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CVS Caremark Corp. is challenging an attempt by a union coalition to reach out to retail pharmacy workers in southern New Jersey.
The Put Pharmacy First campaign has been courting retail pharmacists nationwide who object to "the influence of 'fast food pharmacy' practices that put profits ahead of patients," according to its Web site. Behind the campaign are unions belonging to the Change to Win Federation, whose membership includes the United Food and Commercial Workers and the Service Employees International Union.
Monday, October 05, 2009
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In a settlement that is essentially a plea bargain with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which conducted a two-month investigation into massive illegal conduct, MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, and its parent company, the giant HCA chain, have pledged to end their surveillance, interrogation, bribery, threats, and other unfair treatment of registered nurses.
Monday, October 05, 2009
BREWSTER, MASS.—The formation of the largest RN union and professional association in U.S.
history took another major step forward Thursday as members at the annual convention of the
Massachusetts Nurses Association cast an overwhelming vote to endorse affiliation with the new national
union.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
SMITHFIELD — Smithfield Foods Inc. is denying claims that it engaged in unfair labor practices with the union that represents workers at the company's soon-to-close South packing plant.
In a formal response to charges filed by the National Labor Relations Board, Smithfield asserts that the union — Food Processors Local 1046 — is defunct and no longer the bargaining unit for South Plant workers who will transfer to the adjacent North Plant.
Further, the company states, the union's "bad faith excuses any duty on the part of (Smithfield) to bargain.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
NORTH ADAMS -- The National Labor Relations Board began looking into charges of unfair labor practices at Sweet Brook Nursing Home in Williamstown this week, when it held a hearing in Northern Berkshire District Court.
The hearing took place on Tuesday and Thursday. It will be continued on Nov. 3-5.
Monday, September 28, 2009
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup finds organized labor taking a significant image hit in the past year. While 66% of Americans continue to believe unions are beneficial to their own members, a slight majority now say unions hurt the nation's economy. More broadly, fewer than half of Americans -- 48%, an all-time low -- approve of labor unions, down from 59% a year ago.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Can Sustainability Initiatives
Survive in a Tough Economy?
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Union bosses who have mismanaged benefits for their own members are poised to receive a $10 billion bailout from U.S. taxpayers in the form of a “reinsurance program” that has been folded into the healthcare bill, according to the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI).
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Yale‐New
Haven
Hospital
agreed
to
pay District
1199
of
SEIU
Healthcare
$2
million
as
a
penalty
for
violating
a
city-brokered
agreement
over
how
to
behave
during
the
run‐up
to
a
unionizing
election.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Andy Stern, president of the 2.5-million-member Service Employees International Union, launched a national petition drive today to insist that both the House and Senate schedule an up or down vote on allowing workers to form a union by majority signup, either as part of the Employee Free Choice Act or as a separate amendment.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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