How to Avoid No-Strike Contract Clauses
One thing you can be sure of when bargaining your first contract: management will demand a contract clause barring strikes while the agreement is in effect.
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Management Rights: A Pitfall When Negotiating Your First Contract
Management rights clauses have found their way into almost all union contracts.
Viewpoint: We Must Prepare to Strike UPS in 2023
The year 2023, when the UPS contract expires, seems like a long way off—but in the complex world of contract negotiation, it’s just around the corner. In the 24 years since the 1997 strike, UPS has become the poster child for corporate greed—demanding more and more from its employees in a quest for profits. And rather …
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Serena Williams’ French Open ordeal proves maternity rights in pro sports have a long way to go
Last month, Serena Williams — the greatest athlete of our time (don’t @ me, it’s true) — played in her first major tournament since giving birth to her daughter. But, as excited as fans and media touts were to have her back competing, most were outraged when they discovered that she would have to enter …
Labor Day 2017: Working People Take Fewer Vacation Days and Work More
Working people are taking fewer vacation days and working more. That’s the top finding in a new national survey, conducted by polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the AFL-CIO in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute and the Labor Project for Working Families. In the survey, the majority of America’s working people credit labor unions …
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If Uber Wants to Take Away Its Customers’ Rights, It Should Tell Them
It’s bad enough that a ton of corporations require their customers and employees to submit all their legal claims to private arbitration, a secretive system that is rigged against the individual. But to compound the unfairness, a growing number of corporations are hiding their forced arbitration clauses to make them more and more obscure. As …
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A Big Win for Senate Cafeteria Workers
A sustained campaign on behalf of Senate cafeteria workers – including a 63-year-old employee who was homeless because he could not earn enough money to afford an apartment – has succeeded this week in getting these workers a desperately needed boost in pay and benefits. Thanks to the organizing efforts of Good Jobs Nation and …
Save the Seventh
The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution states, “In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved …” Even though we are all granted the right to a trial by jury in the U.S. Constitution, Big Banks and corporations regularly …
Unite Here and Hyatt Hotels Reach Broad Peace Agreement
Hospitality workers union Unite Here has reached an expansive labor agreement with Hyatt Hotels Corp that is expected to end a years-long series of workplace struggles that has attracted attention around the country and across the globe. The agreement is aimed at ending the union’s ‘Hyatt Hurts’ global boycott campaign by settling outstanding labor contract issues at nine broadly scattered hotels …
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Exploited Filipino Teachers in Louisiana Win Historic Court Decision
Just in time for yesterday’s celebration of International Migrants Day, a federal court jury ruled on Monday that Universal Placement International of Los Angeles and its owner, Lourdes Navarro, must pay $4.5 million to 350 Filipino teachers who were forced into exploitative contracts. According to the AFT, the Filipino teachers were brought to Louisiana after Hurricane …
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