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JACKSON, Miss. -- First Student bus drivers in Hinds County began a strike Thursday morning, according to Hinds County school officials.
School officials are asking as many parents as possible to take their kids to school; if not officials are asking for parents to car pool.
School officials are planning to run all of the bus routes with the bus drivers who do show up to work. Students and parents can expect delays up to a hour and a half.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
SANTA CRUZ — Frustrated by prolonged contract negotiations, the California Nurses Association on Monday announced a one-day strike at Dominican Hospital starting 7 a.m. Oct. 30.
The strike, ending at 7 a.m. Oct. 31, will affect two-dozen hospitals affiliated with Catholic Healthcare West and three others affiliated with Daughters of Charity, including O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, Seton Medical Center in Daly City and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A vote to unionize caregivers for the developmentally disabled failed Monday by an overwhelming margin.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Families across the Southland are waiting for the counting to begin in a vote to unionize workers in a state program that funds the care of disabled residents.
More than 3,000 people statewide mailed in their ballots this month. Their options were to join the Service Employees International Union, join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees or opt for no union representation at all.
The vote came after Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order this summer making way for organizing this group of workers.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Without a union contract for over two years, nursing home workers in Hudson County are holding a "Family Day" march in rally in Jersey City tomorrow to put pressure on their employer.
This comes after a three-day strike in August and a rally in Journal Square last month.
The workers -- members of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union -- plan to gather at 11 a.m. in front of 26 Journal Square, the headquarters of their employer, Omni Assets Management.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Richard Trumka—coal miner, lawyer and new president of the AFL-CIO—took the stage after his election at the federation’s Pittsburgh convention in mid-September to the strains of the defiant Tom Petty refrain, “I’m going to stand my ground, and I won’t back down.” Clearly, Trumka wanted to convey a new style of labor leadership, one tougher and more militant than that of the genial outgoing president John Sweeney.
Friday, October 16, 2009
NEWARK -- The Teamsters want to organize 8,000 fleet service workers at Continental Airlines in a bid to push the number of unionized workers at the nation's fourth-largest airline past the halfway mark.
The time is right to organize ramp, cargo and customer services workers at the Houston-based company, International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Jim Hoffa said at a rally today.
Friday, October 16, 2009
OLYMPIA - About 500 Providence St. Peter Hospital workers represented by the Service Employees International Union walked off the job Thursday, largely to call attention to rising employee health care costs.
The workers – mostly housekeepers, dietary workers, admitting clerks, health unit coordinators and some licensed practical nurses and surgical technicians – began the strike at 6 a.m. outside the hospital and were expected to continue until midnight. Just before noon, about 60 workers took part in the walkout at Lilly and Ensign roads. Some held signs that read, “Protect patients, not profits,” while other signs read, “Invest in us, invest in patients.”
Friday, October 16, 2009
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Hundreds of nurses and other hospital workers at Providence St. Peter Hospital staged a one-day strike Thursday.
The hospital employees, some 500 members the Service Employee International Union's Healthcare 1199NW, set up a picket line at the hospital at 6 a.m. and planned the job action to end just before midnight.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
SANTA ROSA – With a six-year unionization effort at stake, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has become a battlefield in a rivalry between national labor giant Service Employees International Union and a fledgling group of its former Northern California leaders.
In April, about 600 hospital nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, radiology and other health care-related technicians were on track to schedule a union election under a petition with the new group, the National Union of Healthcare Workers. But at the final hour, SEIU intervened and stalled proceedings.
Monday, October 12, 2009
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