New Orleans The surviving members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a final rulemaking on some “modest” (quoting Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO) changes to election procedures this week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has quickly announced that they will file suit to block the regulations as an [...]
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New Orleans One result of the proposed new NLRB election rules, if and when adopted, may require a shift in post-election strategy. A union will know the results of the election and whether or not the challenged ballots on any unit questions affect the outcome or are aggravations waiting for hearings. Either way this would mean [...] New Orleans Steve Early is a organizer, lawyer, journalist, and without question longtime labor activist in the best, classic sense of the word, which also means he can be a royal pain in the butt to bosses and colleagues alike, a tireless advocate, and one-man jihadist on something he feels strongly about like SEIU and Andy [...] New Orleans In about a month the biggest union election in 2010 will be counted once all of the mail ballots are in from over 40,000 Kaiser Permanente workers who are being polled. Unfortunately this not another milestone of successful union organizing, but hopefully the final major battle in the intense and long standing, [...] Toronto Before Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went to York University to address Dr. Stephanie Ross’ class on Worker Organizations, we me with a friend for a pleasant hour who was a senior executive of one of the largest unions in Canada. We often had this dialogue about where labor stood [...] New Orleans Well, Happy Valentine’s Day! Makes me think of millions of people going out to restaurants, lounges, movies, theaters, and wherever and toasting their sweeties, and then usually not leaving much of a tip later for the servers. Where’s the love? Wherever it might be, it’s not for unions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics [...] |
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