Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/24/)
Ground workers and flight attendants at Delta Air Lines are currently voting on whether they wish to be represented by a union. A new Web video documents an Oct. 17th rally where workers spoke about why they want a voice on the job.
Nearly 200 Registered Nurses at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, have been forced to issue a formal petition to the National Labor Relations Board after hospital officials refused to address and honor their request to join the Minnesota Nurses Association.
Workers at 10 Jimmy John’s franchise locations in Minneapolis are crying foul after a unionization effort failed by only two votes.
Jimmy John\’s workers and supporters rallied Monday, kicking off the final countdown to an unprecedented union election Friday at the Minneapolis-based franchise of the national sandwich chain.
Ground workers at Delta Air Lines began voting last week in historic elections that could bring collective bargaining rights to more than 30,000 employees. On Sunday, the union seeking to represent those workers, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, rallied to build support.
Some 14,000 Delta Air Lines fleet service workers began voting Thursday whether to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Workers at Delta Air Lines will hold a major rally Sunday to promote their efforts to unionize thousands of workers at the carrier.
The Change To Win board elected United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen as the labor federation’s new chair on Sept. 30. It also elected Teamsters President James Hoffa as secretary-treasurer.
On the first day of their union vote, Delta Air Lines flight attendants encountered turbulence when they were told they had too many people at the transit center where crews arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is seeking volunteers to help staff its call center during the union vote.