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Union employees at Giant Food and Safeway supermarkets in the Baltimore-Washington area voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a new four-year contract that largely preserves health care benefits and includes wage increases.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Locals 400 and 27, which represents more than 23,000 workers, voted in separate meetings yesterday at the Baltimore Convention Center and the D.C. Armory.
As workers streamed out of the convention center after voting, many seemed surprised - and relieved - that they were able to hang onto company-paid health care.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Security officers employed by Inter-Con Security Systems Inc. at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Sacramento say they will strike Friday.
The guards, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 24/7, say they want a labor contract with Inter-Con, a privately held company based in Pasadena.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
At the level of business plans and market share, telephone giant Verizon and cable giant Comcast are slugging it out over how people make phone calls, watch TV and use the Internet. Meanwhile, at the level of telephone poles and cable connections, the union that represents many Verizon workers is trying to convince employees at both companies that, ultimately, they have the same interests.
Monday, March 31, 2008
It was back to work Monday for thousands of Bay Area registered nurses who participated in a 10-day regional strike at Sutter Health hospitals, but the fight is far from over, a California Nurses Association spokesman said.
Nurses began striking at 7 a.m. on March 21 because they believe particular work procedures, such as lunch breaks, heavy-lifting policies and nurse health coverage, are not conducive to patient care, CNA spokesman Chuck Idelson said.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Registered nurses at a northwest Harris County hospital voted to unionize late Friday, becoming the only organized RNs among the state's private hospitals in an election that was closely watched in the medical community.
The 119-111 vote to organize registered nurses at Tenet Healthcare-owned Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital with the California Nurses Association was supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.
Friday, March 28, 2008
A survey released this week came to the unsurprising conclusion that people are having a hard time paying for healthcare. The totally nonrandom sample of more than 26,000 people who took the online survey skewed heavily toward the insured (77 percent), unionized (57 percent), college educated (80 percent), and white (86 percent). If anybody should be able to afford healthcare, it would be these folks, right? So it was interesting to see that a third of them said they'd skipped getting necessary medical care because it was too expensive, and half of those with health insurance said it doesn't cover what they need at a price they can afford.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
"This is a terrible menace to rights of free speech and protest, and constitutional rights and freedom of expression."
Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company's business practices? Is it a "conspiracy" if advocates call for boycotts, organize rallies, or press for resolutions from elected bodies?
Smithfield Foods, the largest producer of pork products in the world, is hoping so, after a lawsuit it filed last October passed an initial court challenge. The suit aims to halt the United Food and Commercial Workers' campaign to unionize 4,600 workers in its Tar Heel, North Carolina, slaughterhouse. The company is using a 1970 statute originally designed to battle gangsters' extortion schemes -- the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Iowa would have the widest-reaching union rights for public employees in the nation under a proposal that Democratic leaders pushed through the Legislature during the past week, according to a nonprofit group.
While 27 states allow a wide range of topics to be included in collective bargaining, all have narrower laws for using binding arbitration to resolve disputes than Iowa's pending legislation would provide.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
CHARLOTTE — A massive pork-processing plant near a tiny North Carolina town is the setting for what could be a landmark battle between business and organized labor, according to the April issue of Business North Carolina magazine. The Washington, D.C.-based United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has been battling Virginia-based Smithfield Foods for 16 years over the right to represent workers at the factory near Tar Heel. The union has lost two representation elections during that period but claims the company cheated both times, and it has the backing of the National Labor Relations Board, which has ordered new elections. UFCW wants rules guaranteeing company neutrality with “meaningful sanctions.” The company says the union wants to be able to organize workers without an election, simply by signing cards authorizing it to represent them.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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