Labor & Employment Law

Global Unions Launch Campaign for Workers? Rights at T-Mobile

Posted on February 15, 2011
    CWA Vice President Ed Mooney leaflets outside the Deutsche Telekom annual meeting in Cologne, Germany, last May.         The global union movement has launched a major worldwide campaign to convince Deutsche Telekom to end its anti-union actions and allow employees at its T-Mobile USA subsidiary to join a union if they choose...

House Republican Budget Plan Hits Working Families, Spares CEOs

Posted on February 15, 2011
The nation?s No. 1 priority is  getting the nation?s job-creation engine running again. But House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his gang instead have unveiled a budget plan that slams working families and is a “naked payback” to Wall Street CEOs, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka...

Packers Support Wis. Public Employees

Posted on February 15, 2011
       Members of the reigning Super Bowl champs have come out in strong support of the state’s public employees and in opposition to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s attacks on the state’s public servants, which include threats to call out the National Guard if they strike or protest his extreme measures...

Ed Shultz Take on Walker?s Wisconsin Attack Tonight

Posted on February 14, 2011
Tune in to the MSNBC Ed Shultz Show tonight at 10 p.m., as talk turns to Gov. Scott Walker?s assault on working families and similar actions in other states. Brad and Heather Lutes, two educators and Wisconsin Education Association members, will lead the hour talking about what Walker?s proposal to end collective bargaining would mean to working people in the state...

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Missouri Senator Wants to Eliminate Child Labor Laws, Really

Posted on February 14, 2011
I have been writing about politics and legislation from a workers? viewpoint for the better part of three decades. I still get angry and my blood pressure jumps when politicians come after workers and unions with the same old lies and bull crap that we are seeing today in states across the country...

Tell Boehner: Act on Trade Adjustment Assistance Now

Posted on February 14, 2011
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told tens of thousands of workers that if they lose their jobs because of unfair trade practices tough luck, just pull yourselves up by your Chinese-made bootstraps. Boehner and his Republican House colleagues refused last week to schedule a vote on extending the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act (TAA) for workers who have lost their jobs because of outsourcing, offshoring and unfair trade deals...

Guess Who Opposes Walker?s Plan for WI? Conservatives, Republicans and Vets

Posted on February 14, 2011
Conservative and Republican public employees across the state voiced opposition to a proposal by Gov. Scott Walker that would deny nurses, teachers, EMTs and other trusted public service providers the right to collectively bargain?a freedom that nearly every other Wisconsinite enjoys...

Minnesota Union Members Rally Against Anti-Worker Bill

Posted on February 14, 2011
Some 400 members from dozens of Minnesota unions?backed by more than 1,000 e-mails and phone calls?helped score a victory for working families last week. They jammed a state House hearing room in opposition to a bill that called for a wage freeze for state employees, elimination of vital parts of the state?s Public Employment Labor Relations Act, a 15 percent cut in the state workforce and a so-called ?Right to Work? provision...

Wisconsin Blogs Tracking Walker?s Assault

Posted on February 14, 2011
Wisconsin?s progressive bloggers have been working overtime to cover Gov. Scott Walker?s outrageous assault on middle-class jobs, working families and public employees. The assaults are part of a nationwide pattern we?re seeing as newly elected state governors and legislators offer up payback to corporate CEOs who funded their campaigns...

Wisconsin Says ?No Way? to Walker?s Budget, Bargaining Assault

Posted on February 14, 2011
  UPDATE:  Veterans are strongly objecting to Walker’s “inappropriate threat to activate the National Guard to intimidate state workers, as his administration moves forward with plans to break up workers’ unions,” according Vote Vets...

Worker Deaths Belie Politicians? Portrayal of Public Employees

Posted on February 13, 2011
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), New Jersey Chris Christie (R) and politicians around the nation are running campaigns to demonize public employees and lay the blame for state budget problems at their feet. They conveniently ignore the dedicated and many times dangerous work public employees do every day–like AFSCME Local 379 member Billy Rhynalds and Teamsters (IBT) Local 117 member Jayme Biendl, both of whom were killed recently on the job...

Show Some Union Love This Valentine?s Day

Posted on February 12, 2011
       Monday is Valentine?s Day and the last-minute rush is on this weekend to get the right candy, flowers, wine or champagne to show your loved one how much you care. How about showing some love for  union brothers and sisters at the same time by buying union-made products...

Wisconsin?s Walker Calls for End of Collective Bargaining, Alerts National Guard

Posted on February 11, 2011
First Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced a state budget plan that  strips state workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights, cuts pay and benefit and says there will be no negotiations. Today he took it even further: He announced he has alerted the National Guard to be ready in case state workers strike or rise in protest...

NFL Players Prepare for Worst, Hope for Best in Contract Talks

Posted on February 11, 2011
NFL team owners have been preparing for a lockout for three years, but players continue to ?prepare for the worst and hope for the best,? George Atallah, assistant executive director of external affairs of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), said today...

Dirty Tea Party Secrets Revealed

Posted on February 11, 2011
Looks like a California tea party activist took to heart AC/DC?s song  ?Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap? to take a swipe Ohio public employees. Thanks to the good folks at the progressive blog Plunderbund for publicizing the trickery. Earlier this week, AFSCME set up a call-in action for its Ohio members to contact state senators and urge them to oppose legislation (S...

Record Trade Deficit Shows Need for Currency Legislation

Posted on February 11, 2011
The U.S. Commerce Department announced today that our trade deficit reached $497 billion last year, including a new record $273 billion deficit with China. Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul said a record trade deficit with China ?does not put us on a path to win the future...

Egypt Workers? Strikes Added New Strength to Protests

Posted on February 11, 2011
    Thousands of workers and protesters walked the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, during a ?day of leaving? demonstration.          The resignation of Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak comes one day after huge numbers of workers went on strike to protest working conditions, adding a new and powerful emphasis to the massive ongoing protests throughout the country...

Kaiser Nurses Gain Improvements in Patient Care

Posted on February 11, 2011
Thousands of registered nurses and nurse practitioners in Northern and Central California, members of  the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU), voted nearly unanimously to approve a new three-year contract with Kaiser Permanente that gives them more freedom and authority to better care for their patients...

NFL Lockout Not Just About Football. It?s About 150,000 Jobs

Posted on February 10, 2011
    Baltimore Ravens player Chris Carr, former Washington Redskin Brian Mitchell and Detroit concessions worker John Marler talk about the possible lockout of NFL players.         Each community with an NFL team stands to lose as much as $160 million if the team owners force a lockout next season...

Stopping Currency Manipulation Would Create U.S. Jobs

Posted on February 10, 2011
      Leveling the playing field by enforcing our trade laws against  currency manipulation is a no-cost action that will create jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today. He called on Congress to pass the bipartisan Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 2011...

McDermott: ?Republicans Have Always Hated Medicare?

Posted on February 10, 2011
Today?s House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Medicare was billed as an examination of how the health care reform law will impact the 45-year-old program that provides health care coverage for nearly 40 million seniors. But Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash...

Egypt?s Workers Strike for Democracy and Rights

Posted on February 10, 2011
    Egyptians protest at Tahrir Square in Cairo.          The international trade union movement has sent a strong message of support to tens of thousands of striking Egyptian workers as they continue to fight for democracy, social justice and trade union rights...

Sheet Metal Workers, Laborers Help Korean Workers Seeking Justice

Posted on February 10, 2011
  Members of the Sheet Metal Workers and Laborers have joined forces with two South Korean unioins to bring a fugitive corporate executive to justice.  About a year ago, Jeon Yoon-Soo, the former chairman of Sung Won Construction, fled to the United States to escape questioning by South Korean authorities about allegations of corruption, mismanagement and illegal transfer of funds abroad that led to the company filing for bankruptcy...

Flight Attendants Speak Out Against Rand Paul?s Health and Safety Attack

Posted on February 10, 2011
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants to deny safety and health protections for flight attendants. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill would extend Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) protection to flight attendants and other air crew, something air crew workers have been seeking for decades...

We Got Our Valentine from the RNC

Posted on February 10, 2011
Wow. How sweet! We didn?t even know they cared. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched an e-Valentine?s Day card website where you can send a card, adorned with the faces of  people who certainly aren’t the RNC?s sweethearts  and carrying what passes for Republican humor messages...

Workers Pack Ohio Hearing to Oppose Attack on Collective Bargaining

Posted on February 10, 2011
      Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Republican legislators launched their biggest assault yet against Buckeye State public employees with a hearing yesterday on a bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for all state workers, including faculty and staff at Ohio state colleges and universities...

Green Jobs, Good Jobs Conference: Act Now to Create Green Economy

Posted on February 09, 2011
  Hundreds of union members and environmental activists will spend the day on Capitol Hill Thursday delivering one message to lawmakers: We must quickly put aside partisan bickering and make a long-term national commitment to create a green economy and make serious investments in infrastructure, education, research and development and manufacturing...

Where Are the Jobs? Not at CPAC Meeting

Posted on February 09, 2011
This week in Washington, D.C., thousands of conservative, very conservative and downright OMG extreme conservative activists will gather for the Conservative Political Action Committee?s (CPAC) annual choir session. The usual cast of characters will headline the event?Grover Norquist, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, George Will and of course most of the Republican congressional leaders...

IAFF?s Schaitberger: ?Scapegoating Workers Won?t Solve Anything?

Posted on February 09, 2011
The attacks on firefighters and other public employees by state politicians like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) are ?like a tsunami rolling across the country….The attacks have never been greater, more serious or so vicious,? says Fire Fighters (IAFF) President Harold Schaitberger...

House Leaders Block Trade Adjustment Assistance

Posted on February 09, 2011
The House leadership continues to show its ?blatant lack of concern for American workers who have lost their jobs because of unfair trade deals,? AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today. In the latest bold move against working people, House leaders abruptly refused to schedule a vote yesterday on extending expiring Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programs...

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