Labor Relations

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• Information wants to be free

  
  Chrononautic Log ? — Authority: 413
  If all’s gone well I’m in Hungary right now, and for the next thirty hours or so. But whether that’s true or not, meanwhile, thanks to my own personal second-strike, fail-deadly, dead-man-switch system here, “ Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom ” (mine, not Cory ’s) has been released into the wild, ...
  23 hours ago

• part-timer has taken a feeder driver hours

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  I pick up ground pkgs at a customer cpu account, I have to scan every pkg and then load into a trailer. UPS moved my start time forward so I can do feeder work. Then UPS hired this part-timer off the street to do the scanning and loading. This has to be a contract violation! I always thought ground freight was off ...
  2 days ago

• Banner plane

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  On word of mouth info I heard today it seems the Teamsters, and I am assuming it was Local 177, hired a banner plane to fly past the Edison building in NJ yesterday. I was told that Bloomberg was doing a news piece at the time on UPS and may have caught the plane on camera. The banner supposedly accused the company of ...
  3 days ago

• Wandering what article I can file a grievance on warning letter?

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  Wandering what article in the contract I can file a grievance on warning letter,intentent to suspend letter,or termination letter? Just wanting to know for future reference,any help would be great!!! And No Ive never been wrote up in any way...I promise...lol:happy-very: Thanks
  4 days ago

• In the news: district finds money, drops furlough demand

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 125
  Willamette Week is reporting that Portland Public Schools has found enough money to drop demands for a five-day teacher furlough in the contract currently being negotiated.
  4 days ago

• This Week in PPS: teachers rally for a contract

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 125
  Download audio , subscribe to the podcast , or listen here: “More than anything, people just want to feel like they’re respected… If people felt more respected, they might have more sympathy for the district’s ongoing financial difficulties.” –Cheyne Cumming, teacher and PAT organizer Approximately ...
  4 days ago

• What Has ‘Brown’ Done for You Lately? — Part 2

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Two months ago, I published a post (see “What Has ‘Brown’ Done for You Lately?” that included a video about efforts by UPS (a.k.a., “Big Brown”) to get a “bailout” from Congress in the form of legislation that would change the federal law under which competitor FedEx operates.  In turn, the ...
  4 days ago

• Is ‘Deck’ Stacked Against Kenneth Gladney?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Some believe the proverbial “deck” is stacked against Kenneth Gladney (right) receiving justice.  And who could blame them.According to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, 8,799 recorded incidents of union violence since 1975 have resulted in only 1,963 arrests and 258 convictions — roughly ...
  5 days ago

• PT supervisor promotion - withdrawn

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  Ive been working for UPS for over 3 years now, and recently was given from the hub (800 employees) I worked at to a center (150-200 employees?) here out east. Where I worked before, I had a pretty good record. CERC, safety committee, showed up everyday on time ( occasional car problem or final exam being the ...
  5 days ago

• Using Unions As Weapons: UPS v. FedEx

  
  Big Government — Authority: 810
  You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they’re governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s-and more than twice as expensive. So now UPS is trying to ...
  5 days ago

• Big Labor and Big Government May Be the Only Winners in UPS - FedEx War

  
  National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation - — Authority: 421
  A heated battle is raging in Congress between major shipping companies United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corporation and the rights of literally tens -- if not hundreds -- of thousands of employees hang in the balance. read more
  5 days ago

• Teachers’ rally photos

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 125
  Working for peanuts 1,500 marchers stretched almost four city blocks Teachers are being asked to return to pre-2007 pay levels, even as they take on more responsibilities. Teachers hit their 500th day without a contract this week. Robb Cowie watches the festivities from above with a friend. ( ...
  5 days ago

• Discharge Letters Flying Like Confetti

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 154
  Welcome to the new UPS. Discharge letters are flying like confetti in our feeder dept. every driver who gets in an accident gets a dischrge letter. no progressives anymore. 7 drivers have been fired here in the last 2 weeks. ( I mean discharged ) What is going On???????? Glad i am a short timer with less than 6 ...
  5 days ago

• Does PPS want a teacher strike?

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 125
  It’s a concept I brought up without much thought: since a major sticking point in contract negotiations is a five-day furlough for teachers, does the district want to force a strike, then, after five days of teacher picketing, come back to the table without the furlough in their contract offer? At least one teacher ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Arcane Labor Law Counts the Votes of Non-Voters

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
        Imagine voting on a ballot initiative and knowing that everyone who didn’t show up at the polls still got to vote—because their votes would be counted as “No.” That’s the process for airline and railway workers when they vote on whether to join a union. The election results are tallied not ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Legality of Two-Member NLRB Rulings

  
  Employer Law Report — Authority: 109
  As an update to my earlier post , the U.S. Supreme Court has recently agreed to consider whether the National Labor Relations Board, which was designed to have five members but has operated with just two members for the past 22 months, has the legal authority to issue two-member rulings in unfair labor practice and ...
  1 week ago

• Rally with teachers Monday

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 125
  The Portland Association of Teachers is sponsoring a rally and march for teachers Monday , November 9 at 6 p.m., starting at the Rose Quarter Benton Surface Lot (between the Coliseum and North Broadway). After the rally, participants will march to school district headquarters, where PAT president Rebecca Levison will ...
  1 week ago

• Nietzsche’s Niche: Kirp on the University of Chicago

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 103
  I was just reading Christopher Newfield’s interesting 2003 book review on university-industry relations when I noticed that he mentioned a chapter by Kirp on the University of Chicago . The following rather florid (occasionally insulting) prose is interesting — at least to me — because it proceeds from ...
  1 week ago

• Whats at issue in the SEPTA strike

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 699
  Contrary to most reports in the news media, wages and benefits are not the main bone of contention between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and striking members of Transport Workers Union Local 234.
  1 week ago

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