March 25, 2021 Little Rock The Amazon warehouse election that is voting by mail ballots now in Bessemer, Alabama has brought a lot of attention to the labor movement, its current standing and future prospects. President Biden stepped up front to support workers’ rights to organize and the value of union membership and on-the-job protection, …
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Pro-Labor are not the Same as Pro-Union Policies
New Orleans To have a number of Democratic candidates for President full-throatily espousing policies that seem to favor labor is so rare that it earned a headline in the New York Times saying, “Democrats Grow Bolder With Pro-Labor Policies.” Hey, that’s got to be good news under any circumstances, so let’s see what it’s …
Great Union Organizing Songs for Labor Day
New Orleans There used to be a bumper sticker saying “Unions: The People Who Brought You Vacation.” Unions definitely brought us all Labor Day. There were years of giant parades, now largely in the United States something for San Francisco, Chicago, and maybe New York City, while the rest of the world celebrates May Day …
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 …
Union Leaders Thinking “Outside the Box”
Shreveport Local 100’s stewards and leaders organized themselves into three different workshops. One focused on schools and head start units, another looked at health care with nursing and community homes, and the last bit hard into contractors and subcontractors for sanitation and janitorial workers. The results were inspiring and exciting. In the report backs one …