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• LV business leader encouraged by events at jobs summit

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  While not ready to declare Barack Obama a pro-business president, the head of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce gave a positive review to a White House jobs summit on Thursday. Chamber President Kara Kelley said Obama and top members of his administration stressed they were open to re-evaluating federal rules on ...
  23 hours ago

• Nurses Unions Merge to Gain Greater Voice in Health Care

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Delegates to the founding convention of National Nurses United vote unanimously for the merger.         Delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United ( NNU ) yesterday created the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history and ...
  1 day ago

• Voting for the 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award for the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year is underway

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 130
  The nominations are complete and voting for the 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award for the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year. National Jobs with Justice was seeking nominations for its 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award until Dec. 7, and the voting is underway for the top enemies of ...
  1 day ago

• Chronicling the Thirty Years Class War: a review of Steve Early

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 131
  by Michael Hirsch A Review of Steve Early, Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class  War at Home (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Saying there is no class struggle is like denying gravity exists.  Corporate America knows the stakes in a class war.  So does Steve Early, and so ...
  6 days ago

• California Union Members Host First-Ever Economic Recovery Summit

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
        California Labor Federation Communications Director Steve Smith tells us how California union members are taking the lead in moving the state toward economic recovery. The solution to California’s unprecedented economic crisis can be summed up in three words: jobs, jobs, jobs. That was the ...
  6 days ago

• Workers Give Rite Aid CEO the Raspberry for Union-Busting

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Rite Aid worker Tom Brown (far right), ILWU organizer Mary Winzig and supporters confront Rite Aid CEO and execs.         Workers at Rite Aid’s Lancaster, Calif., distribution center have been fighting for justice and a voice at work for years. Here’s the latest report on their ...
  1 week ago

• Women’s Solidarity Breakfast Highlights Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      Roselyn Maina         Roselyn Maina wasn’t about to settle for doing first-class work but being treated like a second-class worker. So she and her co-workers at the Budget car rental operation at Boston’s Logan Airport joined together, and despite strong management opposition, ...
  1 week ago

• EFCA: Keep Up the Fight

  
  Edwize — Authority: 464
  If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if management sees fit, be paid fairly so that, provided they are not ingrates or spendthrifts, they will do just fine being one paycheck ahead of eviction and the need to forage through dumpsters to find ...
  1 week ago

• Giving Thanks for the Secret Ballot

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 748
  Organized labor has demonstrated why workers should spend some time this Thanksgiving giving thanks for the secret ballot. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) “have been sparring for the right to represent 10,000 home health-care workers” in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grad Students’ Struggle Shows Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  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. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colombians Mourn Colleagues Killed in Past Two Months

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  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., ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mr. President, take down that wall.

  
  Ray Abernathy — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do Unions Sometimes Behave Like Cults?

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  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’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• UNITE HERE Fighting for Hotel Workers Across Nation

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Canada’s Experts Skewer Shoddy Study on Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• SEIU President Andy Stern Discusses Health Care, Obama, ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  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.
  3 weeks ago

• SEIU: Evidence Against Card Check

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lodging Industry Discusses Its Future

  
  TheBeat.travel - a travel business community — Authority: 124
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• SAG President Joins AFL-CIO Executive Council

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
      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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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