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Labor News
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. – As U.S. auto workers negotiate with the faltering Big Three under intense pressure to surrender benefits, employees at Toyota's flagship U.S. plant want what their blue-collar counterparts in Detroit have: union representation.
At least some do. Union drives at Toyota's Georgetown, Kentucky, plant have ebbed and flowed since it opened in 1988, with supporters battling to convince doubters that joining the United Auto Workers union will improve their lives.
Monday, July 30, 2007
The union representing employees of a private ambulance company that serves 40 New England communities called off today's strike after reaching a tentative agreement with American Medical Response yesterday, parties from both sides announced.
"We reached a tentative agreement this afternoon," company spokeswoman Deborah Hileman said. "We expect them to report as scheduled."
Monday, July 30, 2007
Cincinnati janitors who clean most of downtown's office buildings have their first labor contract.
The contract between the Service Employees International Union representing about 1,200 janitors and the area's eight largest cleaning companies was signed Saturday. The contract goes into effect in October.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Union is in the cards for nurses in the NCH Healthcare System.
That’s the preliminary finding of a union pledge card drive and two meetings attended by more than 300 NCH nurses on Thursday at the Bellasera Hotel in Naples.
And by next week the 67 members of the NCH Nurse Organizing Committee hope to have collected more than enough pledge cards from the hospital system’s 900-member nursing staff to begin the process of forming a nurses union in Naples — the first of its kind in Southwest Florida.
Monday, July 30, 2007
About 1,000 employees of a private ambulance company that serves 40 communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Eastern Massachusetts are threatening to strike tomorrow if union and company negotiators cannot reach contract agreement today.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
OAKLAND, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Teamsters Local 70 and Waste Management Inc. (WMI) of Alameda County reached a tentative agreement that pending a ratification vote by the membership on Saturday, July 28 will end the lockout and return the 481 workers to their jobs servicing the East Bay area.
"This was a long process, but we believe worth the effort," said Chuck Mack, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 70. "The negotiating committee fully endorses this proposal, is optimistic and will recommend ratification."
Friday, July 27, 2007
Analysts expect Ford Motor Co. to report its eighth quarterly loss in a row Thursday, though Ford's plight could help the three domestic auto manufacturers build a stronger case for concessions in negotiations with the United Auto Workers union.
Ford lost $12.6 billion last year and doesn't expect to show a profit until 2009, putting it in the most precarious position of the domestics. General Motors Corp., which will report second-quarter results Tuesday, is the only one expected to make money this year.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
DETROIT — Edward Sioui has always been able to make a living in Michigan without a college degree. So in July 2001, when his mom had a heart attack in Arizona, he figured it would be easy to pick up, move near her, and maybe enjoy living in a warmer climate for a while.
Exactly 364 days later, frustrated by his meager paychecks and sweltering in the desert heat, he and his wife, Debbie, headed back to Michigan.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
ATLANTIC CITY — Employees at the world’s largest gaming company and owner of four Atlantic City casinos are once more part of a union organizing drive — for the fourth time in nearly six months.
The United Auto Workers union filed papers Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board to represent 160 full- and part-time cashiers and pit clerks and 33 full- and part-time slot technicians at the Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. property Caesars Atlantic City. Filing a petition with the agency is the first step toward setting a union election date, and the UAW typically requires authorization cards from 60 percent to 65 percent of workers before doing so.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
DETROIT — To many outside the auto industry, getting rid of the so-called jobs bank — a job-security program that continues to pay union workers almost their entire salaries even if there isn't work for them — seems like a no-brainer.
But as talks on new contracts open between the Detroit automakers and their biggest union, the United Auto Workers, it appears the jobs bank may not be a negotiating issue this time around. The automakers are focused on slashing health care costs, and the union has made it clear that job security is not something it will give up easily.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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