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WASHINGTON — Linda Chavez-Thompson, the AFL-CIO's executive vice president, announced her resignation Wednesday, expressing a desire to return to San Antonio after 12 years leading the nation's largest labor federation.
Chavez-Thompson, 63, plans to raise a garden and spend time with family, but she vowed to stay active with labor issues, local causes and political candidates.
But she has no plans to run for office on her own.
"I haven't been able to do anything normal for 30 years," she said. "Because I was attending rallies, conventions, getting arrested — all the things that labor leaders do."
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Imagine being forced to support a group against your will.
Imagine then, the group uses part of your dues to help elect candidates you find ideologically disagreeable.
Who could support such policies? You'd be surprised.
The scenario plays out in Colorado every day. And as unions continue to purchase political power, despite diminishing membership, a new initiative hopes to protect the worker's right to choose.
Nationwide, more than 22 states - almost every neighbor of Colorado - are right-to-work states. And in 2008, voters might see "The Colorado Right To Work Amendment" on the ballot, which would allow an individual worker to choose whether to become part of a union.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Labor unions are asking the Bush administration for an unlikely Labor Day present -- to make it easier for them to organize workers.
The United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers and five other unions petitioned the National Labor Relations Board on Aug. 14 to require employers to bargain with small groups of union members, even if the union doesn't represent a majority of those in the workplace.
Business and NLRB officials say the request is far-fetched. Union leaders disagree, though they lost a similar case last year involving Dick's Sporting Goods, the largest publicly traded sporting goods retailer.
Labor leaders are eager to build membership when only 12 percent of the U.S. workforce is organized and employers and regulators are increasingly anti-union.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards promised Monday that if he is elected president, he would help American workers join unions and protect their right to strike.
"The truth of the matter is, in order to grow and strengthen the middle class in this country, we have to grow and strengthen the organized labor movement," the candidate told hundreds of union supporters gathered at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
Edwards, who had just marched in a Labor Day parade, took the stage in rolled-up-sleeves and blue jeans. He delivered a vigorous, eight-minute speech, in which he ripped the Bush administration and vowed to help working people.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Big labor has set its sights on a big target — the Foxwoods Resort Casino — raising the stakes for workers and management there and possibly at the nearby Mohegan Sun.
As the United Auto Workers union organizers make their push at Foxwoods and the UAW continues to add unions at commercial casinos like the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City, industry analysts said the pressure to organize both tribal and commercial casinos appears likely to increase.
The UAW began organizing dealers and other workers at Foxwoods last spring.
Monday, September 03, 2007
(08-28) 15:51 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Union-represented registered nurses at seven Sutter Health affiliate hospitals in the Bay Area have authorized their contract negotiating teams to call strikes if agreements are not reached.
The union, the California Nurses Association, represents some 5,000 registered nurses at 14 Sutter Health affiliate hospitals in Northern California, and separate contract negotiations are being conducted at 10 of them. It is expected that registered nurses at the three other hospitals involved in negotiations will authorize strikes by week's end.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
ATLANTIC CITY - Dealers at Tropicana Casino and Resort voted in the United Auto Workers as their collective bargaining representative by a sweeping majority Saturday, driven by what they said was the desire for job security at a casino where mass layoffs have occurred since a new owner took over in January.
Tropicana dealers voted 626-157, or 80 percent, in favor of the union. This is the fourth casino where employees have sought UAW representation since March; those at two casinos voted against it.
Monday, August 27, 2007
International Paper and the United Steelworkers of America reached a four-year agreement which sets the framework for bargaining future local labor contracts at 14 of the company's U.S. pulp, paper and packaging mills.
Union members ratified the agreement on Thursday. IP and United Steelworkers of America reached a tentative master agreement on Aug. 15.
Friday, August 24, 2007
The international delivery company DHL violated labor laws by trying to hamper a union organizing campaign at its new Upper Macungie distribution center, an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board alleged today.
DHL engaged in illegal surveillance of the union campaign by stationing security guards and supervisors in an area outside the plant when employees and union organizers were distributing union newsletters in April and May, said Scott C. Thompson, deputy regional attorney with the labor board's Philadelphia office.
Friday, August 24, 2007
A regional director for the independent agency handling federal labor-management disputes last week issued a complaint against the National Labor Relations Board for refusing to recognize the consolidation of four groups of unionized employees into a single bargaining unit.
The Aug. 15 complaint from the head of FLRA's San Francisco region comes just six weeks after the National Labor Relations Board Union first filed an unfair labor practice charge with the FLRA. The union claims that Ronald Meisburg, the board's general counsel, is violating federal labor laws by declining to bargain with representatives of the consolidated unit.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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