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RENO — Nurses at Reno’s two largest hospitals are participating in authorization votes for union representation.
Officials of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association said at least 30 percent of nurses at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center have signed cards requesting union representation.
That threshold allows for a special election to determine union authorization, and a vote is expected to be held within 40 days, union officials said Monday.
St. Mary’s spokesman Josh Charlebois said the signatures still must be verified before an authorization vote is scheduled.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) have each announced their intentions to organize registered nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. Both unions are now actively engaged in soliciting registered-nurse employees to sign authorization cards, a process known as card-check authorization.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Two years after its controversial birth, Change to Win labor federation is making good on its pledge to reinvigorate the labor movement with more expansive and comprehensive organizing targeting tens of thousands of workers, its leaders contend.
But as the group prepares to kick off its second convention here Tuesday, those efforts haven't yet produced a payoff in increased union membership or deeper penetration in existing business sectors.
But as the group prepares to kick off its second convention here Tuesday, those efforts haven't yet produced a payoff in increased union membership or deeper penetration in existing business sectors.
Monday, September 24, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS - When Bakers Local 22 developed a new Health Reimbursement Arrangement plan, the union wanted to see the substantial cost savings go into increased wages and pension contributions for its members.
Monday, September 24, 2007
POMONA - Another attempt to reach a contract agreement with Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has failed, and nurses expect to begin a five-day walkout Wednesday.
"It is a go," said Sue Weinstein, executive director of the Service Employees International Union, Local 121RN, after union and hospital leaders met with a mediator last week.
But despite the union's agreement to essentially drop free family health care from its contract offer, Weinstein said the hospital would not budge.
"The nurses made some compromises, but the hospital said no," she said.
Monday, September 24, 2007
A delegation of registered nurses representing 10 Northern California Sutter Health hospitals who are currently in bargaining will present to Sutter CEO Pat Fry cards signed by a vast majority of the 4,200 RNs, pledging to strike if key issues of patient care and healthcare coverage are not resolved soon.
RN delegations have delivered copies of the cards to the CEOs of their individual hospitals over the last two weeks. This latest action is an attempt by the CNA Sutter nurses to demonstrate their unity and support for their bargaining team’s patient care proposals and that reductions in healthcare and retirement are unacceptable.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Ford Motor Co. introduced the slogan "Quality is Job 1" nearly 20 years ago.
Yesterday at the United Auto Workers union hall just down the road from Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant, beating Gov. Ernie Fletcher was the top priority.
Hundreds of Jefferson County union members came to hear AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka launch the unions' get-out-the-vote efforts they hope will push Democrat Steve Beshear to victory.
"This is the beginning of the end for one of the sorriest chapters in the history of Kentucky," Trumka said. "Because it's the beginning of the end for Ernie Fletcher."
Beating Fletcher is a priority of the unions because of positions he has taken over the years that they view as anti-union.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Big labor did some big-time muscle flexing today, as the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s executive council approved a record $53 million political budget to educate and mobilize voters during this political cycle.
Even though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has not yet been able to muster a two-thirds majority to back a presidential candidate, it promised to deploy more than 200,000 political volunteers next year to knock on doors and make phone calls – both to educate voters and to get them out to vote.
“Today the A.F.L.-C.I.O. is sending a powerful message that we are going to change the course of our country in 2008,” the labor federation’s president, John J. Sweeney, said after the executive council met in Washington. “America’s workers are more energized than ever before.”
Friday, September 21, 2007
An EPIC-MRA statewide survey of Michigan workers shows many similarities in the views of union and non-union workers, while there are also key differences. Given many responses to key survey questions, there seems to be a strong recognition among both union and non-union workers that many achievements of labor unions representing their members improved the lives of non-union workers and their families. It is also clear that both union and non-union workers believe that union workers receive better pay and benefits than non-union workers.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
ATLANTIC CITY - Two unions have moved to represent security officers and slot technicians at Tropicana Casino and Resort following an August election in which dealers voted in one of them, the United Auto Workers, by a sweeping majority.
The International Union of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America filed papers with the National Labor Relations Board to represent 130 full- and part-time security officers, who will vote on the matter Oct. 10. The UAW filed a petition with the agency to represent 23 full- and part-time slot technicians at the casino, the board confirmed Tuesday, although no election date has been set.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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