Posts Tagged ‘Union Organizing’
Pay will be diverted for Uber Drivers
In his guest column “Uber and other drivers want flexibility, not union bosses” [Opinion, Dec. 9], Michael Beckerman correctly highlights several reasons why the City Council’s ordinance to impose forced unionization on independent drivers is wrong for Seattle. Yet his argument left out perhaps the most egregious consequence of the proposed ordinance: The scheme empowers…
Read MoreWill Union Representation Destroy the UAW?
The Editor of Labor Union Report Online, speculates about the United Auto Workers’ union representation election win last week. Not surprisingly, the union won the largely symbolic vote 108-44. Also, not surprisingly, shortly afterward, the UAW urged the company to drop its appeal of the NLRB’s decision to allow a “micro-unit” of maintenance employes (as…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet December 04, 2015
Worker files unfair labor charge against GM, UAW Detroit News Online, December 01, 2015 Daniel Lowery of Holly is claiming unfair labor practices against the three entities, according to a copy of the charges filed last week by the National Right to Work Defense Foundation Inc. on behalf of Lowery. The foundation says Lowery’s charges…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet November 27, 2015
Group hits labor unions as VW Chattanooga vote nears Chattanooga Times Free Press Online, November 23, 2015 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, in a letter to U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, said his department is ignoring IG Metall’s failure to file federal disclosure papers. Union bosses smear teachers in Supreme…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet October 30, 2015
Union calls for full investigation into Housing Authority of Baltimore City Baltimore Sun Online, October 23, 2015 Union leader Glenard S. Middleton called Thursday for a “full investigation” into the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, following allegations some maintenance workers demanded sex from female residents to make repairs. Why 8,737 UPS retirees are bracing for…
Read MoreUAW Attempts Chattanooga Again
UAW union officials are once again attempting to organize the Volkswagen automobile factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The first attemptto organize the plantin 2014 failed,butUAW officials are back for another round. Christina Rogers has the story in The Wall Street Journal Online. The union hopes to win recognition for a smaller group of skilled traded workers at…
Read MoreAre Bosses Endangering Unions’ Relevancy?
Mary Kramer, Crain’s Detroit Business News, examines whether union bosses’ tactics are rendering unions more and more irrelevant. In a couple of weeks, the United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers will kick off contract talks to replace four-year pacts that expire Sept. 14. As Dave Barkholz has reported for our sibling publication Automotive News, the…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet June 26, 2015
ALRB’s top lawyer named to governor’s staff Fresno Bee Online, June 24, 2015 Sylvia Torres-Guillen, 49, of Los Angeles will become special counsel to the governor. She had been the ALRB’s general counsel since 2011. Beyond the Gerawan case, Torres-Guillén has been sparring with the ALRB’s new chairman, William Gould, who has wanted to take…
Read MoreLabor Dept Pushes Unionization
Labor Union Report has an interesting story about Mary Beth Maxwell, who, prior to joining the Labor Department, served as an officer in the American Rights at Work, which attempted to ensure the Employee Free Choice Act was passed, therebyenshrining forced union membership in federal law. Here’s the story. With billions of potential dues dollars…
Read MoreWorst Union Hypocrisy Yet
This story should be entered into Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not.” Union bosses across the country are pushing a minimum wage level of $15 but only for nonunion businesses. Attempting to dress it up as a “fairness” issue, it appears only nonunionized businesses are being hit over the head with the proposals. Already unionnized businesses…
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