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A Little Labor Knowledge Could Go a Long Way for HR as Unions Push Into Private Sector
… provides HR services to employers. “ Unions aren’t going away,” she says ..... think they need to know anything about unions . The important thing even for nonunion employers ..... proposed in 2009 to make it easier for unions to organize. The measure never passed but …
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Labor Unions Become Business Partners
… Serbs are reuniting Yugoslavia in peace. Unions and management are working together ..... working together for the common good. Unions and management haven't often tried to ..... have been some hard feelings. Now some unions and the employers that they represent …
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The Unions' Power To Sue Is Growing
… circuit courts that previously had found unions to have that right. So it got to the ..... interpreted the WARN law to find that in fact unions did have standing to bring WARN actions ..... written by Justice Souter, analogized the unions ' role as being similar to the EEOC and DOL …
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Union Membership in New York State Slips to New Low
… report last year by City University of New York researchers showed. As that gulf widens, it becomes harder for public-sector unions to hang on to their gains. Despite reaching a low point, New York's union membership rate last year was more than double …
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Massive Master Complaint Filed Against NFL Over Concussion-Related Injuries
The 86-page document, filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, seeks financial compensation, injunctive relief and medical monitoring for former NFL players who claim the league misled them about the dangers of concussions.
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Chicago Teachers Strike Could Offer a Lesson on Performance Evaluations
Performance evaluation “is a nationwide issue—and it's an issue that is not going away,” said Norm Solomon, a professor of management at Fairfield University in Connecticut. “I don't think anybody should be surprised that this issue is coming to the fore. The key thing to any evaluation system, ...
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American Airlines to Freeze Pension Plans in November
To be frozen on Nov. 1 are pension plans for flight attendants, ground crews and mechanics, as well as the pilots' A plan. The pilots' B plan, which is a defined contribution plan, will be terminated Nov. 30.
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The Midnight Shift Returns as Automakers Boost Output
By the start of 2013, 22 of the 83 assembly plants in North America will operate with three shifts of workers, and nearly half of all vehicles built here will come from a three-shift plant.
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Retired NFL Player Cannot File for Workers' Comp Benefits in California
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rules California workers' comp law doesn't apply to retired NFL player because he did not clearly show that he was injured in the state.
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Chicago School Strike Lifts One Local Firm
In the wake of the Chicago Teachers Union strike, Sittercity, a website that helps parents find babysitters and nannies, has seen membership jump 35 percent in the past 24 hours in the Chicago market.
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American Airlines Asks to End Retiree Health, Life Benefit Coverage
The airline and parent company AMR said they never promised to provide benefits for life and reserved their rights to modify the plans.
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Ford Seeks to Close $15-an-hour Canada Labor Gap With U.S.
Ford, which lists 7,400 employees at five plants in Canada on its website, pays $79 an hour for wages and benefits to its hourly workers in the country, said the official, who asked not to be identified because negotiations with the union are private. That labor rate is the highest Ford faces ...
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NFL to Freeze Referees' Pension Plan Under Labor Agreement
Retirement benefits will be provided through a defined contribution plan to new referees immediately and for all officials beginning in 2017.
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Health Care Unions Laboring to Unite
Imagine a time when health care unions were endlessly fractured, when labor leaders ..... federation; and three more large nurse unions have joined together to form what they ..... driving us to link arms with our sister unions ,” says Mary Kay Henry, an international …
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Hotel and Garment Unions Settle on Breakup
… on both sides said Monday, July 12. As part of the deal, which still needs to be approved by the executive boards of both unions , the garment workers (Workers United) will also fork over a hefty amount of cash to the hotel workers (Unite Here). The …
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Collaborating With Unions Can Help Control Health Care Costs
Employers and unions often go head to head on negotiating health ..... employers can work together with their unions to establish a health care plan, three ..... traditional way that companies engage unions on health care matters is through collective …
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N.Y. Unions Cage Inflatable Rat, Try Teamwork
… rat has long been a prop used by labor unions to call attention to companies using nonunion ..... labor. But a number of construction trade unions in western New York have agreed to put the ..... PR to dispel those perceptions.â The unions that agreed to the new approach make up …
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Unions' Inflatable Rat an Endangered Species
… tall as 30 feet--have been used by unions for years to call attention to companies ..... Foerster. â Particularly now as the unions step up their recruitment drives and ..... it may become an endangered species as unions avoid having their protests viewed as …
