by Justin | Dec 19, 2020 | Administration Caucus, Labor Notes, One Member One Vote, TDU, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAWD in the News
The UAW could join the Teamsters and several other unions which have direct rank-and-file votes for International officers. The Teamsters Union adopted that system in a 1989 settlement of a major racketeering case; the one-member-one-vote system was proposed by...
by Justin | Dec 8, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Labor Notes, NLRB, President Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden
Unions are hoping that President-elect Joe Biden quickly takes control of the National Labor Relations Board and launches a new era of federal labor policy. Over the past four years, a cabal of Trump appointees, determined to rewrite U.S. labor law, has run the NLRB...
by Justin | Dec 3, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Labor Notes
The final phase of bargaining can be intense. A strike authorization vote has been taken, or maybe a strike has begun. Members are fully mobilized and your corporate campaign is in high gear. Suddenly the employer is throwing new proposals onto the table. These are...
by Justin | Oct 17, 2020 | Labor Notes, Organizing
The problem is that even great tactics can’t overcome the social, political, and economic forces of capitalism, which combine to make organizing a gigantic challenge. In a free-market system, employers are under intense competitive pressure to resist workers’...
by Justin | Sep 10, 2020 | Education, Labor Notes, NLRB
Labor Notes is pleased to present the third in a series of webinars taught by veteran Boston labor lawyer Robert M. Schwartz and hosted by Labor Notes staffer Bianca Cunningham. Topics will be taken from his bestselling Labor Notes guides to stewards’ rights,...
by Justin | Aug 19, 2020 | Labor Notes
Last week the United Electrical Workers (UE) published a new pamphlet, Them and Us Unionism, which argues that the labor movement needs to return to the class-struggle unionism that animated the founding of the industrial unions in the 1930s.The 24-page...
