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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.
Legal Decisions: Holschen vs. IUPAT

In Holschen v. International Union of Painters, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals case decided this April, the Court affirmed the Federal District Court's decision to dismiss, on summary judgment or directed verdict, all of Holschen's LMRDA claims against the Union.

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Shorts: Kaiser vote, L.A. Operating Engineers, Respect Our Crafts, A Budget Workers Union?, Dolores Paskal, NY State Nurses
“Fear & intimidation carry the day for SEIU” - A Letter

I read the article in Union Democracy Review on the recent SEIU vs. NUHW election at Kaiser in California (Sept/Oct. 2010). First, I appreciate very much the long and consistent support you've given to rank-and-file workers and union democracy for decades, including your on-going coverage of the struggle within and outside SEIU. Your work has helped the movement for union democracy advance, and that is vitally important in building the kind of trade union movement that we need to deal with the problems facing working people.
Clyde Summers, 1919-2010

Clyde Summers, who died in October at 91, played a central role in shaping union democracy law.
Vindicating Clyde Summers, Unions and scholars petition NLRB: Make employers recognize non-majority unions

Back in 2007 seven major AFL-CIO unions, including the Steel Workers and Auto Workers, petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to adopt a regulation that would require employers to recognize and bargain with unions, only on behalf of their members, in cases where a majority of the workers had not voted for union recognition. The petition was endorsed by Change to Win in 2008 when it still represented six influential unions. In June this year, 46 law professors around the country submitted a 60-page amicus brief in support of the union petition.
Four state nurses associations quit AFL-CIO union

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In December, nurses associations in four states, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington, withdrew from the United American Nurses, the national AFL-CIO union of registered nurses.

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Labor’s “civil wars” ending inconclusively

The “civil war” that Steve Early mentions in his new book is not about the class war between labor and capital, nor any war between a conservative right and a radical left in unions. It is the war that split labor’s progressive left (however you define it), a conflict that was triggered by the swift celebrity rise of Andy Stern as the new labor leader, touted, for a time, as the champion of a newly invigorated and enlightened union movement.

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Hiring Hall Rights

The LMRDA provides very few rights related to the fair operation of hiring halls. The basis for the rights of hiring hall users is found in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), particularly Section (b)(1)(A), which requires unions to abide by what is called the duty of fair representation. There are two kinds of hiring halls: exclusive and non-exclusive. Under an exclusive hiring hall, employers agree to obtain all, or a fixed percentage, of workers from the union.
Sus derechos en el trabajo y en la unión: Cómo presentar un agravio y conseguir representación de la unión

Motivo de esta publicación El propósito de este folleto es ayudar a los trabajadores que tienen una unión a hacer el mayor uso posible de sus derechos en el trabajo. El folleto relaciona algunos derechos básicos que los trabajadores sindicalizados frecuentemente tienen en sus contratos y muestra cómo se pueden exigir esos derechos. Aunque existen muchas diferentes leyes y regulaciones que protegen sus derechos, lo más importante es siempre organizar a sus compañeros de trabajo y tomar acción. Organizarse como grupo es la mejor forma de luchar por sus derechos y ganar.

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