The violent battle of Blair Mountain has important lessons for today's union members and leaders. The unions did not want the battle, and ultimately they lost it. But they were so desperate they had to try. In the longer run, it is fair to say that they eventually won the larger contest. The bold union "insurrection" marked the beginning of a push to recognize coal mining unions. Labor unions in the United States have, it seems, reached a similar impasse. Ever since the 1981 PATCO fiasco when other unions failed to rally to the cause of their air traffic control brothers, the large corporations and their political allies have been winning a war of attrition against labor. There are no guns involved this time, but conservative judicial appointments, globalization and recent labor union c...
The new U.S. free-trade deal with South Korea expands opportunities for South Korean businesses to invest in the Pittsburgh area and sell products here -- and for local manufacturing, technology and service companies to make money there, some experts say. Some Democrats and labor unions in the United States, and activists in South Korea, however, fear the agreement that President Lee Myung-bak signed Tuesday will weaken their respective countries' economies.
How John Edwards does in the race to become the Democrats'2008 presidential nominee could be an indication of the state of labor unions in the United States. On Thursday, Edwards picked up the endorsement of the Iowa Postal Workers Union, after getting the nod early in the week from 10 state councils of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), including Iowa's. He already had endorsements from United Steelworkers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Mine Workers of America and Transport Workers Union of America.
... manufacturer of business uniforms in the United States, filed suit in federal court in the Souther...(12) For much of the previous decade the unions had been fighting a highly publicized battle to re...
I have known [Larry Seabrook] since I was a teenager," said King, the Bronx's lead organizer for the 1199 Greater New York Health Care Education Project, an initiative that he describes as "organizing and educating the community around issues relating to healthcare. King, who celebrated [Barack Obama]'s swearing in by holding an inauguration party, says he unabashedly has taken several pages from Obama's playbook. For several months leading up to November's historical election, the would-be legislator worked for the Obama campaign in Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs, helping to galvanize labor unions in support of the United States' 44th president. "My commitment to this community runs deep," he affirmed. "This is where I have lived my entire Ufe. It's so much a part of me. We...
The Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs of the U.S. Department of Labor has determined that an extension of time is required for its review of a public submission concerning Bahrain filed under Chapter Fifteen (the Labor Chapter) of the Bahrain--United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The submission was received on April 21, 2011 from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and alleges actions by the Government of Bahrain that, if substantiated, would be inconsistent with Bahrain's commitments under the FTA Labor Chapter. OTLA accepted the submission for review on June 10, 2011, in accordance with its published procedures and standards for acceptance. Acceptance of the submission for review d...
... the Government of Bahrain, Bahraini trade unions, employers' organizations, employers, workers, and...
A Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election would reignite the fight between big labor and big business over a contentious workplace-safety issue. The mere mention of ergonomics, the arcane science that has come to symbolize workplace injuries ranging from sore backs to carpal tunnel syndrome, can cause employers pain. But to the nation's labor unions, ergonomics - leading to the No. 1 cause of workplace injuries in the United States - is an issue of the utmost importance.
Despite the long history of global federations, no real global union exists. "For a union to exist at any place and any time, there are many preconditions," says Ron Oswald, general secretary of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF), one of the most imaginative global union federations. "First workers [must] know there's a union, and employers [must] know there's a union. I'm not sure any worker or employer knows there's a global union. It's a brand, not a reality. International companies are clearly a reality. International unions have yet to become so. Unions are seeking other ways to meet global capital on a more level playing field. In January, several unions-Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), two of Britain's largest unions; IG Metall (the giant G...
...But in the United States and elsewhere, the idea remains new and aliien to many labor leaders, even as those same international union gr...
The irony is thick and rich, if not sweet and sour: All through the Middle East, the freedom- and liberty-starved masses are rising up in an attempt to shed the shackles of their totalitarian masters. Meanwhile, here in the United States, totalitarian public sector labor unions are expressing outrage that state government after state government no longer can afford to be shackled by unsustainable collective bargaining deals.
It's no accident that the social democracies - Sweden, France and Germany, who kept on paying high wages - now have more industry than the United States or the UK. During the '70s, '80s and '90s, the Anglo-Americans, the neoliberals, The Economist crowd, and the press generally, would taunt the social democrats in Europe: "You'd better break the unions." That's the way to save your industry. Even in 2008, precisely because of "globalization," Germany had a serious shortage of people able to fill high-skill, highpaying jobs, especially engineers. In the United States, engineers complain they can't find work; many of them just end up in sales. In the union-free, lower-cost United States, we don't create the kind of jobs engineers can do. Germany's problem? It has too many such jobs. It's ...
...And it was the high labor cost that pushed those countries into making highe...
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