Posts tagged 401(k)
Geico workers organizing in Amherst
September 12, 2022 // For years, employees said, those jobs were good jobs. Geico today pays a minimum of $16.84 per hour for entry-level employees and as much as $91.70 per hour for upper management, according to records reviewed by Investigative Post. The employees who spoke with Investigative Post said they make between $20 and $30 per hour, or between $40,000 and $60,000 per year. But the COVID-19 pandemic, they said, rocked Geico’s business, causing the company to make a number of adjustments in short succession that changed employees’ jobs. Because many Geico employees are still working from home, organizers have been knocking on doors and visiting their coworkers at home to ask them to sign a union petition.
New Seasons Employees Have Filed for Union Elections
June 2, 2022 // The separate announcements and filings were deliberate: Employees of the independent New Seasons Labor Union decided to represent themselves without an established union partner. “We decided that the best way for us to be heard was for us to represent ourselves,” a New Seasons Labor Union organizer told the Mercury.
Teachers at the Blue Man Group’s “Progressive” School Strike Over Union Busting
May 27, 2022 // The private Blue School in New York teaches labor history. Its teachers just walked off the job.
OP-ED | A Better Approach to the Silver Tsunami
March 18, 2022 // Too often, for unions, the customers are themselves rather than the public, which is why the state should be taking advantage of retirements by focusing on modernizing, reorganizing, retooling, and outsourcing as much as possible. The major advantage in choosing among hiring private employees/services is that change can be made quickly to accommodate the needs of customers. Not working well? Terminate the contract and find a better solution in the marketplace.
Union employees at Eaton-Cobham’s Davenport plant go on strike
February 22, 2022 // More than 400 union employees of Eaton-Cobham Mission Systems in Davenport went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday after those workers voted not to ratify the company's contract offer, said John Herrig, directing business representative for District 6 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Eaton-Cobham union workers go on strike
February 18, 2022 // Hundreds of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace (IAMA) Local 388 and 1199 at Eaton Corporation-Cobham Mission Systems in Davenport are on strike after rejecting a new contract.
A “Critical” Issue with Pensions
February 12, 2022 // Here's everything you need to know about union pension plans and their current funding status.