Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/28/)
The National Mediation Board has mailed telephone and Internet voting instructions to nearly 100 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines flight simulator technicians, opening a three week voting period in the first Machinists Union election since Delta acquired Northwest.
Union membership in the United States stayed steady from 2008 to 2009, but dipped in Minnesota, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Erroll Southers, the Obama administration’s nominee to head the troubled Transportation Security Administration – the agency that runs airport screening – withdrew his name from consideration Jan. 20.
Transportation security officers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have formed a local of the American Federation of Government Employees while they await federal action enabling them to unionize.
After being investigated by the National Labor Relations Board, retail giant Wal-Mart has agreed to post a notice that it won’t violate workers’ rights at its Hastings, Minn., store.
Twin Cities janitors, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 26, are waging a struggle for good jobs that also protect the environment. View videos of their recent march through downtown Minneapolis and their 2009 convention.
The Machinists Union has presented the National Mediation Board an additional 12,000 signed post cards expressing support for its proposed rule change to make air and rail union elections more democratic. Monday was the end of the NMB\’s public comment period.
A nationwide campaign to organize 40,000 airport security screeners includes workers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where union organizers and supporters are taking part in a week of solidarity actions.
In 1983, a typical union member was a white man, often working in a factory. One of every two unionists had a high-school diploma, at most. Twenty-five years later, that’s all changed.
By a 2-to-1 margin, the National Mediation Board says it’s time to bring democracy and majority rule to rail and airline workers voting whether to join a union.