Weekly Digest – March 12, 2014
…Conspires to Undermine Unions Panelists at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland Mar. 8 agreed that with Democrats in power in Washington, the best way to undermine…
…Conspires to Undermine Unions Panelists at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland Mar. 8 agreed that with Democrats in power in Washington, the best way to undermine…
…Local 737 President Jeremy Cruz-Haiken, which together with Local 362 represents more than half of Disney World’s 66,000 “cast members.” The two unions’ current contract expires March 29. AFT Website…
…per hour he got when he started eight years ago. Read more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/low-wage-workers_n_4674985.html NYSUT Board of Directors OKs ‘No Confidence’ Vote for Commissioner The New York State United Teachers Union’s board…
…as well as everybody else.” Labor Department Probes Florida’s Unemployment Web Site U.S. Department of Labor officials will travel to Florida to investigate the state’s “CONNECT” Web site for providing…
…that they couldn’t take Thanksgiving off “without accruing a point or a demerit on our record.” Did IT Outsourcing Cause Obamacare Website Snafu? The problems with the Affordable Care Act’s…
…20 unions, picked Pottsville because it’s the site of the brewery owned by billionaire Dick Yuengling, who last summer said Pennsylvania would attract more business if it banned union shops….
…Union. Kellogg locked out 226 employees at its Memphis plant after the workers refused its “last and best offer,” said BCTGM Memphis president Kevin Bradshaw. The key issue is the…
…of American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 in Chicago, where nearly 100 government employees rallied. Mikulka, an environmental engineer, said the cleanup of an arsenic-contaminated site in Wisconsin he…
…gaining a competitive advantage at the expense of employees,” Bernhard Schiederig, union negotiator at Amazon’s Bad Hersfeld site, said in a statement. Germany is the online retailer’s second-largest market after…
…Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Charleston Sept. 5, charging that contractor Hi-Tech Electric fired workers for trying to establish a union at the site. Electrician Justin Lore, who worked for…