Archive for the ‘Unions’ Category
NBA players are union; they are among the 99%!
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Basketball fans are impatient to have the contract negotiations end, to let the season begin. Professional players are in a union. As with all union contract negotiations, owners play hardball. They locked out the players, not vice versa. Don’t just blame the union for postponing your pleasure.
Tags: Dave Zirin, NBA, NBA Players Union
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The Ventura County (CA) Workplace Bullying Story
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The Ventura County Workplace Bullying Story
updated Oct. 27, 2010
Follow the story of a worker-driven push for change of a government workplace culture to drive out bullying. No ending yet. We support the unions whose workers deserve to be free from abusive conduct and retaliation. And we support the County administration that has the opportunity to turn a PR disaster into triumph and do the right thing.
Tags: grand jury, SEIU local 721, unions and bullying, Ventura County, workplace bullying
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WBI Podcast 20: Dignity, Deservedness & ‘Lucky’ jobs
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Podcast 20:
Dignity, Deservedness & ‘Lucky’ Jobs
Dignity at work is a human right, not a privilege that has to be earned. In these tough economic times, it is important to not let others tell you that it is an unnecessary luxury.
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Tags: deservedness, Dignity, Dignity at work, jobs, Podcasts
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Congress: Stop Bullying the Post Office
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
With sickening regularity since the crackpots rose to power in Congressional committees, hearings in “the People’s House” have wasted time pounding on government agencies that receive NO MONEY from taxpayers or Congress. The goal? To shame, humiliate, berate, to bully agencies targeted for scapegoating. The Postal Service has been targeted by former car thief (turned millionaire from a car alarm business, irony?) Rep. Issa for elimination.
The false claim is that the Post Office is broke. (And Social Security and Medicare did not cause the recession/depression; investment banker gamblers did.) Turns out that Geo. Bush in 2006 torpedoed the USPS with legislation requiring an unprecedented prepayment of anticipated pension funds to cover 75 years of operation!
Issa’s move is both union-busting and privatization of a cherished American tradition. Here’s the real story behind the headlines pronouncing (almost celebrating) the death of the USPS.
More news to come about this important story.
Tags: 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, APWU, Darryl Issa, USPS
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice, Unions | 1 Comment »
Workers’ History Lesson: Dick Meister
Monday, June 20th, 2011
May Day. A day to herald the coming of Spring with song and dance, a day for children with flowers in their hair to skip around be ribboned maypoles, a time to crown May Day queens.
But it also is a day for demonstrations heralding the causes of working people and their unions such as are being held on Sunday that were crucial in winning important rights for working people. The first May Day demonstrations, in 1886, won the most important of the rights ever won by working people the right demanded above all others by the labor activists of a century ago:
“Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!”
Tags: Dick Meister, labor history, May Day
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Target Stores anti-unionization video propaganda
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Just like WalMart, Target Stores, boasts of being union-free. In a remarkable employee orientation (brainwashing) video, the corporation tells new hires that they will “lose” their voice if a union comes between them and benevolent, open-door (sic), caring management. The final instruction in the video: “Refuse to sign – keep Target union-free.” Guess we know on whose back the corporate bullseye is stuck – union organizers and employees believing they deserve dignity at work.
Gawker.com (the source of the video) reports that the actors in the film are both union members.
Steve Greenhouse, New York Times labor writer, reported on the organizing efforts on May 23.
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Dick Meister: Meaning of May Day
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
May Day. A day to herald the coming of Spring with song and dance, a day for children with flowers in their hair to skip around beribboned maypoles, a time to crown May Day queens.
But it also is a day for demonstrations heralding the causes of working people and their unions such as are being held on Sunday that were crucial in winning important rights for working people.
Tags: 8 hour workday, Dick Meister, Haymarket, Labor Day, May Day, union history
Posted in Social Justice, Unions | 2 Comments »
Some forgotten history of American workers
Friday, March 25th, 2011
View the slide show of some historical moments in labor history not always included in the history books. How many today remember the abolition of the PATCO union? It’s been all downhill for American workers since then.
Tags: labor history
Posted in Social Justice, Unions | 4 Comments »
An at-will cold shoulder for bullied workers
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
We caught a column that Dr. Michelle Callahan, wrote for the Huffington Post: 10 tips for dealing with bullies at work. What really amazed us was the clear message in the comment list that bullied targets have all the power, thanks to the “miracle of the modern at-will workplace.” The writer pridefully stuck it to unions who she or he must believe would actually take away workers’ freedom to be willfully unemployed without health insurance. In the commenter’s world (where and for whom does this person work?) bullied targets have all the control.
Tags: Michelle Callahan
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Bullying is never about the money
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Bullied targets recognize lying. Lies about needing to save money are the governors’ (expect this to roll into other states near you, Wisconsin is just the beginning) rationale for eliminating the few remaining rights workers have. You non-union folks know that you have no rights to give up. Turns out that the newly elected Wisc governor inherited a surplus. There was no financial crisis in that state, says former co-chair of the state joint finance committee, state Rep. Marc Pocan.
In states where there are genuinely dire financial straits, the governors are blaming unions. Really? Why do we have such collective amnesia? How gullible is the American public? Remember the investors who ripped off the world and mortgage borrowers and allowed us saps to absorb the losses? And not one has gone to jail for it (read Matt Tiabi’s new article).
And so the pattern is repeated in every bullying scenario. Bullies cost the employer, corporate or government, tons of cash that the employer whines they cannot afford to spare. Yet, they keep the bully on payroll while the losses mount from undesirable turnover, absenteeism, presenteeism, workers’ comp, disability insurance, and a damaged reputation as the worst place to work. Bullies are too expensive to keep, but it’s about power and cozy relationships between executive sponsors and their favorite sons and daughters. It’s never about the money.
Tags: bullies, lies, lying, Scott Walker, Unions, Wisconsin
Posted in Social Justice, Unions | 6 Comments »
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