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  • RAILWAY LABOR ACT HISTORY LESSON: Why Can't The Wash. Post Get Its Labor History Right?
    Paul Alan Levy, esq.  is an AUD Director and an attorney for Public Citizen. This article is reproduced with permission from Paul Levy's blog http://paulalanlevy.blogspot.com.
     
    In a story published in the Washington Post last Friday [July 21st], three paragraphs about a side issue contain a remarkable number of errors that regrettably are all biased in one direction. 
     

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  • New national union aims to unite nurses

    Delegates from three major unions of registered nurses, meeting in Phoenix on December 7, merged their forces into a new national organization, the National Nurses United. The three founding affiliates --- the California Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and the United American Nurses --- report a combined membership of 150,000. To thunderous applause from some 150 delegates, one of the three elected co-presidents proclaimed that this creation of the "largest union of direct care nurses is about a century overdue."

  • In Painters DC 7: Almost wins top job but barred for 5 years

    Steve Schreiner did not begin his career as a painter in 1994 with the intent of being a union democracy reformer. It just seems to be the way it turned out. But then, after organizing hundreds of new members into the local, he never expected to be fined $1,500 in 2009 and suspended for five years.

  • Reflections on the SEIU Convention in Puerto Rico

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    At the June convention of the Service Employees International Union, climaxing President Andy Stern's twelve years in office, a big majority of the 1,900 convention delegates endorsed his program and endowed him with increased power amounting to presidential authoritarianism couched in democratic verbiage.

  • Shorts: transit, communications, release time...

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    In Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181:

  • Healthcare leader raps Stern; quits SEIU board

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    The president of the 140,000 United Healthcare Workers in California resigned from the executive committee of the Service Employees International Union in February. Sal Rosselli, in announcing his move in a stinging letter to Andy Stern, SEIU international president, denounced "the undemocratic practices we in the UHW have experienced firsthand." Rosselli charged, too, that "An overly zealous focus on growth, growth at any cost, apparently has eclipsed SEIU's commitment to its members."

  • Focusing the AFL-CIO debate: Bureaucracy v. Democracy

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  • Three major nurses unions unite in AFL-CIO

    United American Nurses, the California Nurses Association, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association --- three big unions of registered nurses that had been independent and somewhat in competition ---- joined forces in February to form one new union that claims to represent 150,000 members. The new union, called the United American Nurses-National Nurses Organizing Committee, will be part of the labor movement as an AFL-CIO affiliate.

  • On the eve of the SEIU convention.

    For over a year, the line pursued by Andy Stern, SEIU president and supported with near unanimity by the union's top leadership, has come under attack by Sal Rosselli, president of the 140,000-member United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W). The dispute, openly or by implication, will dominate the union's quadrennial convention which begins in Puerto Rico on June 1.

  • Nurses now for sale, barter and trade

    By combining into a new 150,000-member national union affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the California Nurses Association, the United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association seemed to have taken a giant step toward creating the kind of united force so many nurse unionists are hoping for. Meanwhile, the move has triggered a swift and dizzying realignment among the many unions that aspire to represent registered nurses. Most notable and unexpected is the sudden love affair between top officials of the Service Employees and the California Nurses Association. From bitter competition over who shall represent nurses, they have shifted to an amicable agreement over dividing up the territory.

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