January 23, 2007 - 10:52 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Today, the Center for Union Facts notes the irony of three major union organizations in the “Change to Win” coalition being embroiled in labor disputes — with each other. The Teamsters-organized staff of Canada’s United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union went on strike to protest the UFCW’s proposed use of a two-tiered system in which new employees receive significantly less in wages and benefits than veteran employees.
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January 23, 2007 - 10:30 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, two Schreiber Foods employees from Green Bay, Wisconsin, persuaded a federal appellate court to order the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to rule in a long-delayed case the workers filed in 1989. Having refrained from formal union membership, the workers are challenging union officials’ use of their forced union dues for activities unrelated to collective bargaining, particularly union organizing costs.
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January 18, 2007 - 5:08 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
by Richard Berman
Arizona Daily Star
January 12, 2007
Faced with an American workforce unimpressed by what they’re selling, union leaders are growing desperate to prop up their membership rolls. Their latest gambit? Make it easier to intimidate employees into joining unions, opening the floodgates of mandatory dues money.
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January 1, 2007 - 3:42 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
This Christmas, we were being told to buy from Costco, not Wal-Mart; to ship our presents via UPS, not FedEx; to avoid the Lexus and buy a Ford; to drink Budweiser beer and Eight O’Clock Coffee, but only from Kroger or Farmer Jack.
Why should we do this — because of fair prices for good products? The best value? Service? Convenience? Not according to Teamsters union President James P. Hoffa.
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