…the Parents Union. Randy Mastro, a deputy mayor under Rudolph Giuliani, will represent them. Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown has filed a similar suit. “Once again, we see the right-wing…
Compiled by Steven Wishnia and Neal Tepel Who’s Funding Campbell Brown’s Campaign Against Teachers? Former CNN news anchor Campbell Brown won’t say who’s paying for the lawsuit she’s organized to…
…Win Right to ‘Micro-Union’ The National Labor Relations Board ruled July 22 that cosmetics and fragrances workers at the Macy’s in Saugus, Massachusetts, can vote on whether to join the…
…shortly after the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachersendorsed the American Postal Workers Union’sboycott of the office-supply chain. But APWU President Mark Dimondstein called it a “ruse,” saying in a…
…those rulings. The Court decision jeopardizes NLRB rulings made in the 19 months before the Senate confirmed enough Obama appointees to create a legal quorum, but its impact “is far…
…at the rank-and-file level,” says recently elected Massachusetts Teachers Association president Barbara Madeloni, “but I also tried to hold up a more positive vision for re-engaging the world.” While she…
…police killed at least three garment workers protesting for higher wages in January, and Qatar, which prohibits migrant workers from joining unions, are among the world’s worst nations for labor,…
…for it. “I’m not predicting a positive outcome, but I’m certainly hoping for one,” he said after the hearing. NLRB Rules Videotaping Pickets Is Unfair Labor Practice The National Labor…
…Pearson, the world’s largest standardized-test company, to stop prohibiting teachers and principals from talking about what’s on the tests, as its contracts with New York and other states do. In…
…what it calls an unprecedented campaign to recruit and train workers. “Right now we are running out of people for jobs,” said Brian Aske, apprenticeship coordinator for the International Union…
