Organizing
Change to Win Coalition forms in Minnesota
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On the eve of Labor Day weekend, six Minnesota unions that represent more than 140,000 workers announced the formation of the Minnesota Change to Win Coalition.
Organizing
Analysis: Unions turn to ‘Blue Eagle’ organizing tool
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Unions have a little-known tool at their disposal for organizing more workers, Professor Charles Morris, argues in the new book, The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace.
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Labor Day poll: Majority says nation moving in wrong direction
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A growing majority of people say the nation and the economy — both the U.S. economy and their own — are moving in the wrong direction, a new poll for the AFL-CIO shows. And they have little confidence that either GOP President George W. Bush or either party in Congress cares about their needs.
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Commentary: Debate will reinvigorate labor movement
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The media has made much lately of the internal struggles within organized labor. Indeed some pundits have prematurely (and foolishly) pronounced its imminent demise. Be assured, nothing could be further from the truth.
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NLRB deprives workers of right to be organized, lawyer says
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Even as unions debate who to organize, how to organize and how much to spend on organizing, they face a very frightening reality courtesy of the Bush-named majority on the National Labor Relations Board: Decisions that deprive workers of the right to be organized.
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Service unions seek universal labor standards
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A global service union coalition, representing unions of janitors, nurses, telecom workers and other employees, is launching several mass projects to get the global employers it deals with to agree to universal core labor standards, notably the right to organize.
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Commentary: AFL-CIO split brings crisis and opportunity
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The split in the AFL-CIO will have profound consequences for all workers — both bad and good. The current crisis may create the opportunity for our local labor movement to become stronger than ever before.
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Split fractures AFL-CIO on eve of historic convention
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On the eve of the AFL-CIO’s historic 50th anniversary convention, six unions signaled they are ready to split from the federation.
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Change to Win announcement draws picket line
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In an unusual twist at an unusual AFL-CIO convention, union members picketed other union members to voice their opposition to a split in the federation.
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Minnesotans disappointed, pledge unity
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Minnesota unionists attending the national AFL-CIO convention said they are disappointed by the split in the federation, given the strong cooperative history of labor in the state.