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Labor News
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DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- Workers at eight Dana Corp. (DCNAQ) locations represented by the United Auto Workers ratified a new labor and investment deal that would see retiree health benefits run by union-managed trusts.
UAW members at Dana plants in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas approved the four-year deal by 86%, the UAW said Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The new labor agreement for Southern California grocery workers approved over the weekend contains a cautionary message for employers: Two-tier pay scales are trouble.
Although that approach may slash labor expenses, it also can divide a workforce into groups of haves and have-nots, labor experts say, and it doesn't always turn out to be the cost-saver companies expect.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Axcel Flores was upbeat as he joined thousands of co-workers from Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons supermarkets in voting for a new labor contract that won approval Sunday.
"I'm very happy," said Flores, a supervisor at a Vons in Studio City, where he has worked for 12 years. "We got a pay raise, we got to keep our benefits and we don't have to go on strike."
"You can't ask for anything else," he said. Clutching his 9-month-old son Miguel in one hand and a crumpled copy of the union agreement in the other, he cast his vote in Burbank — one of 25 voting spots throughout the Southland.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Pete Gritton remembers his job interview at Toyota two decades ago.
Interviewing for a human-resources job, Gritton went through the entire interview without one word ever being mentioned.
Union.
Today, Gritton is vice president of human resources at Toyota's North American manufacturing and research offices in Erlanger, and he hears the word "union" a lot more often.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Mercy Medical Center and the Oregon Nurses Association this morning reached tentative agreement on a labor contract that would cover the hospital’s 344 nurses.
The nurses have been working without a contract for about the last year and a half.
Two-thirds of the hospital’s previously nonunionized nurses asked to be represented by the Oregon Nurses Association, which began negotiating with the hospital in May 2006.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Sharp HealthCare nurses who were voting on a new labor contract Thursday said the agreement contains much of what their union had demanded during three months of negotiations, including a system to ensure that Sharp abides by nurse-to-patient ratios required by state law.
“We're happy,” said Maria Guerroro, a nurse at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women, as she left the Four Points by Sheraton San Diego hotel, where voting was taking place. “I think we did better than we thought we would.”
Thursday, July 19, 2007
On strike for more than a month, more than 140 garment workers from Tama Manufacturing rallied Wednesday afternoon at a park in Coplay to celebrate their unity and push for better wages and benefits.
Several workers said they are proud of the solidarity they have displayed -- only five people broke the picket line -- but the prolonged strike is taking a financial toll. Many of them worked at Tama for less than $8 an hour.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has appealed a late June decision by a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge rejecting the casino’s complaint about an election in which dealers voted 324-149 for union representation.
The judge recommended that the United Auto Workers be certified as the dealers’ collective bargaining representative. Trump Plaza sent an exception, or appeal, to the federal agency’s Washington, D.C., office last week, which the board received Tuesday.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
DETROIT — Ron Gettelfinger’s five-year tenure as president of the United Auto Workers has been marked with a shrewd, tough, practical approach to saving automotive jobs and benefits
His biggest challenge lies just ahead: Contract talks begin this week with Detroit’s three automakers, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group.
The talks are widely viewed as the most pivotal since the 1950s, when lush UAW contracts helped create a middle-class lifestyle for blue-collar workers.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The state Department of Labor erred when it awarded unemployment benefits to striking nurses at Lourdes Medical Center in 2004, according to an appeals court ruling.
The issue is now remanded back to the state for further action.
How the case will affect benefits already paid out is not known, according to Wendy Marano, a spokeswoman for the Lourdes Health System.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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