This fresh from the UFCW:
We are proud to report that a strike has been averted with Safeway, Fry’s and Smiths.
After 13 months of bargaining and a strike deadline just hours away, UFCW Local 99 and the grocery companies have agreed on a tentative new three-year contract.
In the coming weeks, you will have an [...]
From the movie Matewan:
A bit more lighthearted, the International Ladies Garment Union in 1981, and an Australian video based on the “What Have the Romans Done for Us?” bit from Life of Brian:
Many of you probably heard about Andrew Ross Sorkin on Morning Joe where he challenged people to “name a successful unionized company.”
James Hoffa had a great response to this, but Sorkin would have needed to look no further than the unionized crew in the studio he was mouthing off in to see evidence of a [...]
Major League Soccer announced yesterday that the new team in Philadelphia would be known as Philadelphia Union.
Here’s what I want to know: AFL-CIO or Change to Win? Will new players be allowed to simply sign up, or will business lobbyists demand that there be a secret ballot?
George McGovern will be doing a signing for his new book over at the Barnes and Noble on Broadway and Rosemont tonight at seven o’clock. The Pima County Democratic Party has been promoting the event, and that’s made some Democratic party allies in the labor movement angry.
McGovern has been very vocal in his opposition to [...]
Today is Dolores Huerta’s 79th birthday. We here at R-Cubed send our thanks for her leadership and most sincere wishes for her continued good health.
La Cervecera has recinded Janet Napolitano’s executive order that allowed for state employees a vote on whether to have a union. Her stated reasons for this are rather weak. This is from her press release:
Governor Jan Brewer today signed an executive order to reaffirm the State of Arizona’s longstanding prohibition against mandatory union activity as [...]
SEIU held a rally at the Maricopa County Court House to announce that they are filing a lawsuit alleging that the state violated its own rules with its recent round of layoffs. Press release after the jump.
Something that went unnoted in my mention yesterday of the memorial in opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. State employees have asked for a vote, by secret ballot, on whether or not to join a union. You’d they are so supportive of the secret ballot in labor elections (as their own bill says), our state’s Republicans [...]
I’ve got a few small items that I neglected to address last week. Now, I can say “After the jump…” like all the classy blogs do.
- Arizona Blog
- Baja Arizona Blog
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