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Organizationally, labor structures present a mixed picture, one that would have been hard to predict in 2005, when the Change to Win (CTW) unions bolted from the AFL-CIO. In general, state and local AFL-CIO federations were able to retain the membership of local CTW affiliates, and many were revitalized by more diverse and younger leaders. The grassroots upsurge that put a single-payer health system on the long-term agenda of the AFL-CIO was led by local and state federations. The AFL-CIO 's commitment to improve its racial and age diversity was reflected both in the composition of the delegations to its recent convention and in the range of social issues addressed there.
There are few major policy differences between the AFLCIO unions and those from CTW on social and political issues. ...
... has been covered extensively in some 20 articles on DSA's Talking Union blog). When SEIU imposed a ...
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On Oct. 26, 2011, the United States Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards adopted a final rule revising the information that unio...
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Despite numerous letters on the subject, I have not read a single attack on the Employee Free Choice Act that didn't rely on a painfully false analogy as its only argument ("Union thuggery," Sept. 12 and PghTrib.com).
Every single one of these articles dogmatically compare the current National Labor Relations Board election process to form a union to the American democratic system for electing political leaders -- a profoundly false analogy.
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The Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) gives notice that on January 13, 2012, Submission <greek-i>2011-02 was accepted for review pursuant to Article 16.3 of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). The Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME), a Mexican union, filed the submission with OTLA on November 14, 2011. The SME also filed the submission on behalf of 93 other organizations. The submitters allege that the Government of Mexico (GOM) failed to fulfill its obligations under Articles 2 through 6 of the NAALC. The submission alleges that these violations of the NAALC stem from a number of actions or failures to take action on the part of the GOM starting with the issuance of a Presidential decree on October 10, 2009 dissolving the state-owned electrical...
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...INTERNATIONAL MARITIME WORKERS UNION ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW... hired in Italy, where they sign Liberian articles. Respondent union is an American labor organizatio...
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The Fierce Fight Over A Label:
Is The Obama National Labor Relations Board A Pro-Union Activist?
On February 11, 2011, the House Subcommittee on...
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Introduction. II. Private Sector Unions Face The Vanishing Point Without Labor Law Reform, Yet Unions Could Help To Restore Structural Checks And Balances In The Private Ordering Of Economic Wealth By Providing A More Institutionalized Voice To Employees In The Decisions That Affect Them At Work. A. The Many Deficiencies in Federal Labor Law Have Helped Drive Unions to the Vanishing Point as Collective Bargaining Representatives, and They Fail to Serve the Interests of Today's Changing Workforce. 1. The Paradoxical Decline of Private Sector Unions While Public Sector Unions Flourish. 2. Ineffective Remedies for Anti-Union Discrimination Make Such Discrimination a Rational Choice for Managers in the Private Sector. 3. Other Failings of Federal Labor Law Create an Imbalance that Favors...
...3, 2001, http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2001/080301a.html. One study showed that permanent...
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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) applies to all employers affecting commerce and to all of their employees, not only to unionized employers and...
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... States banned goods manufactured by convict labor in the Tariff Act of 1890 (section 51), Great Brit... best researched and most widely quoted articles exploring the union of trade and human rights. But...
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TEMECULA, Calif. -- Amid Labor Day's parades and picnics, union bosses will bellow Monday about workers' rights and the alleged greed of management, especially inside big business. Such class warfare sloganeering would be easier to stomach if big labor were internally consistent. Instead, when their own workers channel Norma Rae and demand better wages and benefits, labor leaders imitate union-busting robber barons:
I was fired for trying to start a union at the UFT," said a stunned Jim Callaghan. For 13 years, Callaghan penned speeches and newsletter articles for Gotham's United Federation of Teachers. He told the New York Post that when managers sacked one of his colleagues without cause, he decided to organize the UFT's 12 in- store, non-union writers.