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Crawfishing on Employee Choice

New Orleans A full page ad ran in my local paper in New Orleans thanking Senator Mary Landrieu from SEIU.  Must be reverse psychology, because Louisiana’s senior senator is just leaving workers twisting in the wind or worse.  A friend in a sister local told me the other day that she had run into [...]

SEIU’s Good Obama Bet

Andy Stern, SEIU

New Orleans Recent press reports and a big story in the Wall Street Journal have been sniping at the huge $85M set of contributions that the Service Employees International Union made on the Obama campaign. On one hand they seem to be insinuating crass influence buying and on the other [...]

Employee Free Choice Compromises

St. Petersburg Meeting with the WARN (Worker Action and Research Network) staff yesterday in St. Pete, we found ourselves talking about Wal-Mart and the organizing challenge represented by huge retail employers like W-M in the US and Canada. All of which brings up the daunting issue of labor law reform and [...]

Becker to the NLRB

New Orleans Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it:  Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)!  This is not to say that we do not need labor law reform desperately, but having crossed paths with Craig for more [...]

Retaliation

New York City The Management Council of the ACORN family of organizations was having our spring meeting (though given the freezing temperatures maybe we should rename the season!) in New York as we usually do. For many years we have enjoyed the hospitality of Bob Masters and [...]

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