New Orleans Kenneth Stretcher faxed me an article from the September 2010 edition of Labor Notes knowing that I would be desperate to read it, and I was. The piece was “Should Non-majority Unions Have a Right to Bargain?” by Judy Atkins and David Cohen both of the UE. They speculate that with a full …
Month: September 2010
Bet on SEIU in West Coast Family Feud
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, bloody …
Wal-Mart Still Trying to Put Off Dukes
New Orleans Next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Dukes vs. Wal-Mart suit seeking to rectify the damage that comes from the company’s systematic discrimination against women workers. The latest company dodge comes by way of an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court of the 9th Circuit decision to create a million …