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A federal labor official cleared the path Wednesday for table dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino to vote on whether to unionize, a victory for the United Auto Workers, which is trying to organize 3,000 dealers at the southeastern Connecticut casino.
The decision by Peter B. Hoffman, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, rejected arguments from the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, which had contended that the NLRB does not have jurisdiction over the casino on its reservation.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
NEW HAVEN - An independent arbitrator has ordered Yale-New Haven Hospital to pay $4.5 million to the union trying to organize workers at the hospital as well as to employees who were set to vote in a secret ballot election last year.
SEIU called the union vote off last December after Yale-New Haven was cited for violating the terms of a fair election agreement crafted by both sides as a condition for the city's fast-track approval of a new cancer center. In a decision Tuesday, arbitrator Margaret Kern said the hospital ruined any chance for a fair election by intimidating union supporters and spreading misinformation.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Thousands of Northern California nurses began a two-day strike Wednesday at 15 hospitals in the region's largest such labor action in a decade.
With chants of "patients first, not profits," picketing began at 7 a.m. at 13 Bay Area hospitals and two hospitals near Sacramento. The Bay Area hospitals are owned by Sutter Health, a non-profit network of hospitals and doctors' groups.
Up to 5,000 nurses, represented by the California Nurses Association, voted to strike after the breakdown last week of months-long contract negotiations with several Sutter hospitals.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The National Labor Relations Board has issued dozens of labor-law rulings in recent days, including a major decision that would limit unions' ability to organize workers.
The decisions come in a push to clear up cases before the terms of several members expire. Organized labor, which has long criticized the board under the Bush administration, charges that the recent activity is a partisan push, following several decisions reversing rulings made during the Clinton administration. Three of the board's five members are Republicans; the terms of two Republican and one Democratic board member are set to expire soon.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Most of the nurses employed by the Novato Community Hospital could walk out today to participate in a two-day strike while replacements take over their duties. According to a local union representative, the hospital had been prepared to strike back with a one-day lockout, before withdrawing the threat early Monday.
The negotiation theater at the city's largest hospital is a local manifestation of a labor dispute that Sutter Health claims is a union power-grab throughout the Bay Area, and the California Nurses Association says is a response to the hospital network's stalling tactics. But contradictions in both sides' claims indicate it'll take a substantial transfusion of goodwill before progress can be made between them.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees who don't want to be unionized have 45 days to build up support for a government-monitored decertification vote even if a company agrees to a card check campaign and the union wins, the National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday.
In a 3-2 vote, the NLRB decided to give anti-union employees a chance to object to unionization and demand a secret ballot election even if the company agreed to a card check campaign on formation of a union.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Following the lead of the United Auto Workers, the International Union of Operating Engineers is trying to organize about 200 workers into a union at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
The union, which has a Local 30 branch in Stamford, has been focused for the past month or so on collecting signatures on union-authorization cards from maintenance engineers at Foxwoods, said Rich Bonzani, the union's director of organizing for the Northeast region. He hopes to file a petition for an election with the federal government in another month's time, he said.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The nursing union at Eastern Maine Medical Center rejected the hospital negotiating team’s final contract offer Sunday afternoon and announced its intention to call a one-day strike. The official strike notice is expected this morning, both sides said Sunday night. By law, the union must give the hospital 10 days to prepare for the walk-out.
The nurses’ three-year contract with EMMC was due to expire at midnight on Sunday.
Monday, October 01, 2007
United Parcel Service Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have come to a tentative agreement on a new five-year national contract.
Atlanta-based UPS (NYSE: UPS) has 240,000 full- and part-time union employees. The company bases its airlines division in Louisville and operates its largest package-handling hub at Louisville International Airport.
Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said the agreement raises wages and will boost the company's contributions to funds that provide pension and health and welfare benefits to union members, according to a report by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Monday, October 01, 2007
The oldest manufacturing company in town wants to build on-site bunkhouses for replacement workers as its contract with union laborers nears its end.
But Gunite Corp.’s zoning request for up to 10 sleeping trailers with space for 96 temporary workers faces steep obstacles after a cool reception earlier this month from the Rockford Zoning Board of Appeals.
Gunite’s representatives told the city that they needed a contingency plan for maintaining production if the United Auto Workers Local 718 strikes when its contract expires Nov. 17.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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