labor law

  • Senate Gridlock Cripples NLRB
    Michael J. Goldberg
    Feb 22 2010 - 7:16am

    The National Labor Relations Board, crippled for years, will continue its dysfunction as political wrangling in the Senate and President Obama’s failure to make recess appointments leaves three of five board seats unfilled. That means Bush-era anti-union decisions will stay on the books for years.

  • Labor Board Puts NY Call Center Workers on Hold
    Call center workers in New York overcame a brutal yet predictable anti-union campaign, but are stuck as management stalls first-contract talks. The National Labor Relations Board, with only two of five seats filled as the Senate dithers, is painfully slow to respond to workers' pleas. They and their union, the Communications Workers, aren't waiting, and took the fight directly to management Friday.
  • Labor Needs a New Survival Plan—Now
    For trade unionists already frustrated and disappointed with Obama, the collateral damage of the Democrat's defeat in Massachusetts is far worse than giving up on the unworkable mess of his health plan. As one dismayed union official in Washington, D.C., told me: “It’s the end of labor law reform for another generation.” There's no time to waste: We need a “Plan B” for more “bargaining to organize” that would better use remaining pockets of union strength before they disappear.
  • AFL-CIO Convention: Free Choice Confusion, Invisible to Delegates

    Stewart Acuff, coordinator of the AFL-CIO's Employee Free Choice Act campaign, told Labor Notes that a deal on EFCA has been made: it’s the same three provisions as the original bill except that we’ll get expedited elections—seven days—instead of card check. (The other two are heavier penalties for labor law violations during organizing drives and some form of arbitration of first contracts.)

  • AFL-CIO Convention: Reform? We'll take it!

    Asked whether the AFL-CIO would stick to earlier statements that the federation will not support a health care reform bill without a government-insurance “public option,” incoming federation President Rich Trumka ducked this morning.

  • Organizing With or Without EFCA
    Jane Slaughter
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:04pm
  • EFCA: What’s on the Table?
    Jane Slaughter
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:02pm
  • Labor Law Reform, One State at a Time
    Ashok Kumar and Joel Feingold
    Aug 27 2009 - 10:01pm
  • Rite Aid Campaign ‘Poster Child’ for Faltering Employee Free Choice Act

    Jennifer Sargent

    As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union. . . .


    Yes
  • Is Fighting for Justice at Smithfield Racketeering?

    Jane Slaughter

    Is it illegal for an activist group or union to criticize a company’s business practices? Is it a “conspiracy” if advocates call for boycotts, organize rallies, or press for resolutions from elected bodies? Smithfield Foods, the largest producer of pork products in the world, is hoping so, after a lawsuit it filed last October passed an initial court challenge. . . .


    Yes