contract campaign

  • San Francisco Hotel Workers Walk Out
    Catherine-Mercedes B. Judge
    Nov 10 2009 - 4:20pm

    Hotel workers at two San Francisco hotels have announced three-day strikes in the last week. The actions come during a major push at the city's hotels, where union workers are fighting a host of concession demands.

  • UNITE HERE Won't Concede to Big Hotels
    Paul Abowd
    Oct 28 2009 - 10:22am

    UNITE HERE has launched another round of contract battles with hotel giants. After civil disobedience actions workers in Chicago and San Francisco authorized strikes, escalating a nationally coordinated “bargain to organize” campaign.

  • Longshore Reformers Shut Down Secret Contract Deal
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 26 2009 - 10:24pm

    Rank-and-file reformers in the East Coast Longshoremen’s (ILA) union have had a busy summer. The Longshore Workers Coalition (LWC) exposed secret contract negotiations and channeled member outrage against the deal, deepening a rift among top leaders.

  • Communications Workers Crash Wall St. To Protest AT&T's CEO
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 17 2009 - 3:16pm

    CWA Local 1298, which represents AT&T telecommunications workers in Connecticut, protested CEO Randall Stephenson as he made a presentation at a Goldman Sachs event on Wall Street Thursday. More than 4,000 CWA members in Connecticut have been without a contract since April.

  • T-shirts Too Much for AT&T; Company Suspends Hundreds
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 9 2009 - 4:07pm

    When AT&T demanded Communications Workers (CWA) members in Connecticut take off T-shirts announcing they were the company’s “prisoners,” they took a day’s suspension rather than back down. About 200 members were suspended Tuesday.

  • Bargaining in a Recession
    Derek Blackadder
    Jun 23 2009 - 11:52am

    There’s no rocket science to a contract campaign during a recession. But it is different. You can even come out the other side with a stronger union. Here are a few ideas on how.

  • Taking a Contract Campaign Public

    Author(s):
    Carol Lambiase

    Excerpt:
    As town leaders in Wallingford, Connecticut, grudgingly lined up to approve health care benefits for the school district’s paraprofessionals, they complained they felt browbeaten into taking their toughest vote ever. . . .

    Body:
    Town leaders in Wallingford, Connecticut, complained that they felt browbeaten by these school district para professionals, who built an effective public campaign for health benefits. Photo: Carol Lambiase

    As town leaders in Wallingford, Connecticut, grudgingly lined up to approve health care benefits for the school district’s paraprofessionals, they complained they felt browbeaten into taking their toughest vote ever.

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  • A Contract Campaign Across Unions

    Author(s):
    Doug Swanson

    Excerpt:
    As Wisconsin faces a nearly $6 billion budget deficit, state employee unions are determined to make sure the crisis isn’t “solved” on our backs. All union contracts with the state will expire June 30. As we strategize, we’re remembering our successful campaign—“A Deal’s a Deal”—from 2003. . . .

    Body:
    As Wisconsin faces a nearly $6 billion budget deficit, state employee unions are determined to make sure the crisis isn’t “solved” on our backs. All union contracts with the state will expire June 30. As we strategize, we’re remembering our successful campaign—“A Deal’s a Deal”—from 2003.

    In February 2003 a joint committee of the Wisconsin legislature refused to approve 16 agreements that had been ratified by the members of six state employees’ unions. Over the years, state employees had consistently been used as punching bags by many of the legislators holding the contracts hostage.

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  • Health Care Local Charges SEIU Is Shutting Members Out of Bargaining & Organizing

    Author(s):
    Mark Brenner

    Excerpt:
    A long-simmering dispute over the direction of the Service Employees has erupted inside the union, pitting leaders of the 150,000-member United Healthcare Workers—West against top International officials. UHW President Sal Rosselli and other executive board members contend that the International is taking too much control of organizing and bargaining contracts away from local unions. . . .

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  • Verizon Workers Prepare for Contract Fight: At Stake, Health Care, Job Security, Wages, Internet Access

    Author(s):
    Pam Galpern

    Excerpt:
    Thorny issues are coming to a head in the six-month countdown to the contract expiration at Verizon, the nation’s second-largest telecommunications firm. The contract covering 55,000 Communication Workers (CWA) and more than 10,000 Electrical Workers (IBEW) expires August 2. . . .

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