Hot from SEIU and that big building downtown:
On Tuesday, January 9th, the Pima County Board of Supervisors became the first county in Arizona to allow its workers the freedom to vote to form an authorized union.
“Now we want a vigorous debate among county workers about what kind of employee organization they want,” said Dave Mitchell, […]
It looks like the pressure is going to be on our legislators to gut the provisions of the just passed proposition 202 that raised our state’s minumum wage.
The crux of the argument is that the new minimum wage statute overrides a federal provision that allowed of sub-minimum wage for employers that hired the developmentally disabled. […]
I haven’t written about SEIU’s organizing efforts among Pima County workers in a while.
Back in late October, Attorney General Terry Goddard issued an opinion that county workers were entitled to a vote on “meet and confer” status. Goddard’s opinion all but overruled a self-interested opinion issued by Barbara LaWall’s office (many of her own dissatisfied […]
From Raúl Grijalva’s office:
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva will host a Holiday Open House and Toy Drive at his Tucson office, 810 East 22nd Street, on Wednesday, December 20th from 5:30pm - 7:00pm.
During the open house, there will also be a toy drive for the families of the International Association of Machinists Local 933, who remain […]
I stood on a picket line with members of the International Association of Machinists Local 933 yesterday. They got a great many signs of support from the cars driving by, even the from some of the salaried employees leaving the Raytheon plant.
The company itself has reported a 41% increase in earnings per share, but despite […]
Assistant Attorney General Paul Eckerstrom is being talked up as a candidate to run against Barbara Lawall for County Attorney. Eckerstrom had been talked about before, but the talk seems to be a bit more serious now.
Eckerstrom has worked both sides of the courtroom, as a public defender and as a prosecutor. He currently works […]
As most of you know, the SEIU and the Teamsters have disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO. This is going on while they are having their convention, which makes this very high profile. This could be followed soon by UNITE-HERE, and possibly the UFW and my abuelo’s old brothers, the Laborers International.
I have a great deal of […]
The Arizona Republican Party site is back up! So I can get back to posting about something real instead of being petty by complaining about the pettiness of other folks.
The always classy Matt Salmon issued a statement on Jim Pedersen’s resignation as Arizona Democratic Party chairman:
“This institutionalized disorganization within the Arizona Democrat Party is why […]
A co-worker of mine responded to my post about the strikes against ASARCO/Grupo México with a bit of a rant about how he doesn’t make as much as these miners do, and even threw the word “communist” around.
Joseph, Joseph…
Yes, you are right, these guys make more than we do. Then again, mining these days is […]
The Operating Engineers, United Steel Workers and Teamsters are simultaneously striking against ASARCO operations in Tucson, Sahuarita, Kearney and Amarillo, Texas. This is the first major Arizona copper strike in more than a decade.
Workers at Sahuarita have been working without a contract for a year. ASARCO, despite higher copper prices, are claiming that the workers […]
Michael Bryan, Grand Pooh-bah of the excellent Blog for Arizona, has added me to his blogroll. I’ve known Mike since 1992, when he made a run for State House on the West side (I bet he thinks no one remembers…). He later told me he wished he ran a better race so he could tell […]
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