Working Life

A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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    Ben Smith of the Politico talked to me New Year’s Eve about whether Sen. Obama was doing long-lasting damage to his relations with labor because of his criticism of 527 money flowing in to Iowa in support of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Obama never actually used the words "special interest" and "unions" in […]

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    Ben Smith of the Politico talked to me New Year’s Eve about whether Sen. Obama was doing long-lasting damage to his relations with labor because of his criticism of 527 money flowing in to Iowa in support of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Obama never actually used the words "special interest" and "unions" in […]

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    Yours truly is headed to Bali on Wednesday as part of an international labor delegation to the United Nations climate change summit. The delegation hopes to articulate labor’s position about the threat to the planet. I can’t publish here–yet–the draft version of the statement.  But, will do so when I can and hope to […]

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    Yours truly is headed to Bali on Wednesday as part of an international labor delegation to the United Nations climate change summit. The delegation hopes to articulate labor’s position about the threat to the planet. I can’t publish here–yet–the draft version of the statement.  But, will do so when I can and hope to […]

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    This was interesting. Yesterday, the AFL-CIO and UFCW issued a joint press release about a victory in a long battle: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will finally require–drumroll, please-employers to pay for safety-related materials like goggles, fire-resistant clothing, face shields, hard hats and other safety equipment. Only in America–or other societies where workers […]

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    Last week, the AFL-CIO filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) against the Bush National Labor Relations Board (I’m going to try to upload the complaint here but right now we are, as they say, experiencing technical difficulties…or maybe I’m just more lame than I thought). It’s a good indictment of the […]

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    I’m trying to keep election news t a minimum so we can focus on labor and workers’ issues that get less discussion but, let’s face it, people want to know and politics will dominate even more in 2008. So…though he didn’t get the national union’s endorsement, John Edwards did pretty well yesterday as nine  […]

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  (This is the fourth installment of an occasional update on where the labor movement is ending up in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination)   At this point, this is really not a surprise: the Service Employees International Union has chosen not to endorse, at the national level, any one candidate, freeing up […]

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