Posted on Oct 17, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Smithfield Foods — long the target of an anti-corporate smear campaign by greedy union bosses looking for another buck — have decided they are mad as hell, and they are not going to take it anymore. They have launched a major counter-attack, filing a civil racketeering case against the union. Excerpts from Dow Jones: Smithfield […]
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From the Associated Press, whose reporter wonders if maybe there wasn’t a little theater involved in the half-hearted strikes by the United Auto Workers against the domestic auto makers: “It’s hard to know what the real rationale was for the strikes, but it seems they were something designed to show that what the automakers and […]
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It’s not often the Center for Union Facts finds ground with the Socialists, but it happens more often than you might think when the issue is how major modern unions treat their employees. So there’s something worth perusing over from the Socialist Worker Online, where an article starts thusly: IN AUGUST, the executive board of […]
Posted on Oct 16, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The chiefs of the United Food and Commercial Workers union continue to stonewall against a real election for employees of the Smithfield food company. According to one local paper, these are the points the company offered during negotiations: All employees would be informed of the election process at a joint meeting held by Smithfield and […]
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SEIU bosses have called in the heavy hitters to aid their campaign to unionize Boston’s teaching hospitals. Not only have they lined up support from the city’s mayor — quite some feat for unions in a Democratic town — but they have pulled off the coup of landing Ben Affleck, star of such hits as […]
Posted on Oct 15, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Congratulations are due California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as all farm workers, after the Termination of SB 180, which would have ended secret ballot elections for the state’s farm workers. It’s the first step in the national fight over securing workplace democracy and defeating the Orwellian named “Employee Free Choice Act.” UPDATE: From NAM’s […]
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From a reader: The Carpenter’s Union in Chicago has no elections for Business Agents. The only elections they hold are for powerless positions. We need to have free elections for B.A.’s and District Council Board members(not D C delegates) The Union has sold so many Union Cards over the years, that they have created a […]
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Members of the behemoth known as Service Employees International Union Local 1000 in California aren’t happy about having their dues and fees schedule jacked to Kingdom Come by union officials. Now some people who pay an unfair share fee — people who are forced to pay for union “services” even though they don’t want to […]
