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Becker to the NLRB | Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog HOME ABOUT WRITING ORGANIZATIONS BIOGRAPHY Wade Rathke: Chief Posts Comments Organizer Blog You take it from here to there. Enter your email address: « May Day Flu Ballot Stuffing at Bank of America » Becker to the NLRB Delivered by FeedBurner New Orleans Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the Categories National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)! This is not to say that we do not need labor law reform desperately, but Select Category having crossed paths with Craig for more than 20 years, finally we have a situation where a brilliant, effective, and Blogroll pro-worker/pro-union lawyer will be on the NLRB. The thumbnail sketch would see Craig as a legal scholar ACORN International having been a professor here and there with good union ACORN International on credentials having been listed as associate general counsel Facebook to SEIU for years as well no matter what else he was ACORN International on doing. All true and all good. Twitter For my money Craig’s signal contribution has been his work AFL - CIO in crafting and executing the legal strategies and Change to Win protections which have allowed the effective organization of Organizers Forum informal workers, and by this I mean home health care workers, under the protection of the National Labor SEIU Relations Act. The effective organization of informal SEIU Local 100 workers — home health and home day care — has been WARN Wal-Mart the great, exceptional success story within the American Out June 2009 Click for details labor movement for our generation, leading to the and pre-order information ACORN membership of perhaps a half-million such workers in unions like SEIU, AFSCME, CWA, and the AFT. Further this International on organizational work has led to increases in wages and Twitter benefits for such at-home workers across the board. Craig was the key lawyer from the beginning in the early Tonight saw Gomorra, so 1980’s who was able to piece together the arguments and thinking twice about our representation that allowed those of us involved in trying to project to assist organizing in organize home health care workers in Illinois, Sicily. Still "go," but a lot more Massachusetts, and elsewhere to beat back the arguments carefully! 21 hours ago that such workers should be denied NLRA coverage because Tati and the Chief throwing they were either self-employed or tainted by a co-employer sand on volunteers until Rosi situation where they might be quasi-public employees and Ercilia finally get into this because they were directly reimbursed. His role was often and bury us with the numbers behind the scenes devising the strategy with the organizer from club acorn 2009/05/09 and lawyers, writing the briefs for others to file, and putting All hail Tati -- intern master! all of the pieces together, but he was the go-to-guy on all Let us learn so that we can of this. I can remember Keith Kelleher negotiating the recruit some to stay in ta subsidy for SEIU Local 880 in Chicago and always making game. But,3 Tufts and 4 sure that there was the money for the organizers, but that guelph girls (?). It's on! http://chieforganizer.org/wp/?p=1259[5/10/2009 8:12:36 PM] Becker to the NLRB | Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog SEIU was also still willing to allow access to Craig. 2009/05/08 Craig Becker will no longer be a secret weapon for workers at the NLRB, particularly informal workers who desperately Chief Organizer need protections under labor law, but at least with him sitting on the board, there will finally once again be a fair Tag Cloud and effective advocate and safeguard for workers. Thanks ACORN Canada for a solid, President Obama! ACORN International Bailouts canada CAW Citizen Wealth Club ACORN Community Organizing CWP development dominican republic EFCA Employee Free Choice Act facebook Financial Justice flu Foreclosure Immigration immigration reform income Internships Issues and Ideas labor Labor Organizing living wages mayday minimum wages New Orleans NOLA NYT Obama Organizer Training Organizing Ottawa public April 30th, 2009 | Tags: Employee Free Choice Act, Labor health Remittances SEIU SEIU Organizing | Category: Employee Free Choice Act, Labor 100 social media Steelworkers Organizing | Leave a comment Toronto twitter wages wal- mart WARN Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website You can use these HTML tags http://chieforganizer.org/wp/?p=1259[5/10/2009 8:12:36 PM] Becker to the NLRB | Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog Copyright © 2009 Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress · Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll http://chieforganizer.org/wp/?p=1259[5/10/2009 8:12:36 PM].