Posted on Aug 16, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
In case you harbored doubts, union bosses are thinking big and they are thinking well beyond the 2008 presidential race: The executive council also made it clear that labor’s involvement in the electoral arena will go well beyond the 2008 elections. Labor is getting ready to plunge into the battles for control of state legislatures, […]
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Sen. Barack Obama won’t be making the trek to the Machinists forum — interesting that he’s avoiding a forum for the only major union promising to endorse both a Democrat and a Republican for the primaries (at least 35% of IAM’s membership is Republican.)
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Over at Shopfloor.org, with more at EFCA Updates.
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Another story of unhappy UFCW members comes from my beloved Portland, where employees of a food co-op store don’t think they’re getting their money’s worth: … Arabee Koch, a Food Front employee of eight years, says the UFCW hasn’t done enough for the employees to justify keeping union representation. Koch says the union only impedes […]
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SEIU’s Andy Stern is playing the class warfare card again, taking aim at “tax dodges” by private equity groups. It makes for good rhetoric, but it’s little more than a politically motivated effort to drive a wedge where none need exist. In fact, with his members’ money tied up in pensions that rely on hefty […]
Posted on Aug 15, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The New York Times today covered another attempt by union officials to stave off declining membership. They’re asking the National Labor Relations Board to re-institute a long-since-dead practice that requires employers to bargain with a group of employees — even if that group doesn’t represent a majority of employees. Most interesting is this point, which […]
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Looks like the people who clean up after Orioles games want to go on strike — hunger strike. The tactic is becoming so commonplace that it could well lose its flavor.
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Following up on yesterday’s first installment of a series, the Detroit News today looks at how much union bosses should be paid. UFCW members should take note — the paper uses UFCW as an example of overly generous wages: As president of the United Auto Workers, Gettelfinger is one of the hardest working and most […]
