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Flight Attendants Push for Equal Benefits for Domestic Partners

Leave a Comment / discrimination, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Flight attendants who work for Spirit Airlines filed a lawsuit against the airline for reneging on a contractual commitment to provide equal benefits for all employees by forcing employees who want health care coverage for their domestic partners into a lower-quality health care plan than the plan covering other employees. The flight attendants, members of the Flight …

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It’s Time To Mobilize Workers’ Capital

Leave a Comment / unemployment, unions / By max cyril

Here’s a riddle: what large entity has the theoretical access to deploy a few trillion dollars, quickly, if given the chance? If you answered the Chinese or US governments, thank you for playing and please try again another time. The answer: labor unions. Piling up around the world is the largest and most accessible source …

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Labor Secretary Solis Resigns

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, health care, Labor Day, unemployment, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues, workplace safety / By max cyril

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigned today. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Solis “brought urgently needed change to the Department of Labor, putting the U.S. government firmly on the side of working families.” Under Secretary Solis, the Labor Department became a place of safety and support for workers. Secretary Solis’s Department of Labor talks tough …

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Why Picket Lines Matter

Leave a Comment / unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues, workplace safety / By max cyril

I spent so much time on picket lines as a kid that when I thought my dad’s rules were too strict, I would run to build a sign on a stick and try to talk the neighbor kids into marching around the house with me. I learned early on the power of a picket to …

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New Agreement Means $2.2M in Back Pay, New Work for Florida IATSE Members

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Stagehands in West Palm Beach, Fla., will secure regular work and share some $2.2 million in back pay after Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 500 and the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Artsreached agreement on a five-year contract that settles charges in a dispute that began in 2001. The agreement was reached in late December and approved today by …

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NLRB’s Recent Significant Decisions

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The NLRB in the past few weeks made public a number of significant decisions, most reached in the final days of the term of Member Brian Hayes, which ended on December 16. The Board continues with three members, Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce and Members Richard F. Griffin, Jr. and Sharon Block. The decisions touch on …

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Workplace Advice: My Fair Share

Leave a Comment / accountability, health care, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues, workplace safety / By max cyril

My Fair Share is a cross-post from Working America’s Dear David workplace advice column. David knows you deserve to be treated fairly on the job and he’s available to answer your questions, whether it is co-workers making off-handed comments that you should retire or you feel like your job’s long hours are causing stress. Question: What can you do about not being paid a …

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As New Jobs Return, Employers Slash Wages

Leave a Comment / accountability, economy, unemployment, unions, wages, wealth, work sharing, workplace ethics, workplace issues, young workers / By max cyril

New data has shown that while a majority of jobs eliminated during the downturn were in what we describe as the middle range of wages, the great majority of jobs added as the economy improves were low paying jobs, reported Katherine Rampell in the business section of the New York Times on Friday, August 31, …

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Walmart Tells Workers Who Ask About Unions That Benefits And Vacation ‘Might Go Away’

Leave a Comment / discrimination, unions, Wal Mart, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Walmart staves off unionization attempts in its stores by telling workers who ask about forming a union that they may lose benefits and vacation time, a potential violation of American labor law that could further inflame relations between the company and workers who picketed its stores on Black Friday and have been attempting to organize. Walmart …

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How “Right to Work Shirk” Laws Kill Jobs – and Hurt All of Us

Leave a Comment / accountability, Employment, Equal Opportunity, equal pay, executive pay, organization, regulation, Right to Work & At-Will employment, unions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Michigan’s recent battle makes this a good time to explain the union movement’s important role in our economy’s overall health. We’re about to explain why today’s war on unions is bad for all of us, no matter what we do for a living, and we’ll do it in four steps. But first a word about …

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