New Orleans The backdrop to the great excitement and fight back in Wisconsin, Ohio, and India for the labor movement seems to be a very black curtain that some are trying to pull across the stage. The evidence seems everywhere. Steven Greenhouse, one of the last labor reporters, sounded the death knell in the Times …
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Collective Bargaining Under Attack
New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin. After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a group, so I’ve been inundated with hyperbolic messages that find the pushback in Wisconsin by labor heroic and …
Kaiser Win for SEIU, No Rerun Coming
Mumbai The results of the Kaiser decertification election or what Steve Greenhouse with the NY Times calls the largest single-company private sector election since Ford Motor more than 60 years ago, were an old foot stomping, ass whipping blowout for SEIU. The scorecard was conclusive: 18290 or 61% to 11364 out of 43000 eligible voters. …