Posted on Oct 14, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Despite a significant setback in not getting his soft, slippery lawyer’s hands on SEIU International’s lucrative endorsement, Labor’s Hair Apparent, John Edwards managed to pick up SEIU’s state endorsement for Iowa. That is good news for him. Bad news for employee’s rights … you know, unless you worked in his father’s mill and wanted to […]
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Blogging’s been a little light while we were out making our case against EFCA in Reno. Thanks to our hosts at the Conservative Leadership Conference — in particular Chuck Muth, who expertly herded cats, and Eric Odom who knows a thing or two about bloggin’. Thanks, guys! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Posted on Oct 12, 2007 by Jon Berry
A majority of the Board of Directors of the Teachers Association of Long Beach scored a victory in court this week when a judge ruled that the union must turn over a membership list to the nine board members who are alleging financial misconduct and other shenanigans at California’s third-largest teachers union. The ruling should […]
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The interests of teachers unions and actual teachers don’t always overlap. The Baltimore Teachers Union, for example, is calling for the ouster of new superintendent Andres Alonso for his proposal to allow principals to require teachers to plan collaboratively for 45 minutes a week. One outraged teacher wrote The Baltimore Sun a letter expressing her […]
Posted on Oct 11, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Two brave Safeway employees in Montana, aided by the National Right To Work Legald Defense Foundation, have won a settlement from United Food and Commercial Workers officials who had been stonewalling the pair on preventing the union from using their money on politics. The AP reports: Among other things, the settlement announced Wednesday requires the […]
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Sometimes a show of support isn’t that at all — whether it’s a resolution on coal-fired plants or a union gathering legally binding union authorization cards from unsuspecting employees through misrepresentations.
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In Washington, D.C., you can catch a lot of funny things that pass for culture. One is the DC Labor Film Festival. Odd, no one invited us to be a critic, even though we have some pretty strong thoughts on labor in film.
Posted on Oct 09, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The Republicans are debating in Michigan and airing on CNBC, which, as you might expect, cares about business issues. They asked the candidates about unions, and here is your crib sheet: Sen. McCain wasted no time in ripping union officials’ attempt to pass the “Employee Free Choice Act,” which would deny secret ballot elections for […]
