New Orleans The top-line numbers from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report on union membership density in the United States for 2015 indicate little change, sort of a “no news is good news” kind of story. Private sector density continued to suck at 6.7% of all private employment, but that was a slight improvement …
Category: Labor Organizing
We Need to Take Advantage of Opportunities for Formal Protest
New Orleans Recently as our family of organizations met for our annual planning meeting and the groups from each sector reported back, the reporter from the union mentioned that one of their goals for the year was taking better advantage of postings at their contractual job sites where they had access to bulletin boards to …
Joint Employer Status Sure is Confusing – and Important!
New Orleans In the world of workers what should be the simplest question to answer is becoming one of the most confusing, and important. The question is: who do I work for? The answer, too often these days, is god only knows? To make matters even more complicated both the National Labor Relations Board and …