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The president of major labor union SEIU, Andy Stern, today called on all 60 members of the Democratic caucus to allow a vote on a health care reform bill, claiming, "There is no such thing as a Republican filibuster."
Monday, October 26, 2009
In the next month, the two remaining HCA Midwest hospitals with union-represented nurses will hold elections intended to remove the bargaining unit.
Lee’s Summit Medical Center, which has about 150 nurses, will hold its decertification election Thursday and Friday. The 272 nurses at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park are scheduled to vote Nov. 19 and 20. Both elections will be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
Monday, October 26, 2009
The union representing 6,000 hotel workers in downtown Chicago and 15,000 hospitality workers in the Chicago area said Friday that contract negotiations in this city are "very, very far from settlement."
The contracts for the 31 hotels expired Aug. 31, the first time in a decade that the hotels and the union have failed to reach an agreement near the settlement deadline, a spokeswoman for Unite Here said. The news comes after 3,000 members of that union voted overwhelmingly Thursday to authorize a strike in San Francisco.
Friday, October 23, 2009
ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn., (WVLT) - Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 205 overwhelmingly approved a new contract with Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Union members tentatively approved the new contract on Wednesday. It was brought up for a vote Friday evening and according to union officials, a record number of its more than 1,000 hospital employees participated.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Hospital workers at Saint Louise Regional Hospital and four of its sister hospitals are voting today and Saturday on a new contract.
The contract improves wages and benefits and maintains high standards for patient care, according to the Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers, which represents the employees. The agreement was negotiated by the 34 union members who serve on the union bargaining team. It will cover the nearly 2,500 members of the SEIU-UHW who work at the five facilities in a variety of positions, including respiratory care practitioners, certified nursing assistants, licensed vocational nurses, radiology technicians, lab technicians and environmental services workers.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Three west suburban school districts are expected to have normal student transportation on Monday as two sides in a contract dispute resume negotiations.
But bus service could be completely shut down as early as Tuesday in Indian Prairie District 204 and affect up to 5,500 Oswego District 308 students should union drivers call a strike against the First Student school bus firm.
Friday, October 23, 2009
OAK RIDGE — Union workers at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge have ratified a labor contract that averts a potential strike.
“It passed by a vote of 92 percent,” said Mark Naccarato, spokesman for the Service Employees International Union, which represents the workers. “This was a higher rate of participation than we had on the last contract vote three years ago.”
Friday, October 23, 2009
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Officials with the Service Employees International Union confirmed to WVLT Volunteer TV News that they reached a tentative agreement with Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge on Wednesday evening.
According to a news release, union negotiators and officials from hospital worked throughout the day on Wednesday to come to a tentative agreement that affects nearly 1,030 workers in the Secret City.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
President Barack Obama’s rival for the White House last fall will block the confirmation of one of his nominees for the National Labor Relations Board.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, criticized Craig Becker, Obama’s choice for one of the Democratic slots on the board, at a Wednesday, October 21, meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Although the panel approved Becker and two other NLRB nominees, 15-8, McCain said that he would place a “hold” on Becker, denying him and the others a vote by the full Senate.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
(Crain’s) — With contract talks dragging on, the union that represents city hotel workers plans a strike authorization vote next week for employees at four downtown hotels, including the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers.
Negotiators for the hotels and Unite Here Local 1 have yet to agree on new contracts to replace pacts that expired Aug. 31. Health care has emerged as a major sticking point, with the union objecting to hotel proposals to reduce medical benefits and tighten eligibility rules for workers who receive them.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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