union election

  • NY Pension Cuts Fuel Insurgent Public Employees
    Jon Flanders
    Apr 2 2012 - 1:33pm

    New York's governor has led an assault on state employees, spearheading a recent drive for a pension cut. A new caucus inside an influential public sector union is determined to roll back the attacks and re-energize the union.

  • FedEx Package Handlers to Vote on Teamsters
    Patrick Ayers
    Jul 19 2011 - 5:36pm

    If 55 package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in Massachusetts win a union election August 3, it will be the first time ever for handlers at the giant non-union shipper. They’re facing a fierce anti-union campaign.

  • With Election Rule, Labor Board Takes Half Step Forward
    Jenny Brown, Mischa Gaus
    Jun 29 2011 - 10:59am

    The typical union vote in the U.S. subjects workers to two months of interrogation, intimidation, and threats that the shop will close, along with a sprinkling of company smiley-faces. That harrowing period could be shortened this summer.

  • Reformers Win in California Grad Union Election

    Graduate workers across the University of California have voted to transform their union. The Academic Workers for a Democratic Union slate swept all 10 executive board positions and nearly 60 percent of Joint Council positions in United Auto Workers Local 2865. The local is the largest graduate worker union in the country and the largest UAW local in the West, representing 12,000 academic student workers at nine UC campuses.

  • California Grad Students Sit Down for Union Democracy

    Afraid you might lose the vote? Stop the count and run. That’s what incumbent leaders did in United Auto Workers Local 2865, representing 12,000 graduate student workers at the University of California. Members of a reform caucus responded with sit-downs at their union headquarters, demanding their union resume the vote count immediately.

  • Gains and Losses in LA Teachers Union Election
    Joseph Zeccola
    Apr 26 2011 - 11:21am

    The future of teacher-led education reform in Los Angeles was thrown into question last month, when a bread-and-butter candidate won out over a reformer running on a social justice platform to lead the LA teachers union.

  • California Grad Students Seek a Bottom-Up Union

    Thousands of graduate students across nine University of California campuses will vote this week on new leadership for their union. A slate of challengers is pushing to make the local more member-driven and active in the fight to save public education in the state.

  • Hoffa Must Pay to Publicize Bribe Attempts
    Jenny Brown
    Apr 5 2011 - 2:18pm

    After six months of investigation, court-appointed election overseers have ordered Teamster President James Hoffa to acknowledge that he attempted to buy election support by offering jobs and pensions.

  • Election Flyers that Win Votes
    William Johnson, Dan Lutz
    Nov 12 2010 - 9:35am

    When you’re running for local union office, good campaign literature can help you tell members what you stand for and why you should you get their votes. But bad lit can make you look weak, defensive, whiny, unqualified, or all of the above. How do you make the most of your election lit?

  • Teamsters Win Provokes Management Terror Campaign in Ohio Foundry

    Ohio Teamsters are experiencing a classic case of what happens when a company is ready to break the law to keep a union out. Since 125 aluminum foundry workers voted for Akron Teamsters Local 24 in March 2008, management has been barefaced in its refusal to bargain and its discrimination against union supporters, while threatening to sell the plant if workers didn’t decertify the union.