Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/45/)
After 18 months of investigation, the General Counsel of the National
Labor Relations Board has found merit in charges that uniform laundry
giant, Cintas Corp., violated federal labor law at 19 facilities
in several states, including Minnesota.
A janitorial service company that failed to pay overtime to its employees in Hennepin County and did not pay sales taxes in Ramsey County does not deserve another chance at a county contract, the Service Employees International Union said Monday.
After solving technical details in coming weeks, the Laborers will become the latest union to leave the AFL-CIO, President Terry O’Sullivan said.
Migrant workers employed by Seneca Foods will demonstrate Thursday to oppose working conditions at the company and demand dignity and respect.
The new Change to Win labor federation, formed by unions representing nearly 6 million workers, will keep its focus on organizing millions more people into unions, its leadership said.
The Change to Win Coalition, composed of unions that left the AFL-CIO, will hold the founding convention of a
new labor federation in St. Louis on Tuesday.
Putting an end, they hope, to conflict in southern California and potential battles elsewhere, AFSCME and the SEIU signed a two-year, “no-raiding” pact, the two unions announced. The agreement also commits the two organizations to joint organizing campaigns.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called on the Department of Labor, in a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, to protect the health and safety of rescue and recovery workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to provide employment assistance to displaced workers, and to ensure that the relief, recovery and rebuilding jobs conform with wage and labor standards.
The General Executive Board of UNITE HERE has voted to disaffiliate from the AFL-CIO, the union announced Wednesday.
The Executive Board of UNITE HERE, meeting at the Saint Paul Hotel this week, may announce a decision Wednesday on whether it will remain an affiliate of the AFL-CIO