organizing

  • ‘Union Stooges'? The NLRB Is No Panacea for Workers

    Three New Year appointments to the National Labor Relations Board assure that it will continue to operate. But while unions are celebrating the NLRB’s ability to keep the lights on, along with a handful of union-supportive decisions by the board, the hard fact is that even when the NLRB is operational, it doesn’t work for workers.

  • Cablevision Workers Lead MLK Day March as Disparities Fuel Union Drive
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 16 2012 - 10:05am

    Cablevision's Brooklyn technicians will lead a Martin Luther King Day march with the Reverend Al Sharpton to protest the company's racial disparities and prepare for a January 26 union election vote.

  • New York Governor, SEIU 1199 Raise Hackles with Medicaid Deal
    Mark Brenner
    Jan 9 2011 - 9:48am

    New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.

  • Comcast Techs Fall Short after Six Weeks of Intimidation

    After a year of fruitless attempts to meet with management, frustrated Comcast technicians at the Fall River and Fairhaven garages in Massachusetts sought an NLRB supervised election six weeks ago.

    Votes were counted Wednesday and union supporters fell short. Labor law would have compelled management to finally begin the long-sought-after negotiations if techs won a majority vote.

  • 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.

  • SEIU Settles Sodexo’s Racketeering Suit, with Organizing Gains Uncertain
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 14 2011 - 10:05am

    The Service Employees' corporate campaign at the food-service giant Sodexo ended September in secrecy. It’s unclear if the agreement includes provisions that organizers say have led to success elsewhere.

  • California Farmworkers Rebound after Veto
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Sep 25 2011 - 11:38am
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    California Governor Jerry Brown’s June veto of a bill making it easier for the state’s 400,000 farmworkers to organize caught the Farm Workers union (UFW) by surprise.

  • SEIU: Nursing Home Boss Cheats Workers, Founds 'Institute for Justice'

    Nursing home workers in the Northeast say the owner of their chain cheated them and used the proceeds to fund an institute of justice at New York University.

  • Store Workers Say: Whose Walmart? OUR Walmart!
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 29 2011 - 7:45am

    Fear is the main thing stopping retail workers from organizing for better treatment at Walmart, said several employees who are doing just that. They lost their fear, they said, after they stood up for themselves and marched on Walmart headquarters.

  • Can Big-Box Retail Be Organized?
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 16 2011 - 12:34pm

    Target workers in Valley Stream, Long Island vote on union representation tomorrow. The election is the first at any of Target’s 1,755 stores and a win would crack the solidly anti-union wall surrounding big-box retail.