Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials: Joe Ashton – UAW: $250,000 Christopher Roberts, Earl Graham, Jaime Ruggiero, Shawn Martindale, Torey Gannon – UA: $65,000 Arthur Penn –...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Nov 26, 2020 | Corruption, UAW, UFCW, Unions
Sticky Fingers Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials: Joe Ashton – UAW: $250,000 Christopher Roberts, Earl Graham, Jaime Ruggiero, Shawn Martindale, Torey Gannon – UA: $65,000 Arthur Penn –...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Nov 26, 2020 | Corruption, IBT, UAW, Unions
Most of the stories we report on under union corruption have more to do with greedy leadership than anything else. But at the root of all union corruption stories is a failure of the union to fairly represent its members. This...
Read MoreEven though the NLRB has provided guidance for safely conducting in-person voting for union representation elections, most regional directors and the board itself have been ruling in favor of mail ballot elections in most, if...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 22, 2020 | Labor Relations Insight, Legal, NLRB, Unions
This week Bloomberg News reported that union win rates in NLRB elections have remained steady over the course of this year (pre- and post-Covid), meaning that mail-ballot elections haven’t helped unions as much as employers may...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 22, 2020 | CWA, Industry, Tech - Media, Union Organizing, Unions
Journalists at the Dallas Morning News and Al Día voted to organize with the Communication Workers of America this month, making them the most recent in the growing list of media organizations who are now required to bargain...
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