ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
AFGE: American Federation of Government Employees
AFSCME: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
General Labor News
IBT: International Brotherhood of Teamsters
SEIU: Service Employees International Union
UAW: United Auto Workers
UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers
UNITE HERE
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACORN worker enters guilty plea
(06/06/2007) - Kansas City Star - (Tony Rizzo)
[Kansas City, MO]
It was the focus of a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday. But on Wednesday, when the last of four people charged in a voter
registration fraud case pleaded guilty, few watched in the Kansas City courtroom.
AFGE: American Federation of Government Employees
Ex-union chief admits stealing 184G in funds
(06/13/2007) - Philadelphia Daily News - (MICHAEL HINKELMAN)
[Philadelphia, PA]
The former president of a union local that represents more than 300 workers at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in
Philadelphia pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than $184,000 in union money over a five-year period.
AFSCME: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
UC, Union Compromise on Custodial Salaries
(05/31/2007) - The Guardian - (Matthew McArdle)
[San Diego, CA]
Following a tense year of demonstrations and negotiations, union representatives reached a deal with UC officials this month
that increases wages for approximately 3,000 custodial workers across the 10-campus system. The agreement between the university and the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 provides custodial employees at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz
with a $1.75 hourly wage increase and raises the hourly salaries of custodians at other campuses by 50 cents. It also ends UC Irvine's outsourcing
practices, dictating that all groundskeepers subcontracted from outside businesses be classified as employees of the UC system effective July
1.
Child-care providers given right to unionize
(06/12/2007) - Statesman Journal - (Steve Law)
[Salem, OR]
Child-care providers who collect payments from the state won the permanent right to unionize.
The House voted 52-7 on Monday to enact Senate Bill 788-A, which grants collective-bargaining rights to child-care providers.
General Labor News
Strike reflects divide in labor movement
(06/09/2007) - The Oregonian - (Brent Hunsberger)
[Portland, OR]
Labor experts nationwide say an ongoing drywallers strike in Oregon and southwest Washington looms as the sharpest
example yet of this decade's divisions within the U.S. labor movement spilling out onto a picket line. This week's quarrels -- with union members defying
tradition and crossing their brethren's pickets -- could spell trouble for organized labor, particularly in construction, as it tries to reverse its declining
fortunes.
IBT: International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Some FedEx drivers in Connecticut vote for unionizing
(06/04/2007) - Reuters - (Nick Carey)
[Windsor, CT]
Some workers at a unit of FedEx Corp. (FDX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in Windsor, Connecticut, have voted in favor of a
proposal to be represented by the Teamsters, the union said on Monday. Of the 23 drivers for FedEx Home Delivery at FedEx's Hartford terminal who voted
May 11, 12 voted in favor of the proposal and nine against.
SEIU: Service Employees International Union
SEIU's Andy Stern: Going Global
(06/05/2007) - U.S. News and World Report - (Renuka Rayasam)
[Washington, D.C.]
These days Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, pays a lot more attention to the business
pages of the newspaper. Between American companies setting up shop on foreign soil and international companies plopping down in the United States, his
workers are increasingly affected by the pressures of globalization. In addition, private-equity groups are buying up some of the union's biggest
employers.
City, union labor clash boils over
(06/07/2007) - Beaverton Valley Times - (Christina Lent)
[Beaverton, OR]
The clock is ticking on 220 city workers’ contract with Beaverton, which is set to expire at the end of June. After five months at
the bargaining table, negotiations between the Service Employees International Union Local 503 and the city reached an impasse, landing representatives
of both parties in mediation Tuesday.
SEIU Janitors Said to “Feel Betrayed"
(06/11/2007) - The Center for Union Facts - (Froma Harrop)
[Houston, TX]
The Service Employees International Union Local 5 organizing efforts fall Short and Janitors Feel Betrayed – According to a
recent article written by nationally syndicated columnist Froma Harrop SEIU represented janitors are making less under the leadership of the SEIU than
they were making in the ‘70s.
Strike Called Off; Caregivers, Hospital Agree to Cooling-Off Period (RELEASE)
(06/12/2007) - Yahoo! Finance - (SEIU United Healthcare Workers)
[Burbank, CA]
- Caregivers at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center have called off their strike after agreeing to a 30-day cooling-off period
brokered by Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon between the workers and hospital administrators. Representatives of SEIU United Healthcare
Workers-West, SEIU 121RN and the Los Angeles Federation of Labor came together with hospital management at a meeting on Sunday, which Alarcn had
organized in hopes of averting the work stoppage.
UAW: United Auto Workers
GM, Ford, Chrysler Discuss Joint Health-Care Fund, People Say
(06/09/2007) - Bloomberg - (Jeff Green and Jeff Bennett)
[Detroit, MI]
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler may create an independent health-insurance fund to
trim their combined $114 billion in future retiree health-care obligations, five people with direct knowledge of the talks said.
Bally's Atlantic City filing requests NLRB to void union-election vote to void union vote
(06/13/2007) - Press of Atlantic City - (Maya Rao)
[Atlantic City, NJ]
Bally's Atlantic City has asked the National Labor Relations Board to set aside results of a recent union election in which
dealers voted 628-255 for representation, alleging that the United Auto Workers and the federal agency itself interfered with the process.
Ex-union staffers paid share of UAW hall's sale
(06/13/2007) - The News-Sentinel - (Associated Press)
[Anderson, IN]
Ten former employees of a United Auto Workers local have split up $200,000 from the sale of the union hall.
UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers
Grocery workers seek offer by June 21
(06/09/2007) - Los Angeles Times - (Jerry Hirsch)
[Los Angeles, CA]
Southern California's grocery workers union demanded Friday that the big supermarket chains present a comprehensive
proposal by noon June 21 for the 65,000 workers who are overdue for a new contract. Union officials said they set the deadline out of concern that talks
"could drag on indefinitely." The employees' contract was set to expire March 5 but has been extended twice as the two sides negotiate raises and
healthcare benefits.
UNITE HERE
Tenn. firm balks at pact local labor union wants
(05/31/2007) - San Diego Union-Tribune - (Tanya Mannes)
[Chula Vista, CA]
After spending nearly a year in negotiations with Gaylord Entertainment, a local union says it is frustrated that the company
won't sign a labor agreement for its $1 billion-plus Chula Vista construction project.
Gaming impasse beginning to thaw; Compacts won't have labor-organizing tool
(06/08/2007) - San Diego Union-Tribune - (James P. Sweeney)
[Sacramento, CA]
After months of strategic circling, Assembly Democrats are reaching out to some of the state's most powerful Indian tribes,
seeking a compromise that could seal multibillion-dollar gambling deals that have been stalled since August.
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