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• Using Unions As Weapons: UPS v. FedEx

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  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 ...
  3 hours ago

• Teachers’ rally photos

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 123
  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. ( ...
  16 hours ago

• Discharge Letters Flying Like Confetti

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 153
  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 ...
  23 hours ago

• Does PPS want a teacher strike?

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 138
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Arcane Labor Law Counts the Votes of Non-Voters

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
        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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Employer Law Report — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Rally with teachers Monday

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 98
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Whats at issue in the SEPTA strike

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 712
  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.
  6 days ago

• Teachers leaflet at the Great City Schools conference

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 123
  While district administrators attended seminars like “Successful Teacher incentive and Pay for Performance Programs in Urban Schools” last week at the Great City Schools Conference , teachers leafleted attendees with the following: To the Attendees of the Council of the Great City Schools Conference: Welcome to ...
  6 days ago

• Election scheduled at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in California, SEIU agrees to election after community pressure

  
  UnionMaine.BlogSpot.Com — Authority: 118
  Image via WikipediaTuesday, December 3, 2009 After pressure from workers, religious leaders, and the local labor council SEIU agrees to elections.Santa Rosa, Calif.—Six months after trying to have Union elections the employees at Santa Rosa Memorial hospital get to choose between rival NUHW and SEIU-UHW or to have ...
  6 days ago

• Great schools conference: sorry about small schools, let’s try merit pay

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 123
  As Portland teachers approach 500 days without a contract, and as discontent bubbles to the surface over a failing experiment in K8 schools and an ill-conceived “surplus” auction, senior management of Portland Public Schools spent last week at the downtown Hilton, enjoying seminars and speakers, not to mention ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court to Review Legality of Two-Member NLRB Decisions

  
  Washington Labor & Employment Wire — Authority: 119
  On November 2, 2009, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in New Process Steel L.P. v. NLRB , paving the way for it to resolve the validity of hundreds of decisions issued by the National Labor Relations Board since January 25, 2008. As a result of an impasse in the final year of the Bush administration, three ...
  1 week ago

• If at First You Don’t Succeed, Change the Rules.

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 633
  From attempting to manipulate the definition of “supervisor” to changing the way in which workers are organized , the above seems to be a guiding principle in organized labor’s bold new approach to increasing union membership. Consistent with that, some union friendly government officials are trying to change ...
  1 week ago

• Help! Am i @ the correct pay rate?

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 153
  Hello, Fellow Upsers.. This may of been Posted Before... But im New to this Forum..So let me Slide on this one.. Ive Been With UPS Since 8/98 and Finally Decided to go Driving around 8/07. The thing is i Jumped Straight into the Full time position.. Never air Drove or Cover drove... Stupid Mistake, But i didnt wanna ...
  1 week ago

• Secretary of Labor Solis gets serious about workplace safety with BP

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 122
  Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, one of my (s)heroes, is getting serious about enforcing workplace safety laws. Back in August, she toured a West Virginia coal mine , tweeting her experience. Now she is coming out swinging against the oil industry, as OSHA issued a record $87.4 million fine against BP for safety ...
  1 week ago

• Driving under influence and permits

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 153
  Has anybody driven for work on a permit?
  1 week ago

• Fort Jackson Security Guard Takes Courageous Stand Against Repeated Union Boss Threats and Abuses

  
  National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation - — Authority: 120
  Fort Jackson Security Guard Takes Courageous Stand Against Repeated Union Boss Threats and Abuses National Labor Relations Board agents investigate charges after Right to Work Foundation attorneys join worker’s efforts Columbia, South Carolina (October 30, 2009) – A local employee of Wackenhut Services, Inc, ...
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• The Teachers Contract Up Close

  
  City Room — Authority: 801
  The contract that spells out pay and benefits for New York Citys 79,000 teachers has helped them achieve 43 percent gains in wages since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002. But it also has provisions aimed at sweetening the pot for those who opt to teach other peoples children.
  1 week ago

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