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Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act - Why is the current recession so deep, and what can be done to reverse it?
Hint: Go back about 50 years, when America’s middle class was expanding and the economy was soaring. Paychecks were big enough to allow us to buy all the goods and services we produced. It was a virtuous circle. Good pay meant more purchases, and more purchases meant more jobs.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS) announced today it has appealed the ruling issued March 9th, 2009 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing the company`s federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and trademark infringement claims against the labor unions UNITE HERE, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Change to Win.
Friday, May 01, 2009
The nation’s two major labor federations have agreed for the first time to join forces to
support an overhaul of the immigration system, leaders of both organizations said on
Monday. The accord could give President Obama significant support among unions as he
revisits the stormy issue in the midst of the recession.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sometimes even unions have union problems.
Dozens of employees of the Service Employees International Union picketed their own union Friday over its decision to lay off about 75 workers.
The staffers marched outside SEIU headquarters in Washington as they yelled into bullhorns, passed out flyers and chanted, "Justice for all, not just some."
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Teamster organizers from throughout North America have descended upon Washington,
D.C. for the sixth annual Teamsters
Organizers Conference at the Hyatt
Regency on Capitol Hill. For organizers who spend most of their year helping workers achieve better working conditions, the
conference is aptly themed, “Teamsters:
Delivering Hope to America’s Workers.” The three-day conference features a packed schedule of speakers, workshops, lobbying
and a demonstration for the more than 350 attendees.
Friday, March 27, 2009
With the braying of 328 yahoos -- members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate the legal earnings of a small, unpopular group -- still reverberating, the Obama administration yesterday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A lengthy union battle to organize nurses at Louisville's Norton Audubon Hospital Poplar Level Road has come to a halt.
Friday, March 20, 2009
The National Nurses Organizing Committee, the largest nurses union in the United States, opened its first office in Ohio Wednesday. Union leaders say they will use it to invigorate their push to improve working conditions for nurses and health care for every one.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country's fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off.
The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU's national field staff members and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
March 11, 2009: A federal judge in New York March 9 dismissed Cintas Corp.'s racketeering and trademark infringement claims against UNITE HERE, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and their labor federation Change to Win (Cintas Corp. v. UNITE HERE, S.D.N.Y., No. 08cv2185, 3/9/09).
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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