by Justin | Feb 5, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, Organizing
“Prospects for major labor law reform under the Biden administration are directly tied to unions’ and union federations’ willingness to hold the administration’s feet to the fire,” one former union organizer told Strikewave early this year....
by Justin | Feb 3, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Education, Labor Notes
Your union contract isn’t expected to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. But it does matter if it’s well written. The goal is a contract that members can read. Member participation in enforcement starts with a contract which is reader-friendly. Don’t blindly include...
by Justin | Feb 2, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, President Joseph Biden
The first major impact of the Peter Sung Ohr’s short tenure as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has been felt. A few days after withdrawing his predecessor Peter Robb’s litigation targeting the legality of neutrality agreements, Ohr issued a...
by Justin | Jan 30, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, UAW Local 2322
Alongside a need for job protection, the key issue raised by the union in their bargaining sessions is a need for a “comprehensive health and safety policy.” Workers reported broken railings, mold in the shelter, broken air conditioning units, among other concerns and...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Labor Notes, Opinion
“Collective bargaining agreements give workers some control over their work lives. Still, it is kind of astonishing how little control most workers have over the place they spend so much time—and how little we demand actual democracy at work.I’m often asked in...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Labor History
Gallup has reported that two-thirds of people in the United States approve of labor unions, the highest rating in two decades. And yet, unions represent the smallest share of the workforce in one hundred years—fewer than before there was a legal right to form a union...
