Hospitality Unionization Brings up the Rear

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 [...]

Hospitality Wars Close to Settlement

 

            New Orleans               It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement.  Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item on [...]

Organizers Burden

Bangkok The Organizers’ Forum delegation had two great meetings with organizers and the job before them was stunning and prodigious.  We had the opportunity to meet for several hours with five union organizers working to organize industrial plants along the eastern shore of Thailand.  We also got lucky and our trip coincided with a training [...]

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 [...]

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