Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues « Breaking Defense – Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.
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Big labor’s structural racism is bigger than the problem with police unions | Opinion
“Unions have used collective bargaining to protect their members from accountability for racist killing. And, in doing so, they may well have made such killing more likely and more frequent.”
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The AFL/CIO is showing solidarity with the police unions. When I was a National Strike Director I often wondered where was the police union’s solidarity to us. I questioned their solidarity because they were union and had a job to do. Their job included controlling the peace. Sometimes they went too far, kicking over burn barrels, tear gassing peaceful strikers, making arrests and using riot teams to beat on strikers. To be fair, most of the police were reasonable and just doing their job and controlling angry strikers can be challenging. the though that they did not support union brothers and sisters disturbed me at the time.. Police unions were always a different breed and the idea that they played by the same rules as other unions was ridiculous. I led a successful union organizing campaign years ago with the Daytona Beach, Florida police department and realized just how different they were. unions will always try to get the upper hand when dealing with police response times during chaotic strikes. Now strike security plans are more important than ever. Message me on LI or email me at rtorres@pslabor.com for more info.
Amazon to pay US$500 million in one-time bonuses to front-line workers
Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it would spend US$500 million on one-time bonuses to its front-line employees and partners working through th
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Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
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Why labor unions make people less racist | Salon.com
Union members have higher wages compared to other workers. Now, a new study finds they change the way you see the world, too
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The claim that organized labor has been a force for racial egalitarianism can only be called a myth. It is one of the many myths that pro-union historians have perpetuated. Organized labor’s struggle for the right to bargain collectively, unemployment insurance, and minimum wage laws was a central part of its liberal program. But in non-economic matters, in such areas as civil liberties for political dissidents, and equality of opportunity for racial minorities, the practices of many influential labor unions can hardly be described as liberal. Many unions have a long history of racial discrimination.
UAW stems membership decline as corruption legal fees soar
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Lawsuit says workers were denied pay for months, then deported for complaining about it | Michigan Radio
A new lawsuit alleges workers were forced to work for months without pay at a green house in Monroe County. They were temporary agriculture workers from
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Ex-UAW president repays union $55k for travel expenses
A former president of the United Auto Workers has reimbursed the union for $55,000 worth of inappropriate travel expenses, the union says.
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German union calls for Amazon workers to strike
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