Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/53/)
As top union leaders started sifting through AFL-CIO reorganization proposals, two more top unions–AFSCME and the Machinists–unveiled their own plans: AFSCME, which pushed political action, and IAM, which says ‘go slow.”
After nearly one month of investigation, the Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MN/OSHA) found that Cintas Corp committed 21 serious safety and health violations and fined the company over $15,000.
With debate over AFL-CIO reorganization heating up, the federation launched its own website on the revamp, soliciting suggestions from union members nationwide.
Union members continue to have dramatically better workplace benefits than nonunion workers, according to new research by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
An ?open letter? circulated by the presidents of 12 AFL-CIO central labor councils ? including Shar Knutson of the Saint Paul Trades and Labor Assembly ? warns that changes in the AFL-CIO at the national level will not work without significant changes that build powerful local union movements as well.
With the presidential election over, labor will once again push organizing–hard. Strategies to build the ranks of unions are at the core of a the debate currently raging within the labor movement.
Members of United Transportation Union Locals 650 and 1614 raised $1,000 at their holiday party to aid Utah miners who have been fired and endured many hardships for trying to form a union.
Add the Teamsters to the list of unions that want to shake up the AFL-CIO–and add them to the list of those who want union mergers.
Twin Cities Building Trades unions, engaged in a simmering dispute with contractors hired by the rapidly expanding CVS pharmacy chain, appear to have reached a truce this month during a long-delayed meeting with CVS officials.
Five hundred people who care about the future of the labor movement gathered at the City University of New York on Dec. 2-3. But they agreed on little about its prospects, except for two points: The movement needs to stop shrinking and start growing, and that George W. Bush is bad news.