The Rise of Corporate Democrats in California By Gary Cohn, April 15, 2014, Huffington Post Marin County is one of California’s most liberal regions and, with its iconic redwoods and stunning coastline, it is also a power center for environmental activism. And so, when a bill to give the state Coastal Commission authority to levy...
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San Francisco could have competing minimum wage hikes on November ballot By Chris Roberts, April 8, 2014, San Francisco Examiner Labor groups, led by San Francisco’s largest public employee union, took the first step Monday toward raising The City’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. But by filing paperwork to put the wage increase in...
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Why ‘Harris v. Quinn’ Has Labor Very, Very Nervous By Joel Rogers, April 14, 2014 Edition, The Nation Sometime soon, certainly by the late-June conclusion of its present term, the Supreme Court will tell us its decision in Harris v. Quinn, arguably the most important labor law case the Court has considered in decades. Harris...
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SEIU uses federal inspections to target Houston small business By Jillian Kay Melchior, March 25, 2014, National Review Union organizers are showing up at Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspections of an open-shop business that has been targeted by the country’s second-largest union. Professional Janitorial Service, the largest non-union janitorial company in Houston, and the...
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Gov. Brown takes swipes at GOP, praises labor unions By Phil Willon, March 17, 2014, Los Angeles Times Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown gave a rousing pro-worker speech to a ballroom filled with union representatives Monday night, thanking organized labor for helping pass his vote-approved tax hike in 2012 and worker’s compensation reform and vowing to...
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BART needs a strike ban, negotiations transparent Editorial, March 7, 2014, Oakland Tribune BART directors have rejected a flawed proposal to ban strikes for the transit system’s workers in exchange for binding arbitration — but for the wrong reason. The proposal, by Director Joel Keller of Brentwood, didn’t go far enough. His inclusion of binding...
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Now the Auto Union Wants to Muzzle Public Officials By Bob Corker, March 3, 2014, The Wall Street Journal Picture an election where an entity is given nearly unfettered access to voters for two years and then is allowed to call for a surprise vote with only a few days’ notice. Then imagine that the...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Another big union refuses to accept workers’ rejection By Bill Zwerger, February 25, 2014, American Thinker On Friday, after two days of voting, workers at...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. For Once, California GOP Out-Hustles Unions By Steven Greenhut, February 18, 2014, Human Events Some political analysts have warned California Republicans not to read too...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Political targeting of Walker supporters proves it can happen here By Rick Manning, February 11, 2014, 2014 It can’t happen here. Government targeting and intimidation...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. VW Plant’s Union Vote Could Be a Southern Labor Breakthrough By Justin Bachman February 04, 2014, Businessweek Workers at a Volkswagen AG (VOW:GR) auto plant...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Northwestern football players seek to join labor union By Teddy Greenstein and Chris Hine, January 28, 2014, Chicago Tribune Kain Colter called Tuesday a “historic...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Labor Wants Its Say at Davos By Katrin Bennholdjan, January 21, 2014, New York Times Philip Jennings, a union leader from working-class Wales, has been...
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Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. L.A. may hike minimum wage for hotel workers to highest in U.S. By James Rainey, January 14, 2014, Los Angeles Times Labor leaders hope a...
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