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MID-CITY — Two of the harshest critics of Saint John's Health Center have joined forces to shine a light on what they believe to be public health issues and anti-union activity at the Catholic hospital.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Orlando, FL (November 4, 2009) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a local worker is challenging Teamster officials’ efforts to block several UPS employees from opting out of union dues.
Dean Alamo, a Kissimmee resident and UPS freight employee, filed federal unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 385 union and UPS on behalf of himself and similarly situated workers.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
With a secret ballot vote of 68-59, the nurses of Lee’s Summit Medical Center voted Oct. 29-30 to decertify Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee-California Nurses Association as its union.
The National Labor Relations Board oversaw the election.
The vote came following a petition filed July 1 with the National Labor Relations Board and then circulated among the nurses at Lee’s Summit Medical Center.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
SAINT PAUL, Minn., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Formation of the largest nurses' union and professional association in U.S. history took another major step forward Monday with a unanimous endorsement of the affiliation agreement vote by delegates representing 80 percent of the members of the United American Nurses (UAN). Even as a number of state affiliates inexplicably failed to attend the meeting, the national delegate assembly of the UAN moved forward to create the 150,000 member RN "Super Union."
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Unionized nurses in Massachusetts are moving toward affiliating with their counterparts in California and more than 20 other states to create the largest nurses union in US history, a 150,000-member powerhouse that would lobby lawmakers for higher staffing levels and an overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
The move could give the state’s nurses more bargaining power with hospitals and aid organizing efforts at nonunion health care providers such as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. But it is being opposed by some nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and elsewhere who do not want to pay the added dues needed to finance the organization.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
SANTA ROSA, CALIF. – The Oct. 26 hearing intended to schedule the long-awaited union election for Memorial Hospital workers has been delayed until Nov. 2, according to a National Labor Relations Board official who said one of the union’s attorneys could not attend the meeting.
About 600 Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, radiology and other health care-related technicians have tried for more than six years to schedule an election for labor representation, but a clash between two unions both claiming a majority of worker support has caused the latest delay in the proceedings over the last five months.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Private school bus workers that serve the East Penn School District in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania went on strike this morning after overwhelmingly voting down the latest contract offer from First Student. The union is filing unfair labor practice charges against the company this week for changing terms of the workers' employment during contract negotiations.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
POTTSTOWN — The union representing workers negotiating for a contract at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center arrived at a hospital board meeting Monday night with a 400-signature petition calling for a fair contract.
Under the headline "quality care and quality jobs at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center," the petition asks for "quality, affordable healthcare, secure retirement and a fair wage increase."
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
On Monday, after the Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, announced that he would seek a public option in the full Senate health care bill that would give states the right to opt out, Bill Samuel, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s director of government affairs, issued a statement, saying in part:
“We, along with the majority of Americans and many Members of Congress, support a robust public option to bring down costs and keep insurance companies honest. The Senate is making great progress toward that end and we are encouraged by today’s announcement.”
Monday, October 26, 2009
A breakdown in contract negotiations between unionized facilities workers and the University has attracted the attention of Boston College students, who are concerned that the school's treatment of the workers is in violation of its Catholic values.
The 270 involved workers, who are employees in BC's Facilities and Management department, are members of the Local 615 chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The union has been negotiating the employees' contract with the University since May, when their three-year contract expired, but which has been renewed on a month-to-month basis since.
Monday, October 26, 2009
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