New Orleans In the past we’ve tried to suggest that Walmart’s reaction to UFCW’s current organizational efforts are serious and in some cases shrewd, particularly when they pressured their subcontractors at their distribution centers to reinstate workers to avoid obvious unfair labor practice charges in recent months. Coming on the heels of huge publicity for their [...]
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New Orleans In the final action for Craig Becker, the greatest interim NLRB member ever, a decision issued putting a knife in the corporate dodge of forcing workers to sign “arbitrate only” clauses as part of individual agreements, and allowing collective arbitrations and grievances as well as class action suits by multiple workers on employment issues. [...] 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 [...] Little Rock To great fanfare the Machinists and its District Lodge (local union) 751 announced a new precedent setting deal with Boeing in Washington. There was plenty of sugar in this coffee! Reports on the 4-year package included an 8% bump in wages when inflation is now less than 1%, improved pension formulas, a $5000 [...] New Orleans I haven’t been able to bring myself to see, The Help, a movie ostensibly set in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi where a young, white writer gives voice to her African-American maid friends during the Civil Rights era. Fantasy has little appeal for me. I did go to see the Gary [...] |
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