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DETROIT, Sept. 18 — Negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers stalled Monday night, as bargainers again went home without reaching a tentative agreement on a new contract to replace the pact that expired early Saturday.
The two sides recessed around 9 p.m. Eastern time, a G.M. spokeswoman said, after a relatively short 10-hour session. Talks resumed this morning, amid the acknowledgment from union leaders that the pace of negotiations needed to pick up in order for a deal to be reached.
In a memo sent to union locals around the country, Ron Gettelfinger, the U.A.W.’s president, and Cal Rapson, the vice president in charge of negotiations with G.M., said the union faced difficult decisions.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
POMONA - Nurses at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center will begin a five-day strike next week to protest stalled negotiations over such issues as health-care benefits and job security.
The union, representing 1,000 nurses at Pomona Valley, notified hospital officials of the strike, which is scheduled to begin 7 a.m. Sept. 26 and end at 6:59 a.m. Oct. 1.
Negotiations between the hospital and Service Employees International Union, Local 121RN began in April.
In August, the hospital made an offer union officials said members would not ratify, leading to a one-day strike Sept. 6.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
As the standoff continues between University administration and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, the question of how long each side can hold its ground becomes a key issue.
The strike, which began on the second day of classes, is now in its 14th day. In 2003, the clerical workers branch, the AFSCME Local 3800, went on strike for 16 days in late October and early November before settling.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Direct communication between a company and its union employees can be a touchy subject, especially during contract talks. A local union charged one St. Joseph employer with violating labor laws related to that, but the company was ultimately exonerated.
The National Labor Relations Board in Washington last month reversed a previous ruling and dismissed a complaint against Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc., an animal health company.
The charge was brought in 2004 by United Food and Commercial Workers District Union Local 2 of Kansas City, which represented about 150 employees at the St. Joseph business.
Monday, September 17, 2007
DETROIT -- Thousands of hourly workers at General Motors Corp. faced an uncertain Monday as contract talks continued into the early morning without an agreement.
Bargaining started at 11 a.m. EDT Sunday with several local United Auto Workers leaders saying they had been told progress had been made over the weekend. But the leaders, some of whom requested anonymity because the talks are private, said they were told to prepare for a strike if the talks broke off.
Monday, September 17, 2007
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Machine operator Mike Walton remembers arriving at work that Monday morning in September 2005.
He recalls walking toward the entrance to Mac-It Corp., which had hired him just seven months earlier, only to be greeted by fellow employees holding picket signs.
"Everybody was standing out there," Walton said. "They said, 'We're striking.' I said, 'Well, you guys are. I'm working.'"
With that, the admittedly "hard-headed" 21-year-old crossed the picket line and went inside the East Liberty Street plant to his metal-cutting machine as usual, undeterred by being called a "scab," sneers, profanities and threats.
"I didn't strike because I didn't like what the union was about," he said.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Once he completes his takeover of Dow Jones later this year, News Corp. head honcho Rupert Murdoch will have a lot of things on his plate. Labor strife probably won’t be one of them.
The board of the union representing about 2,000 employees at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and other Dow Jones (nyse: DJ - news - people ) business units said Sunday that it is recommending approval of a new three-year contract that it reached with company negotiators last week.
Sunday, September 16, 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.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The movement for workers’ rights in Atlantic City will move forward, United Auto Workers (UAW) leaders said, following Saturday's vote against union representation by cashiers at Caesars casino.
Sixty-five percent of those participating in the election voted against union representation, while 35 percent voted in favor. “The result of one election is not going to slow down a growing movement for worker rights in Atlantic City,” said Joe Ashton, director of UAW Region 9, which includes New Jersey. “We’ve had five organizing wins here so far this year. Dealers, keno and simulcast employees at Caesar’s are bargaining with management right now, and workers at other houses are getting ready to bargain.”
Saturday, September 15, 2007
The president of the nation's largest labor federation says unions are poised to gain ground in Wyoming.
Blue-collar occupations in construction and mining have been among the fastest growing employment segments in the state in recent years.
In a historic visit to Wyoming, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said construction trades have long maintained strong unions.
In recent years, he said the federal government has cut back on enforcement of health and safety regulations at mines, and incidents like the recent disaster at the non-union Crandall Canyon mine in Utah will prompt workers to take another look organizing.
"I really think it's going to make workers in unorganized mines look now to organization," he said.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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