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There is a tendency among U.S. trade union leaders, shop stewards and rank-and-file activists to strongly distrust federal and state agencies charged with protecting workers’ health and safety — and therefore not to utilize them.
While there are good grounds for suspecting government agencies of anti-worker bias and wrongdoing, there are also ample reasons for not allowing big employers and right-wing political officials to destroy the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its counterparts on the state level.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Thousands of registered nurses are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday and Friday at 13 Bay Area hospitals, marking their second strike in just over two months.
The strike would primarily affect hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health, a nonprofit network of hospitals and doctors' groups.
Those planning to walk off their jobs include about 650 nurses in San Mateo County at Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame and Mills Health Center in San Mateo.
Those two local facilities, which are operated by MillsPeninsula Health Services and affiliated with Sutter Health, have hired replacement nurses to care for patients during the strike.
They plan to keep hospital doors open and do business as usual, hospital officials said.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
International labor leaders are meeting in Washington as part of a global push to make it easier for unions to organize U.S. workers.
But their efforts face hurdles in the face of opposition from the White House and some lawmakers. Efforts at concerted global action to change the labor landscape in the U.S. are also nascent, and unions have seen limited gains from international cooperation.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
DETROIT – Before a panel of state lawmakers, several Detroit Medical Center nurses testified to being victims of anti-union practices and workplace intimidation in a special hearing Friday, Nov. 30.
The hearing, hosted by the Sacred Heart Church Activity Center, was the second held by members of the House of Representatives Labor Committee, who are gathering evidence in support of a proposed employee rights bill.
The legislation would bolster a year-long struggle by the DMC nurses to address working conditions through collective bargaining. The DMC Organizing Committee for Change has filed a petition for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Bus drivers for the Bozeman School District and Streamline public bus system voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of joining a labor union. The election, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, resulted in a 35-15 vote in favor of unionization, according to both sides.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Registered nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno voted Thursday night to join the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, one of the nation's feistiest and fastest growing labor unions, the Oakland-based CNA said Friday.
The vote was 252 to 141 in a secret ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, according to the CNA, which said it will begin representing 500 nurses at the hospital, part of the San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West hospital system. The union says it now represents more than 10,000 RNs at 26 CHW hospitals.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Management at Foxwoods Resort Casino entered formal objections Monday to a union vote by table game dealers, asserting that federal labor law doesn't apply to the tribal casino while also claiming the election was tainted by union officials who engaged in unlawful tactics.
The objections, filed with the National Labor Relations Board office in Hartford, challenge the results of a federally supervised election Nov. 24. Foxwoods' blackjack, poker and other table game dealers voted to have the United Auto Workers union represent them.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
DETROIT — At the kickoff to the United Auto Workers negotiations with Detroit automakers last summer, union President Ron Gettelfinger insisted the new contracts would not stray radically from past versions.
But labor experts say the four-year contracts with General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F) and Chrysler are indeed transformational. And they could reverberate throughout the manufacturing sector and even into the public sector as companies and government bodies look for ways to alter their cost structures.
The UAW agreed to some radical changes, including taking control of retiree health care and allowing lower wages for new workers.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The California Nurses Association has delivered a 10-day strike notice to Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California for a strike that could take place Dec. 13 and 14, reprising an earlier two-day walkout in October.
Strike notices were sent Friday to some of the biggest hospitals in the region, including California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley and Oakland, and Burlingame's Peninsula Medical Center, the CNA/National Nurses Organizing Committee said late Friday.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Jim Kabell was frustrated and disappointed. He stood in front of a mostly empty Teamsters hall to introduce a very important speaker.
At least that's what he thought.
The agenda featured a rousing speech about the increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots and what working people can do about growing inequality in this country.
Kabell had been excited. It would remind people of their power to come together and make things happen.
He'd expected between 200 and 400 people to come hear Tom Woodruff, executive director of the Service Employees International Union and the organizing director of Change to Win, a new coalition of unions seeking to increase union membership and their political clout.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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