Working Life

It feels like this arrived via the Pony Express but…here’s the Change To Win constitution for the truly obsessed. There will be a test…

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Keep an eye on where the money goes, I always says–and, if I was one of the Central Labor Council leaders, I’d keep my eye on the recent special 4 cents per capita hike like I’d watch the pea being shuffled by the hustlers in Times Square. Which is a way of saying: tomorrow the […]

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I was scratching my head a bit about all the praises being sung by some of you’all for Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg in response to yesterday’s post about the teachers’ contract in NY. And, then, this a.m. The New York Times helps the discussion a bit with the headline: “Mayor May Not Shout G.O.P. But […]

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It doesn’t seem to me that teachers in New York City got a huge boost from the deal announced yesterday between the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the city–but the mayor probably came close to assuring, if not guaranteeing, his re-election. And this whole chapter has been just another sorry reminder of the state […]

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I like this: threaten the companies that want to dance with Schwarzennegger and his dangerous initiative to crippled unions. From the Los Angeles Times today (a snippet is below): Unions Working a New Tactic Against Governor Labor leaders contact firms to stem donations to Schwarzenegger’s initiative campaigns.By Michael Finnegan Times Staff WriterOctober 3, 2005Escalating its […]

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One of the strategies in trying to topple the Beast of Bentonville is setting up a non-union workers association as the first outreach vehicle to Wal-Mart workers; not a single Wal-Mart store in unionized. Today’s USA Today carries an AP story on the first big effort in central Florida (a bit of it is below). […]

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With White House Counsel Harriet Miers about to be nominated in a few minutes, according to news wire reports, to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, here is a story from today’s Wall Street Journal that is worth reading. The news media’s focus on abortion and other social issues usually leaves out the critical labor issues the […]

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Here’s a little item on a sleepy Sunday (I’m celebrating the Yankees’ clinching the division yesterday…). It’s a press release so that’s why it’s a rah-rah tone. TUKWILA – Leaders of the Public School Employees of Washington today (Oct. 1) voted unanimously to recommend affiliation with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), to form the […]

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Well, it was on my list to see and I’m a Jodie Foster fan but “Flightplan” is now off my list. Apparently, the thriller does not portray flight attendants in a very nice light so, as you may have heard, the three major flight attendants’ unions have called for a boycott of the film. Here’s […]

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One of our commenters suggested I open up a thread on diversity. Okay, let’s do it. I’ve reprinted the speech given by Edgar Romney, who is now the Change To Win secretary-treasurer–the first African American to hold such a post in a U.S. labor federation (he’s also a vice president of UNITE HERE). In addition, […]

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