Little Rock Sometimes it helps to get a gentle reminder of what we know, but don’t always practice. At our union we live and breathe “majority unionism” by which we mean trying to organize as many workers as we can, in as many ways as we can, with or without demanding direct recognition or collective …
Tag: collective bargaining
NLRB Looking at Free Rider Pay-to-Play Dues Obligation
New Orleans The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) took a step that might be small, but at least seems in the right direction. They have solicited legal briefs, and no doubt there will be many from both the union and management side of the bar, on the question of dues or fee obligations for nonmembers …
Unbelievable: Right-to-Work in Michigan
New Orleans Virtually in the blink of an eye, despite huge divisions on the street and throughout the state, somehow, unbelievably, Michigan is now, like the solid south and some of the West, the 24th state with a so-called “right-to-work” law. The law, signed yesterday, takes effect in the spring of 2013. In fact for …
Half-a-Loaf: The Hard Lessons of Elections
New Orleans As we peel more layers off the onion of the recent election, there’s more good news and more bad, but there are also refresher courses that remind us of lessons we’ve painfully won, but are forced into detention to review yet again. The hardest is often the tough lesson of elections: it is …
Gunning for the Teachers and Their Unions
New Orleans Even as all of us hit the dawn patrol to vote and get out the vote on the US-Election Day, it is sobering to see that the rightwing forces are amassing at the border, regardless of the outcome today, in order to carry the fight into state legislatures around critical issues, like education, …