Posts tagged Harry Truman
Port Strike Halts: Now What? Commentary
October 9, 2024 // Even a new contract agreement, if it does not fundamentally address American port uncompetitiveness, would prove to be only a six-year punt. Legislation has been introduced to move port workers from the main National Labor Relations Act governance structure that applies to most private-sector workers to the Railway Labor Act, which governs the railroad and airline industries. This change would give Congress and the administration more power to impose a negotiated settlement and prevent strikes, but the idea has been batted around for nearly a decade.
Opinion: Kamala Harris’s California quid pro quo for unions
July 28, 2024 // Prime Healthcare Services alleged that the union then told them that it could make the problem go away. “Dave Regan, the president of SEIU-UHW, repeatedly informed Prime… that Harris would approve Prime’s acquisition only if Prime allowed SEIU-UHW to unionize workers at Prime’s hospitals,” according to court documents. SEIU donated to Harris’s 2010 and 2014 campaigns for attorney general as well as her successful 2016 Senate bid. A district court dismissed the lawsuit. It didn’t dispute that there may have been an arrangement between Harris and the union. It instead said that Harris had the legal power to rig the system this way.
The UAW is already looking ahead to its next auto strike
November 8, 2023 // Fain has not shied away from rhetoric that critics accuse of being “radical” or “class warfare.” In one of the videos he recorded during the auto strike, the UAW president wore a t-shirt that read “Eat the Rich.” And he’s not shy about complaining about the “billionaire class” when making a call to action for members. Any criticism of May Day is not likely to scare him away from embracing it.
10 biggest labor strikes in U.S. history
September 4, 2023 //