labor law

  • AFL-CIO Convention: Free Choice Confusion, Invisible to Delegates

    Stewart Acuff, coordinator of the AFL-CIO's Employee Free Choice Act campaign, told Labor Notes that a deal on EFCA has been made: it’s the same three provisions as the original bill except that we’ll get expedited elections—seven days—instead of card check. (The other two are heavier penalties for labor law violations during organizing drives and some form of arbitration of first contracts.)

  • AFL-CIO Convention: Reform? We'll take it!

    Asked whether the AFL-CIO would stick to earlier statements that the federation will not support a health care reform bill without a government-insurance “public option,” incoming federation President Rich Trumka ducked this morning.

  • Organizing With or Without EFCA
    Jane Slaughter
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:04pm
  • EFCA: What’s on the Table?
    Jane Slaughter
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:02pm
  • Labor Law Reform, One State at a Time
    Ashok Kumar and Joel Feingold
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:01pm
  • Rite Aid Campaign ‘Poster Child’ for Faltering Employee Free Choice Act

    Author(s):
    Jennifer Sargent

    Excerpt:
    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. . . .

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  • Is Fighting for Justice at Smithfield Racketeering?

    Author(s):
    Jane Slaughter

    Excerpt:
    Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company’s business practices? Is it a “conspiracy” if advocates call for boycotts, organize rallies, or press for resolutions from elected bodies? Smithfield Foods, the largest producer of pork products in the world, is hoping so, after a lawsuit it filed last October passed an initial court challenge. . . .

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