EFCA

  • NLRB Moving to Speed Union Elections
    Michael J. Goldberg
    Dec 6 2011 - 4:55pm

    The National Labor Relations Board is readying to adopt rules that accelerate union representation elections, but staunch opposition from employers and their political allies in Washington imperils the rule—and the agency itself.

  • Why Not Give Up? Here’s Why.

    Woe’s me. Woe’s us! Things today are going the exact wrong way for working people. So why get up each morning and face another day of the fight? Because we are the living, breathing resistance movement to corporate control and crushing authoritarianism, and we are fighting every day, everywhere.

  • 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.

  • IKEA Comes Clean: Worker Rights “Not Applicable”

    Image-conscious global brand operating in a repressive environment seeks to downplay workers’ complaints. No surprise. But this story has a couple of twists. For one, the repressive environment is the state of Virginia.

  • To Change Labor Law, Put Union Busting on Trial
    Al Hart
    Apr 1 2010 - 6:17am

    Labor’s campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act appears to have failed. It’s time for our movement to rethink a long-term strategy to change this country’s dysfunctional labor laws, starting by putting modern union busting on trial.

  • Video: Playing the Inside Game

    Bill Fletcher, ex-AFL-CIO staffer and Center for Labor Renewal co-founder, diagnoses the disarray in the U.S. labor movement in a short interview with "The Real News Network," arguing it results from an excessive reliance on an inside-the-Beltway strategy.

  • Labor Board Puts NY Call Center Workers on Hold
    Call center workers in New York overcame a brutal yet predictable anti-union campaign, but are stuck as management stalls first-contract talks. The National Labor Relations Board, with only two of five seats filled as the Senate dithers, is painfully slow to respond to workers' pleas. They and their union, the Communications Workers, aren't waiting, and took the fight directly to management Friday.
  • Labor Needs a New Survival Plan—Now
    For trade unionists already frustrated and disappointed with Obama, the collateral damage of the Democrat's defeat in Massachusetts is far worse than giving up on the unworkable mess of his health plan. As one dismayed union official in Washington, D.C., told me: “It’s the end of labor law reform for another generation.” There's no time to waste: We need a “Plan B” for more “bargaining to organize” that would better use remaining pockets of union strength before they disappear.
  • In a Year of Bad News, Stories of Courage and Resistance
    Labor Notes Staff
    Dec 30 2009 - 11:45am

    After an exuberant opening of 2009, the year brought mostly bad news for workers and the labor movement. As always, though, some soldiered on, creating the stories of courage and resistance to inspire the rest of us.

  • 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.)