…on unionizing and being represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. A touch of irony: union actors appear in Target’s anti-union video that they’ve been showing employees….
…closet. The Star Tribune speculates on what the recent Target union vote will mean for organizing efforts in retail stores throughout the country. A new decision by the National Labor…
…by the Assembly would hurt students and fracture communities, by allowing undemocratic minority rule to overpower the will of the majority of voters who want to invest in their local…
May 26, 2011 By Harry Kelber AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, in an impassioned speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 20, charted a new course for…
…protect hotel workers from sexual assault has been introduced and includes requirements for sexual harassment training and a hotel employee’s bill of rights. A YouTube video posted by a Wendy’s…
…year. An editorial in the New York Daily News speculates on the City Council’s role in Friday’s union vote for Target employees. The National Labor Relations Board is taking Boeing…
Reprint May 23, 2011 By Scott Stevens May 12, 2011 UFT/photo by Miller Photography http://www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2011/051211newyork.cfm AFT president Randi Weingarten told a rally of more than 1,000 child care workers and…
…a raise or benefit increase. “We will not be forced to pay for the city’s economic crisis with our bargaining rights,” she declared. Cruz was supported by the union’s national…
May 20, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale If the world doesn’t end this Sunday, people are going to need mass transit. And the MTA is going to need mass transit funding…
By Erica Varlese Two unions are grappling over jobs at a new Qatar Airlines gate at JFK International. The New York Daily News states that poor business practices, not unions,…
