Weekly Digest – August 27, 2014
…to join the Service Employees International Union. Results announced Aug. 26 showed that about 60% of the 5,800 workers who voted endorsed the union. The SEIU can now negotiate with…
…to join the Service Employees International Union. Results announced Aug. 26 showed that about 60% of the 5,800 workers who voted endorsed the union. The SEIU can now negotiate with…
…the same work in another state, according to a Dallas Morning News analysis of federal data. The state had the nation’s worst fatality rate in several construction trades, with almost…
…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…
…Employees International Union, the board will rule on whether McDonald’s qualifies as a “joint employer” along with the franchise owner. In the other, the Teamsters are appealing a regional board’s…
…union involvement and organizing activitiesare asking the National Labor Relations Board to rule that the company is responsible for the actions of its franchises. The nine, backedby the Fast Food…
…they merged in 2012. It also improves rates paid to actors on subscription-video and Web shows, including Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards. Read more L.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…
…Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmenwalked out after SEPTA management announced it would impose its terms to settle a long-running contract dispute. Those terms would have given the workers raises,…