Renewing and Maintaining Union Vitality: New Approaches to Union Growth
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Why a Union Voice Makes a Real Difference for Women Workers: Then and Now
Why a Union Voice Makes a Real Difference for Women Workers: Then and Now Judith A. Scottt ABSTRACT: Working women, labor unions, and collective action played a crucial role in passing and implementing the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The Article describes how labor unions pushed for the passage of the Act and later made protections for pregnant workers real through collective bargaining, internal education efforts, and litigation. Finally, the Article discusses the fundamental improvements for working women that still must be achieved- and the need for strengthened worker organizations if those changes are to become a reality. IN TRO DU CTION ................................................................................................ 233 I. THE FIRST STEP: THE ROLE OF UNIONS IN PASSING THE PDA ................... 234 II. UNION ADVOCACY: MAKING THE PDA REAL FOR WORKERS ................... 235 III. BEYOND THE PDA: THE FUTURE ROLE OF UNIONS IN SECURING THE RIGHTS OF W OMEN W ORKERS ............................................................. 241 C ON CLU SION ................................................................................................... 244 INTRODUCTION In this Article, I describe an important story behind the passage and implementation of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)I--one that has continuing implications for creating a society that delivers for poor and working families and rebuilds the middle class. It is the story of how the empowerment of working women and collective action were crucial to improving workplace culture and practices for pregnant workers thirty years ago, and why those same factors are necessary today if we are to dramatically t Judith A. Scott is currently General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union and a member of the law firm of James & Hoffman, P.C., Washington, D.C. -
How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights
How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights ICED OUT: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights ICED OUT | How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights by Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project; Ana Avendaño, AFL-CIO; Julie Martínez Ortega, American Rights at Work Education Fund Photo Credits: Photos featured in this report were generously supplied by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice. © October 2009. All Rights Reserved. Acknowledgements: Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO; Erin Johansson, American Rights at Work Education Fund; Michael L. Snider, Attorney at Law; Jenny Yang, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll; Brooke Anderson, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy; Brooke Greco, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; Brady Bratcher, Iron Workers Union Local 75; Hillary Ronen, La Raza Centro Legal; Renee Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal; Jennifer Rosenbaum, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice; Julie Samples, Oregon Law Center ; Jacqueline Ramirez, Service Employees International Union Local 87; Siovhan Sheridan-Ayala, Sheridan Ayala Law Office; Mary Bauer, Kristin Graunke, Monica Ramirez and Andrew Turner, Southern Poverty Law Center; Vanessa Spinazola, The Pro Bono Project; Gening Liao, formerly of United Food and Commercial Workers; Randy Rigsby, United Steelworkers District 9; Jim Knoepp, Virginia Justice Center. 2 ICED OUT: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ......................................................................... 5 II. Immigration and Labor Law in Context ................................................ 7 III. Federal Policies Fail to Ensure Appropriate Balance Between Immigration and Labor Law Enforcement ................................... 13 IV. Case Studies: Immigration Enforcement Trumps Labor Rights .........................15 V. The Need to Identify and Assist Workers Who Are Victims of Labor Trafficking Rather than Focusing on Their Deportation ................30 VI. -
Report Title Election Report for Cases Closed Region(S) (Report Defaults
Report Title Election Report for Cases Closed Region(s) Election Held Date Closed Date (Report Defaults) Between (Report Defaults) and (Report Defaults) Between 10/1/2016 and 9/30/2017 12:00:00 AM Case Type Case Name Labor Org 1 Name State City (Report Defaults) (All Choices) (All Choices) (Report Defaults) (Report Defaults) Election Report for Cases Closed NLRB Elections - Summary Time run: 10/16/2017 8:16:17 AM Case Type No. of Elections Percent Won by Union Total Employees Eligible to Vote Total Valid Votes for Total Valid Votes Against Total Elections 1391 65.0% 92,653 43,607 31,642 RC 1193 71.0% 79,750 37,631 26,806 RD 172 32.0% 12,319 5,757 4,573 RM 26 30.0% 584 219 263 NLRB Elections with 1 Labor Organization Time run: 10/16/2017 8:16:17 AM Region Case Number Case Name Case City State Election Number Valid Votes Labor Org 1 Name Stipulated Certification of Certification Case Closed Type Held Date of Votes for / Consent Representative of Results Closed Reason Eligible Against Labor / Directed Date (Win) Date (Loss) Date Voters Org 1 01, 34 01-RC-181492 GREEN LINE GROUP INC. RC DEDHAM 9/30/2016 211 57 93 INTERNATIONAL Directed WON 12/21/2016 Certific. of BROTHERHOOD OF Representative MA ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 1228, AFL-CIO 01, 34 01-RC-182252 RENZENBERGER, INC. RC WORCHESTER 9/12/2016 26 2 7 UNITED STEEL, PAPER AND Stipulated WON 10/6/2016 Certific. of FORESTRY, RUBBER, Representative MA MANUFACTURING, ENERGY, ALLIED INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE WORKE 01, 34 01-RC-182433 J's Associates, LLC RC Springfield 9/8/2016 12 2 8 Area Trades Council of New Stipulated WON 10/3/2016 Certific. -
Rushing Union Elections: Protecting the Interests of Big Labor at the Expense of Workers’ Free Choice
RUSHING UNION ELECTIONS: PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF BIG LABOR AT THE EXPENSE OF WORKERS’ FREE CHOICE HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 7, 2011 Serial No. 112–31 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and the Workforce ( Available via the World Wide Web: www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/committee.action?chamber=house&committee=education or Committee address: http://edworkforce.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 67–240 PDF WASHINGTON : 2011 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE JOHN KLINE, Minnesota, Chairman Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin George Miller, California, Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon, California Senior Democratic Member Judy Biggert, Illinois Dale E. Kildee, Michigan Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania Donald M. Payne, New Jersey Joe Wilson, South Carolina Robert E. Andrews, New Jersey Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Robert C. ‘‘Bobby’’ Scott, Virginia Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Lynn C. Woolsey, California Duncan Hunter, California Rube´n Hinojosa, Texas David P. Roe, Tennessee Carolyn McCarthy, New York Glenn Thompson, Pennsylvania John F. Tierney, Massachusetts Tim Walberg, Michigan Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee David Wu, Oregon Richard L. Hanna, New York Rush D. Holt, New Jersey Todd Rokita, Indiana Susan A. Davis, California Larry Bucshon, Indiana Rau´ l M. Grijalva, Arizona Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Timothy H. -
How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers' Rights
How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights ICED OUT: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights ICED OUT | How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights by Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project; Ana Avendaño, AFL-CIO; Julie Martínez Ortega, American Rights at Work Education Fund Photo Credits: Photos featured in this report were generously supplied by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice. © October 2009. All Rights Reserved. Acknowledgements: Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO; Erin Johansson, American Rights at Work Education Fund; Michael L. Snider, Attorney at Law; Jenny Yang, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll; Brooke Anderson, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy; Brooke Greco, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; Brady Bratcher, Iron Workers Union Local 75; Hillary Ronen, La Raza Centro Legal; Renee Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal; Jennifer Rosenbaum, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice; Julie Samples, Oregon Law Center ; Jacqueline Ramirez, Service Employees International Union Local 87; Siovhan Sheridan-Ayala, Sheridan Ayala Law Office; Mary Bauer, Kristin Graunke, Monica Ramirez and Andrew Turner, Southern Poverty Law Center; Vanessa Spinazola, The Pro Bono Project; Gening Liao, formerly of United Food and Commercial Workers; Randy Rigsby, United Steelworkers District 9; Jim Knoepp, Virginia Justice Center. 2 ICED OUT: How Immigration Enforcement Has Interfered with Workers’ Rights TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .. ........................ 5 II. Immigration and Labor Law in Context . 7 III. Federal Policies Fail to Ensure Appropriate Balance Between Immigration and Labor Law Enforcement . 13 IV. Case Studies: Immigration Enforcement Trumps Labor Rights . 15 V. The Need to Identify and Assist Workers Who Are Victims of Labor Trafficking Rather than Focusing on Their Deportation . -
Power Building in California
Draft for Discussion Only – Please Do Not Circulate Building Labor’s Power in California: Raising Standards and Expanding Capacity Among Central Labor Councils, The State Labor Federation, and Union Affiliates By Jeff Grabelsky• November 17, 2008 Submitted to: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society Building Labor’s Power in California / Working USA – 11/17/08 Draft 1 Draft for Discussion Only – Please Do Not Circulate Building Labor’s Power in California: Raising Standards and Expanding Capacity Among Central Labor Councils, the State Labor Federation, and Union Affiliates Introduction and Overview For several years, the California Labor Federation has been engaged in a strategic planning process that began with a critical evaluation of a political setback in 2004 – losing an important statewide ballot initiative – and soon evolved into a systematic effort to elevate the performance of all the labor movement’s constituent parts. Spearheaded by a statewide Strategic Planning Committee, union leaders throughout the state have struggled to overcome organizational weaknesses, to develop a common and coherent program, to articulate standards and benchmarks to guide and track progress, to establish systems of accountability uncommon in the contemporary labor movement, and to build unity of purpose and action among diverse affiliates. Despite the many challenges inherent in this enterprise, California unionists have made significant progress and members of the Strategic Planning Committee remain positive, even passionate, about their mission. “To be quite honest, I was reluctant to participate in the committee,” admits IBEW Vice President Mike Mowrey. “But this experience has given me a new perspective. I started to see the potency and potential when unions really get together.”1 This article tells the story of these union leaders and their ongoing efforts to build labor’s power across the state of California. -
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LOWERING THE BAR OR SETTING THE STANDARD? DEUTSCHE TELEKOM’S U.S. LABOR PRACTICES www.americanrightsatwork.org Lowering the Bar or Setting the Standard? Deutsche Telekom’s U.S. Labor Practices By John Logan, Ph.D., Director of Labor Studies, San Francisco State University © December 2009 American Rights at Work Education Fund All photos courtesy Communications Workers of America LOWERING THE BAR OR SETTING THE STANDARD? DEUTSCHE TELEKOM’S U.S. LABOR PRACTICES By John Logan, Ph.D. Director of Labor Studies, San Francisco State University 2 Preface 11 T-Mobile’s Intensive Union Avoidance Campaign 3 Introduction: Deutsche Telekom’s Corporate 16 The NLRB Exposes T-Mobile USA’s Anti-Union Double Standard Inspires a New Global Intimidation Partnership for Workers 19 Why Workers Want and Need a Voice 5 T-Mobile USA and the American System of Labor Relations 27 Conclusion 8 Conflict Versus Cooperation: Deutsche Telekom in the United States PREFACE During my years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives, I saw the remarkable drive and promise of American businesses and workers. Along with my House colleagues, I championed the view that a level playing field is fundamental in crafting public policy solutions that both advance the interests of America’s workers and help our business sector responsibly engage in the global economy. The important research documented in this report highlights some of the key questions we face as a nation in a competitive 21st century economy. Do we reward those who play by the rules, or those who skirt the rules for their own gain? Do we encourage partnerships that bring workers’ voices to the table and protect their rights, or allow companies to violate the letter and the spirit of our labor laws in pursuit of short-term gain? In 2000, my colleagues on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protec- tion heard testimony in support of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom’s pro- posed acquisition of VoiceStream Communications. -
Mayor Gillmor July 2021 Date Time Subject Attendees 7/1
MAYOR GILLMOR AUGUST 2021 DATE TIME SUBJECT ATTENDEES Councilmember Kathy Watanabe; Ruben Torres, Fire Chief, City of Santa 8/1/2021 8:00 AM Bay 2 Brooklyn Launch Clara; Darrell Sales, Retired Firefighter and Event Lead 8/2/2021 5:00 PM US-Bangladesh Tech Investment Summit Councilmember Kathy Watanabe; Public Event Meeting regarding 1200 Memorex; Historical and 8/3/2021 1:00 PM Landmarks Commission Gary Filizetti, President, Devcon Construction 8/3/2021 5:00 PM National Night Out Public Event Glenn Hendricks, Chair, VTA Board of Directors (BOD), Carmen Montano, Phone Meeting regarding Valley Transportation Authority Director, VTA BOD; Manolo Gonzalez-Estay, Government Affairs Policy 8/4/2021 2:00 PM (VTA) Governance Matters Analyst, VTA JW House Grand Opening of New Family Suite at the 8/4/2021 4:00 PM Alderwood Community Room Public Event 8/5/2021 5:30 PM Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors Meeting Public Meeting Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, District 8/6/2021 11:00 AM Meeting regarding Local City/County Matters 4 Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies at Abraham Agnew Elementary 8/7/2021 10:30 AM School and Dolores Huerta Middle School Public Event Geoff Brown, President, USA Properties Fund; Steve Gall, Executive Vice President, USA Properties Fund; Tippy Lambert, Vice President, USA Properties Fund; Eric Morley, Principal, The Morley Bros.; Cynthia James, 8/9/2021 1:00 PM Meeting regarding 190 N. Winchester Boulevard Principal, Noble James, LLC 8/9/2021 2:00 PM Introductory Meeting Pastor Chris -
ORGANIZING PROSPERITY Union Effects on Job Quality, Community Betterment, and Industry Standards
ORGANIZING PROSPERITY Union Effects on Job Quality, Community Betterment, and Industry Standards MATT VIDAL with DAVID KUSNET Economic Policy Institute and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Copyright © 2009 Economic Policy Institute 1333 H Street, NW Suite 300, East Tower Washington, DC 20005-4707 www.epi.org ISBN: 1-932066-37-3 Table of Contents Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................... II Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................1 Introduction: Unions and the American dream .......................................................................7 CHAPTER 1 Hospitality Workers: In the winners’ circle in Las Vegas ................................9 CHAPTER 2 Nursing: Improving patient care and RN’s jobs ............................................ 15 CHAPTER 3 The Grocery Industry: Islands of high wages in the retail sales sector ........................................................................... 21 CHAPTER 4 Meatpacking: The human costs of deunionization ..................................... 27 CHAPTER 5 AT&T: High tech, high skills, and high wages ................................................ 31 CHAPTER 6 Janitorial Services: Up from poverty ................................................................. 33 CHAPTER 7 Trucking: Deregulation and deunionization drive down job quality ......................................................................................... -
Undermining the Right to Organize: Employer Behavior During Union Representation Campaigns
UNDERMINING THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE: EMPLOYER BEHAVIOR DURING UNION REPRESENTATION CAMPAIGNS December 2005 Chirag Mehta Nik Theodore Center for Urban Economic Development University of Illinois at Chicago A Report for American Rights at Work ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Kate Bronfenbrenner, Fred Feinstein, Kimberly Freeman, Julie Martínez Ortega, and Mary Beth Maxwell for their comments on earlier drafts of this report. We would also like to thank Kate Bronfenbrenner for reviewing the design of the research methodology used for this study. In addition, we thank Amanda Becker, Sarah Beth Coffey, and Marc Doussard for their research assistance. The authors also gratefully acknowledge all of the union representatives and workers who dedicated countless hours to provide accurate and thorough information that made this investigation possible. Finally, we acknowledge American Rights at Work and the Rockefeller Foundation for their financial assistance, without which this study could not have been completed. Additional copies of this report can be downloaded online from the Center for Urban Economic Development website at www.uic.edu/cuppa/uicued. Please direct questions or requests for further information to: Nik Theodore Director Center for Urban Economic Development University of Illinois at Chicago 400 S. Peoria St. (MC 345) Chicago, IL 60607 [email protected] 312-996-6336 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Forward ...............................................................................................................................................................4 -
Who Supports a Paid Sick Days Standard?
Everyone Gets Sick. Not Everyone Has Time To Get Better. A Brieng Book On Establishing A Paid Sick Days Standard November 2010 In October, I got very sick with diverticulitis. My doctor put me on bed rest for two weeks. While I was out, my boss hounded me to come back, but I was way too sick. I told him I would be back as soon as I could. I was not receiving sick pay at all. When I did go back to work early, he fired me and told me he needed someone he could count on. I worked for this man for two years. I was shocked. Sometimes things happen and you get sick. How are you to foresee these things? — Heather, Cedar Crest, New Mexico 2 Everyone Gets Sick. Not Everyone Has Time To Get Better. Nearly two in five private sector workers—about forty million people—don’t have a single paid sick day to recover from common, short-term illnesses. Millions more lack paid sick days to care for a sick child. Workers without paid sick days face an impossible choice when illness strikes. Either they go to work sick (or send a sick child to school or daycare)—or they stay home, lose pay, and risk job loss or workplace discipline. Particularly in this economy, many workers simply can’t afford to jeopardize the economic security of their families by staying home. When workers lack access to paid sick days, contagious illnesses spread through our workplaces and schools. Workers without paid sick days are more likely to go to work sick with an illness like the flu and are more likely to send a sick child to school than workers who have paid sick days. -
AFL-CIO Legislative Guide
AFL-CIO Legislative Guide Freedom to112th Form Congress Unions • Health(2011–2012) Care • Economic Recovery • Retirement Security • Education • Fair Elections • Workers’ Rights • Job Safety • Civil Rights • Freedom to Form Unions • Health Care • Economic Recovery • Retirement Security • Education • Fair Elections • Workers’ Rights • Job Safety • Civil Rights • Freedom to Form Unions • Health Care • Economic Recovery • Retirement Security • Education • Fair Elections • Workers’ Rights • Job Safety • Civil Rights • Freedom to Form Unions • Health Care • Economic Recovery • Retirement Security • Education • Fair Elections • Workers’ Rights • Job Safety • Civil Rights • Freedom to Form Unions • Health Care • Economic Recovery • Retirement Security • Education • Fair Elections • Workers’ Rights • Job Safety • Civil Rights • Contents 1. AFL-CIO About the AFL-CIO 1.1 2. THE ECONOMY The Economic Crisis: How Did We Get Here? 2.1 Financial Re-regulation 2.5 Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing 2.9 Clean Energy Jobs 2.13 Climate Change, Energy and Environment 2.17 Federal Investment in U.S. Transportation System and Infrastructure 2.21 Corporate Bankruptcy Reform 2.25 Mortgage and Foreclosure Relief 2.29 Unemployment Insurance 2.31 Worker Training and Skills Development 2.33 State Budgets and Public Employees’ Pensions 2.37 State Fiscal Relief 2.41 3. FREEDOM TO FORM A UNION The Employee Free Choice Act 3.1 The ‘Secret Ballot’ 3.3 The Union Advantage 3.7 The Union Advantage for Women, Latinos and African Americans 3.9 4. HEALTH CARE The Affordable Care Act 4.1 Building on the Affordable Care Act 4.5 Health Care Cost Containment vs. Cost Shifting: Proposals to Reduce the Federal Deficit 4.9 Health Care Workforce 4.13 5.