Labor Law
On 12/8/05, Dr. Tom Rogers and Jim Velos of The Rogers Group interviewed me on their Voice America Business channel program Business Dis-eases: Cure Them or Die. The direct link for the interview is here. The website URL for Voice America’s Business channel is business.voiceamerica.com. For 45 minutes, the duration of the interview, we examined [...]
My final post in this series addresses the demise of the labor movement in America. On July 25, during the first day of the AFL-CIO’s 50th anniversary convention and elections in Chicago, it was announced that the SEIU and Teamsters made good on their threat to leave the AFL-CIO and start their own federation. I [...]
In November 2004, the 1.8 million member SEIU, released its plan to reignite the U.S. labor movement and begin a global movement. The plan is called Unite to Win. The Unite to Win plan is a ten point plan to revamp the AFL-CIO into a leaner labor organizing force. The first point, and perhaps the [...]
In light of the attacks to its relevancy and in preparation for the July convention and elections, the AFL-CIO issued its own statement in April and June of 2005, the federation published “Winning for Working Families; Recommendations from the Officers of the AFL-CIO for Uniting and Strengthening the Union Movement” (available online at aflcio.org). Similar [...]
If you are an organization doing business in Illinois, and are involved in any public works projects, or plan to bid on any public works projects, are you aware that in a wide variety of circumstances, the state can mandate that you contract with and hire union employees? More specifically, in 2003, Governor Rod Blagojevich [...]
