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Labor News
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(CNSNews.com) - The Department of Labor said the number of cases of embezzled union dues has increased over the last year.
The Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) recently released its enforcement data. The totals for fiscal year 2008 - which began on Oct. 1, 2007 - now stand at 49 convictions, 57 indictments, and court-ordered restitution of $1,251,798.
According to the Labor Department, "The bulk of the cases involved the embezzlement of union funds.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
A federal arbitrator ruled Monday that RNs represented by the California Nurses Association at San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center are eligible for a rollback of extra health-care benefits charges, which "could run into the millions of dollars," the nurses union said March 18.
The ruling by arbitrator John Kagel said CPMC parent Sutter Health illegally violated the terms of their contracts by "unilaterally raising fees and co-pays on health-care benefits," according to the union.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. - A federal judge here has upheld a vote by Foxwoods Resort Casino dealers to unionize, ruling that there was no misconduct by the United Auto Workers before the election in November.
Administrative Law Judge Raymond P. Green concluded that Foxwoods did not prove union organizers intimidated casino workers to get them to vote in favor of joining the UAW.
Friday, March 14, 2008
The United Auto Workers Union can't make its members file yearly objections to using their dues for political activities. So said an administrative judge at the National Labor Relations Board last week. Union officials would do well to forgo an appeal and abide by the decision.
Failure to file an objection notice, for whatever reason, grants union leaders automatic consent to spend the dues as they see fit. The judge's ruling means that if a worker says no once, the union should abide by his wishes until he says otherwise. It's his money.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Contra Costa County has averted a nurses strike at its regional medical center in Martinez and also at its clinics.
The approximately 500 nurses represented by the Oakland-based California Nurses Association were originally set to stage a strike from March 21 to 24 in conjunction with one organized by the union at Sutter Health affiliate hospitals. Instead, the nurses and the county reached a deal late Wednesday night to avoid the strike, and will continue negotiations.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Nearly 300 court-related and court-appointed Westmoreland County employees overwhelmingly voted to leave their long-time bargaining unit and form a new labor union.
The workers, who include deputy sheriffs, court staff and office workers in many court-related departments at the courthouse, will form an independent organization called the Westmoreland County Court-Related Employees Association.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) — A seven-term Democratic state assemblyman and former president of the nation's largest municipal labor council pleaded guilty Friday to racketeering, admitting he took tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks and forced union members to hang his Christmas lights.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
MASON, Ohio, March 6 (UPI) -- The uniform supply company Cintas Corp. filed a racketeering lawsuit against two labor unions Wednesday in federal court in New York.
Cintas accuses the UNITE HERE and Teamsters unions of attempting to force the Ohio company to credit them as the singular bargaining advocate for its workers, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Following up on our earlier post about the budget of the Office of Labor Management Standards, we note these enforcement actions under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act for February...so far.
On February 8, 2008, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Betty Illig, former Secretary-Treasurer for Graphic Communications Workers Local 638-S and the Tri-State District Joint Council, pled guilty to embezzling $145,675 in union funds and submitting false Form LM-3 reports. The plea follows a joint investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office and the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Just 3.7 percent of Virginia's wage and salary workers were union members in 2007, placing the state next-to-lowest in the U.S. in that category.
The number of Virginia workers who belonged to a union declined 10,000 to 129,000 last year, according to a recent news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. An additional 38,000 workers were represented by a union at their main job but were not union members themselves.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
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