The Employee Free Choice Act now heads to the Senate. If only a Senator could be fired every 17 minutes…Ted Kennedy’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP?) Committee received testimony on the proposed law on March...
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Here is a great summary of the CUNY conference on transforming the labor movement. There are some notable quotes. Karen Ackerman (AFL-CIO political director) claiming it a victory that labor won 65% of the vote for Kerry is just...
Read MoreSo far the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers are 0 for 2 in NLRB elections.
Read More I thought this piece was interesting on the response of labor to this year’s election. The five lessons are: 1. Abandon the Inside Game (working within current parties is failing – need a true national labor party);...
Read MoreA couple of interesting updates. As mentioned earlier the UFCW international president stopped voting on the contract (more on that here – including confirmation that the move was intended to prevent acceptance of the...
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