Posted on Aug 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
From the Grand Rapids Press: GRAND RAPIDS — Charles Ardingo, a longtime union organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, has won an $819,614 award in a jury trial against the union. In a case filed in December 2004, Ardingo claimed former union president Robert Potter and the UFCW illegally fired him for […]
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SEIU’s United Healthcare Workers West division bosses have got some ‘splainin’ to do. They operate the union where Kaiser employees said they didn’t even know a union organizing drive was taking place before they were forced into the union. (In new news, a friend of the Center for Union Facts passed along a note from […]
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Ahh, that political money spigot. From the AP this weekend: It’s becoming something of a tradition: a top political leader in Virginia offering thanks and pledging solidarity with labor unions at the annual political convention of the Virginia AFL-CIO. On Friday, U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., thanked the labor movement for its early and fervent […]
Posted on Aug 17, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Presidential hopeful and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson seems to believe in the 80-20 rule. Or at least he hopes that promising 20 percent union density will get him 80 percent of the way to Big Labor’s political war chest. In a report on the Democrats’ bids to please labor, the Associated Press includes this […]
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While SEIU leaders are taking their members in the patient care sector out on strike, it’s worth hearing from employees who are currently being pitched the union’s services. Two letters to the editor of a California paper tell the story. The first letter decries “the unbelievable garbage” the union was spewing “to try and get […]
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Good grief. Sometimes it seems there is no line a union boss won’t cross (except, oddly, a picket line). SEIU “leaders” are taking members who staff Connecticut centers for the mentally retarded on strike. A spokesman for the care centers said: “In our opinion, the union has asked for things which we simply can’t afford […]
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In the Rocky Mountain News: Peel back the label of all the top Democratic presidential contenders, and they want you to see two words in big, bold letters: “Union made.”
Posted on Aug 16, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Union officials — particularly those seeking to represent low-skilled employees — have a problem with the immigration issue. Certainly that is true for SEIU, which seems to enjoy the idea of illegal immigration. It’s also true for UFCW, which has seen one of its own organizers arrested for harboring illegal aliens. But now into the […]
