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NLRB Chairman: New Penalties Needed for Union-Busting of Undocumented Workers

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, Employment, Equal Opportunity, immigration, Migrant Workers, NLRB, unions / By max cyril

NEW YORK CITY—National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark Pearce says his agency could pursue new remedies to punish employers who retaliate against undocumented immigrants for organizing. Last year Pearce interpreted a 2002 Supreme Court decision to rule out back pay as a remedy in such cases, limiting the NLRB’s options of financial penalties. Interviewed Friday by Working …

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Workers Try to Organize Airport Subway, Get Fired

How to Restore the Power of Unions?

Leave a Comment / unions / By max cyril

Julius Getman’s latest book offers a compelling answer In the early 1990s, trade unionists in the United States abandoned the strike as a central component of trade union strategy. In its place, unionists and academic supporters focused on organizing the unorganized, one-day strikes and community campaigns. Yet on the main concern of the traditional labor …

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Some Things I Took Away From The Organizing Conference Last Week

Leave a Comment / labor, organization, unions / By max cyril

Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Organizing Conference in NYC. It was an incredible event packed with hundreds of online organizers from around the country. While I think the conference was a tremendous success, I think we, in labor, have a long way to go. We have the daunting task of internal organizing so …

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NLRB Chairman: New Penalties Needed for Union-Busting of Undocumented Workers

Workers Try to Organize Airport Subway, Get Fired

How to Restore the Power of Unions?

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