Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …
Category: Labor Organizing
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back for Bangladesh Workers
Rock Creek Following the tragic garment fire fatalities and in the wake of European action finally joined by the United States in recent weeks, the Bangladesh government has finally issued new labor codes for workers in the country. The results are disappointing despite the obvious hopes of the government that this meager effort would seem …
Ending the NLRB’s “Non-Admissions” Policy
Toronto In long established practice when unions prove conclusively that companies have broken the National Labor Relations Act and unjustly discriminated against a worker for union activity through discipline or termination, and there is a settlement, the company signs a “non-admissions” statement, saying that they are not admitting guilt even though they are promising not …