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In this issue:
Union Bailout Update Bill Would Permit Merit Pay in Union Shops Machinists Striking Once a Member Always a Member Labor Relations Insight, Sticky Fingers and more…
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Labor Relations Insight by Phillip Wilson
What have we learned in the first week of the “ambush election” rules?
There are two questions I’ve been asked a lot over the last couple of months, and especially in the last week:
Will petitions increase after the new “ambush election” rules go into effect? How far will election times decrease under the new “ambush election” rules?
Here’s what we’ve seen
Continue reading INK May 10, 2012
In this issue:
• Union Bailout Update • Yes, America, the Unions Are Killing Your Twinkies • Will the Unions Screw Up the Superbowl? • Laborers Vow Never to Forget Keystone • Picket Line Do’s and Don’ts • Teamsters Watch, Sticky Fingers and more…
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Union Bailout Update
The NLRB held a “meet and greet” on Jan. 12 between lawmakers and the three newly sworn in Board members at the center of the latest NLRB firestorm. Members of Congress were denied the chance to question or even scan the resumes of Richard Griffin and Sharon Block as the two Democrats’ names were only first
Continue reading INK January 19, 2012
 To listen to the build-up you’d have thought the first post-Madison May Day would be apocalyptic. And instead it was another May Day yawner with union staffers and staff wanna-bes marching to demand the usual – higher wages, more jobs, cheaper benefits and an assortment of intangibles including justice, fairness, equality and “workers’ rights.” And, as usual, these demands were made without offer of any coherent plan for actually achieving them beyond taxing the rich, creating more government, reading more Chomsky and chanting really loud.
The AFL-CIO promised/threatened an unprecedented turnout but protests here in the U.S. were dwarfed by those overseas: in Turkey, 200,000 protestors flooded the plaza of Istanbul; in Germany, 420,000 people took to the streets to demand fair wages, better working conditions and sufficient
Continue reading Just Another May Day
 Through three decades of steady decline, the United Auto Workers has projected somewhat of a “we’ve got ours” attitude towards new organizing. Not anymore. Under the leadership of radical activist Bob King, for the first time since 2005, the UAW gained members in 2010 adding over 21,000 members. (The union’s membership in 2009 was the lowest it had been since 1940.) Increased production at the Big Three accounted for the majority of those new UAW members, but the union has also been aggressive organizing outside of manufacturing in casinos, healthcare, colleges and other sectors.
And the union will soon announce the target of its most aggressive organizing effort in recent memory – a foreign auto manufacturer with plants in the southern U.S. Over the past year the union
Continue reading Not Your Dad’s UAW
The number of unionized healthcare workers in Florida has risen by almost a third in the last year according to The Florida Times-Union. Most of that growth has been in Hospital Corporation of America facilities that signed neutrality agreements with the major healthcare unions last year.
“From a hospital’s viewpoint, unions can divide the workplace, restrict management’s ability to make decisions and cut profits’, said Miami lawyer Bob Norton, who helps hospital administrators fight unions. ‘Look at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where employees are members of 1991 SEIU’, he said. ‘The hospital is plagued by administrative problems and $500 million in debt. You’ve got union people constantly going around and contesting the decisions made by their supervisors,’ he said. ‘What that has done in terms of damage to the hospital is probably beyond repair.’”
  
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In this issue:
Union Bailout Update All Mobbed Up Indoctrinating The Young Scoreboard, Social Media Spotlight, Sticky Fingers and more…
Union Bailout Update  Wow – it seems that as soon as the EFCA was put to rest, every government friend of Big Labor, from the halls of Congress to the backrooms of bureaucratic agencies, has opened their toolbox to find every possible way to continue to work on behalf of their benefactors. Fortunately, friends of American Enterprise seem to have stepped up their engagement in the tug-of-war.
Our story below (Public Union Debacle…explains the effort of
Continue reading INK: January 20, 2011
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In this issue:
EFCA Update Stern Signs Off Truth & Disclosure SEIU Watch, ULP Charge Of The Month, Scoreboard and more…
EFCA Update
Claire Mccaskill
Speculation continues to spiral in just about every direction about the likelihood that “EFCA” will come to pass, either as legislation or as regulatory changes via the National Labor Relations Board. On the legislative side, Senator McCaskill (D – MO) summed up the legislative school of thought: “I don’t think that card-check is going to come up,” referencing the current session of Congress. However, as we have mentioned before, various elements of
Continue reading INK: April 22, 2010
Labor Relations INK
In This Issue:
• EFCA Update • AFL-CIO Targets Young Workers • Union Funds ATM for Union Official • SEIU Watch, Only In A Union, and more…
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Labor Relations Insight from Phil Wilson
Promoters and Detractors
 Your ear is still ringing. It’s been several minutes since the last call, but you can’t bear to count how
Continue reading INK: April 8, 2010
Labor Relations INK
In This Issue:
• Labor Relations Insight by Phil Wilson • EFCA Update • Health Industry In For Rough Ride • Soak The Rich To Create More Union Jobs • SEIU Watch, and more…
Labor Relations Insight from Phil Wilson
Open Government?
 Yesterday I got an interesting email from the Department of Labor. The DOL is soliciting ideas for “Open Government.”
“Open government” ranks right up there with “jumbo shrimp” or “civil war” in the oxymoron department. I’d love to see an estimate of the carbon footprint of the Freedom of Information
Continue reading INK: March 12, 2010
 Installation repair technicians at Comcast in Fairfield, N.J. recently elected to be represented by the Electrical Workers Local 827. According to the AFL-CIO blog,
Union leaders say this latest win will likely have a ripple effect, setting a precedent for future efforts. IBEW Telecommunications Director Martha Pultar said this victory is a good sign for more than a dozen other ongoing Comcast campaigns from New England to Washington and Oregon.
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