Kaiser Win for SEIU, No Rerun Coming
Nytimes article picture of SEIU workers celebrating with workers coming into work. Mumbai The results of the Kaiser decertification election or what Steve Greenhouse with the NY Times calls the...
View ArticleCollective Bargaining Under Attack
New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin. After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a...
View ArticleAre we Hearing the Death Knell for Unions?
New Orleans The backdrop to the great excitement and fight back in Wisconsin, Ohio, and India for the labor movement seems to be a very black curtain that some are trying to pull across the stage....
View ArticleThe Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults
Worker Solidarity Movement New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial...
View ArticleInitiative Campaigns Could Save Unions and Obama in Ohio in 2012
New Orleans In a wild case of unintended consequences the current Republican attack on unions in New Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio could end up insuring the re-election of President Obama and...
View ArticleRepublicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril
Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin. And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not...
View ArticleGo Players! Beat Owners!
New Orleans Not surprisingly the NFL players and owners marched into the abyss yesterday in another high-profile fight over the value of collective bargaining, though in this case in order to hold on...
View ArticleHard Times and Wild Kingdom
Nairobi water buffalo coming down to water The stories on the streets here and the headlines around the world are daunting. The law trimming back collective bargaining in Ohio seems even worse than...
View ArticleLabor Board Grows a Set
Seattle As union membership falls to record lows and seems now headed to only 5% of private sector density and with recent assaults on public sector unionization may be pushed below 20% density there...
View ArticleWalter Reuther’s Lesson from Autoworkers to Nurses: Harder to Bargain is...
Walter Reuther speaking at a large labor rally Toronto The other day I was having lunch with a friend and colleague, Colin Heslop, who has been the skilled trades director for the Canadian Auto...
View ArticleGunning for the Teachers and Their Unions
map of union strength according to Thomas Fordham Institute New Orleans Even as all of us hit the dawn patrol to vote and get out the vote on the US-Election Day, it is sobering to see that the...
View ArticleHalf-a-Loaf: The Hard Lessons of Elections
New Orleans As we peel more layers off the onion of the recent election, there’s more good news and more bad, but there are also refresher courses that remind us of lessons we’ve painfully won, but...
View ArticleUnbelievable: Right-to-Work in Michigan
New Orleans Virtually in the blink of an eye, despite huge divisions on the street and throughout the state, somehow, unbelievably, Michigan is now, like the solid south and some of the West, the...
View ArticleNLRB Looking at Free Rider Pay-to-Play Dues Obligation
New Orleans The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) took a step that might be small, but at least seems in the right direction. They have solicited legal briefs, and no doubt there will be many...
View ArticleWorkers’ Committees
Little Rock Sometimes it helps to get a gentle reminder of what we know, but don’t always practice. At our union we live and breathe “majority unionism” by which we mean trying to organize as many...
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