Employee Free Choice Act

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• Grad Students’ Struggle Shows Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  In a big victory last week, more than 1,000 graduate students at the University of Illinois exercised their freedom to bargain and won a contract that includes what all workers deserve: fair wages and better working conditions. Unfortunately, too many employees around the country are denied the freedom to bargain. ...
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• Colombians Mourn Colleagues Killed in Past Two Months

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  When 14 Colombian trade union members were in the United States for a training program, they were unable to forget just how dangerous it is to support unions in their home country. During the two months they were here, four of their colleagues were assassinated. In a memorial service at AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., ...
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• Mr. President, take down that wall.

  
  Ray Abernathy — Authority: 110
  Last Saturday night when the Senate Dems hustled up the 60 votes needed to prevent a filibuster on health care reform, my hope-a-meter shot up like the stock market, then dropped soberly back down the next morning. What with the Republicans reeling from disclosures about abortion coverage in the RNC’s health ...
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• Do Unions Sometimes Behave Like Cults?

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 129
  by Paul Garver On November 18 Steven Greenhouse published an article in the New York Times entitled “Some Organizers Protest Their Union’s Tactics.” In the article several former organizers for Unite Here, one now working for SEIU’s Workers United (WU/SEIU), alleged that UniteHere organizers had been ...
  5 days ago

• American Rights at Work Honors Sweeney, Employee Free Choice Champions

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney accepts the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from American Rights at Work. AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney received the top honor at last night’s 5th annual American Rights at Work Eleanor Roosevelt Awards for his long-term dedication on behalf of workers’ ...
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• UNITE HERE Fighting for Hotel Workers Across Nation

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
      Hotel workers and their supporters held a candlelight vigil outside the Hyatt Regency Boston last week.         Members of UNITE HERE are walking out and digging in to fight for fair contracts at hotels across the country. Some 650 workers at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco ...
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• Canada’s Experts Skewer Shoddy Study on Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act often claim the legislation would hurt employment. They base that falsehood on a study paid for by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its cronies, which purports to examine the effects of majority sign-up on the labor market in Canada. Now, a devastating new critique shows ...
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• SEIU President Andy Stern Discusses Health Care, Obama, ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  SEIU President Andy Stern, took a couple of minutes to discuss with us recent developments in the Health Care debate, his support for a public option in the bill and the mistakes committed by ACORN.
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• SEIU: Evidence Against Card Check

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  According to the Wall Street Journal, a rival union to the Service Employees International Union is alleging the purple juggernaut “with changing ballots and threatening to report a worker to immigration officials,” which “experts say the feud is a costly and embarrassing distraction for unions as they lobby ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lodging Industry Discusses Its Future

  
  TheBeat.travel - a travel business community — Authority: 127
  The American Hotel & Lodging Association during the past few days produced interesting dialogue providing some insight into where the lodging industry is heading. Hotels are bracing for a tough 2010 that will see further rate declines; luxury properties will be the first to come back; business travel will remain ...
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• SAG President Joins AFL-CIO Executive Council

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
      Ken Howard         The AFL-CIO Executive Council today welcomed a new member, Ken Howard, president of the Screen Actors ( SAG ). Howard, who was elected to lead the actor’s union in September 2009, replaces former SAG President Alan Rosenberg. Convening for a one-day meeting in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Workers Strike San Francisco’s Grand Hyatt Hotel

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  San Francisco hotel workers rallied in September for a fair contract.   Hotel workers began a three-day strike this morning at the Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco. The strike comes two weeks after members of UNITE HERE Local 2 voted by a 92 percent to 8 percent margin to authorize strikes at any of ...
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• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to Vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 714
  -By Warner Todd Huston There’s not much that union supporters and I can agree upon. But here is one incident where I can wholeheartedly support the aggrieved members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who have found themselves victims of their own union. The SEIU wanted to renegotiate a contract ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 mistakes that can give unions a foothold in your company

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 140
  Yes, the pro-union  Employee Free Choice Act is floundering in Congress. That’s given some businesses the idea that they’ll never see a unionizing effort. Those are exactly the businesses that are most vulnerable. Consider that (a) the EFCA isn’t dead yet, (b) the White House is busy reorganizing the ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Endean, “Canadianized Labor Law?” (Forbes)

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 620
  New at Forbes.com: John Endean has an important article demonstrating that while American unionists seek to use Canada’s pro-union labor laws as a model for their proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), they seldom mention that Canadians themselves have found it advisable to rethink and retreat from some of those ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unions, card check, biggest losers on Election Day

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  The Democrats were big losers on Election Day. But the biggest of all? Michael Barone explains in the Wall Street Journal: But you missed seeing the guy who may have been the biggest loser of all—a man who according to recently released White House logs has been a guest in the White House 22 times since Barack ...
  3 weeks ago

• Could a Union Be Coming to a Cubicle Near You?

  
  On the Job by Anita Bruzzese — Authority: 110
  My Dad was a blue-collar worker. His favorite job was working on the railroad, but the only job I really remember him having was at an oil refinery in Oklahoma. It was a dangerous, dirty job, but he never complained. He worked at that oil refinery for several decades, until one day they closed it and laid off more ...
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• Shuler to IBEW: Let’s Fight for Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  At this week’s Electrical Workers ( IBEW ) conference, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler said we must focus on creating jobs and building a strong, sustainable and fair economy for the future.  Shuler, who rose to leadership as an IBEW organizer, congratulated the union’s members on their efforts in ...
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• Baseball Stars Knock It Out of the Park for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  Just in time for the World Series, 12 members of the Major League Baseball Players Association ( MLBPA ) have added their names to the broad coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act . The players have signed a statement and are appearing in print ads in Washington, D.C., papers today. World Series ...
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