What can brown do to FedEx?
Posted on November 20, 2009 at 9:41 am
The team at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research take issue with UPS’ efforts to introduce labor law changes that would hurt one of Tennessee’s largest employers.
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Dems mull stock-trade tax
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 10:52 amThe Hill reports House Democrats, led by Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter, are considering a 0.25 percent tax on all stock transactions as a way to pay for the jobs bill Congressional leaders want passed before the end of session.
The AFL-CIO is backing the plan — which the union first proposed in August — saying it could generate $50 billion to $100 billion annually. Predictably, top financial lobbyists are calling the tax a “permanant handcuff” on the economy.
CHS faces strike at Pa. hospital
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:44 amService Employees International Union representatives have issued a strike notice at Pottstown Memorial Hospital, a Community Health Systems facility where the previous labor contract expired in August. The move comes after CHS officials appear to have gone AWOL.
Speaking at the press conference, hospital workers said their employer failed to “show up” at the three previous meetings in which negotiations were expected to continue. Roy Feick, a certified pharmacy technician at the hospital for five years, said CHS has shown “no respect for us at PMMC or the community of Pottstown … otherwise they would attend negotiations.
“We can’t negotiate with ourselves; we need CHS in the room,” he added.
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A treehugger and a union boss walk into a bar…
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 7:57 am…And come out allies in the battle to preserve America’s jobs base. So sayeth the Hoffa:
“We have been forced to make a false choice in the past—good jobs or a clean environment. The pundits said that if we wanted clean air, the economy would suffer and jobs would be sent overseas. Well, look what happened—we let the big corporations pollute and the jobs went overseas anyway. But today is a new day.”
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Union suing HCA over flu shots
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 11:39 am
The Service Employees International Union says the country’s biggest hospital operator can’t unilaterally require employees to wear surgical masks if they haven’t been immunized against the H1N1 virus.
Union officials say the policy should have been subject to negations since it affects employment terms, but HCA has declined to bargain. HCA officials said the policy is part of their comprehensive infection-control program to protect workers and patients, and they plan to continue moving forward with it.
Union turns up heat on CHS in Pennsylvania
Posted on October 28, 2009 at 11:22 amRepresentatives of the Service Employees International Union have presented a 400-person petition to officials at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, a Community Health Systems hospital outside Philadelphia. The two parties are working to replace a contract that expired in August.
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Still talking
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Representatives of AT&T and the Communications Workers of America don’t have a whole lot to report from the bargaining table in Atlanta. Still, the waters appear to be more calm than they were in the spring.
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Labor deal for Bridgestone
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 7:27 am
Representatives of Bridgestone America Tire Operations and the United Steelworkers have agreed on the broad strokes of a new collective bargaining agreement that will cover more than 2,800 at four factories.
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‘If the economy is this country’s engine, this proposed change is like refusing to use motor oil’
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Miller & Martin attorneys Joseph McCoin and Larry Bridgesmith say the core idea behind the Employee Free Choice Act now before Congress would open the door for unions to “use illegal tactics that drag one business into another unrelated business’ labor troubles.”
Organized labor and its cadre of commentators have repeatedly made claims about the ineffectiveness of the NLRB’s remedial provisions in deterring employer misconduct. It would take a healthy dose of hypocrisy or Pollyannaism for these same voices to suggest that weakening the remedial provisions that apply to organized labor would not also promote misconduct.
CHS’ Spokane labor issues worsening
Posted on September 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm
The National Labor Relations Board has filed charged Community Health Systems with negotiating in bad faith in its dealings with Service Employees International Union members in Spokane, Wash. The development comes six months after Franklin-based CHS first ran into trouble with union workers there, tensions that were exacerbated when the company laid off more than two dozen people.
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In a bad way
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 7:11 amThe opinion page of Investor’s Business Daily sketches the dismal state of organized labor in the United States.
More discouraging for the unions is that their standing in the Gallup survey has never been lower. As recently as 2004, their confidence score was 31%. True, this is just one survey, but it does suggest the public sees union greed and corporate greed as near cousins. And Americans still root for the up-and-coming entrepreneur against just about anyone, including union organizers.
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Bridgestone starts union talks
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 8:28 amExecs from one of the tire maker’s main divisions are sitting down with representatives of the United Steelworkers today to begin negotiating new contracts for almost 3,000 workers.
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HCA Nevada nurses want to organize
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 8:21 amThe California Nurses Association says it has support from more than 400 nurses at HCA’s Mountain View Hospital, saying many are concerned about patient safety. The company’s local executives are pushing back.
“The CNA wants its voice to be heard on this important issue, a voice that makes grandiose promises and so-called guarantees to induce nurses at our hospital to sign union cards,” Wagnon wrote. The voice of the administration “will not be silenced.”
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Teamsters, plastics plant agree new deal
Posted on June 11, 2009 at 2:14 pmTeamsters workers at the Nashville plant of A. Schulman have ratified a new labor agreement. The Grassmere factory employs around 40 after a round a layoffs late last year.
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Spring Hill workers vote for GM deal
Posted on May 29, 2009 at 6:17 amThe men and women of United Auto Workers Local 1853 have overwhelmingly approved the union’s proposed new deal with General Motors, which will give the UAW a stake in the company.
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