Ohio legislators have passed their bill destroying public sector bargaining rights. But the fight’s not over. Unions will take a referendum to voters, a tactic they've used to beat similar attacks before.
Braving freezing temperatures not far from the shore of the Hudson River, two IUE-CWA locals walked out of a silicone-processing plant January 12 for a two-day grievance strike. Management was stunned the union would strike over a grievance.
Labor Notes' Mark Brenner was on Democracy Now! this morning to analyze the decisive showdown between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the Service Employees (SEIU) coming to a head this week in California.
Nearly eleven months of courtroom stalling has slowed the upstart NUHW but a break in the legal logjam may be coming—finally giving California’s health care workers the ability to choose their union.
As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union. . . .