Last December, about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions began industrial action in a row over pay and cost-cutting.
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Walker's message -- that state workers unions had too much power and were preventing necessary budget cuts -- resonated with voters, Gergen said.
Negotiations followed industrial action by about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions earlier this month in a row over pay and cost-cutting at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing firm.
But in recent years -- from "rubber rooms" for teachers who can't be fired in New York City to the prison workers unions in California that helped to drive prison spending to nearly the same level as all higher education in the state -- resentments have been stirring against the power and alleged abuses of public sector unions.
The factories reopened after three-way talks between government ministers, manufacturers and workers' unions, and the government promised to give ration cards to workers to buy commodities at subsidized rates.
The confirmation of the closure came after a 90-day consultation process with workers and unions.
When inflation is taken into account, the freeze will add up to a pay cut for council workers, unions say.
While this is certainly bad for workers and unions, I have to wonder just how truly bad is it for people.
On July 15th, 120, 000 members of bank-workers' unions plan to stage a national strike to protest against their industry's forced shrinkage.
Mr Smith denied claims that relations with the workers and unions had deteriorated when he took over running the plant in 2000.
The percentage of private-sector workers in unions has dropped from 24% in 1973 to barely 7% today and in 2010, for the first time, the public sector accounted for an absolute majority of union members.
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Fewer workers in labor unions, to name one important example, means fewer workers talking to one another at the union hall.
Mr Howard is now painting Mr Rudd as a prisoner of the trade unions, Labor's traditional power base, in an era when only one-fifth of Australian workers belong to unions, and even fewer in the private sector.
Now greedy CEOs want to prevent workers from joining unions to level the playing field.
As private workers represented by unions plummet below seven percent, the NLRB strong arms industry.
The government doesn't track how many undocumented workers belong to unions, and many get jobs by using false Social Security numbers.
But many undocumented workers avoid joining unions "because they are under constant threat of deportation, " said Ana Avendano, head of the AFL-CIO's immigration and community-action program.
Labor unions are throwing their political muscle behind lawmakers' efforts to overhaul immigration regulations, with the hope that organizing immigrant workers can swell unions' shrinking ranks.
And through the 1980s and the 1990s, I rooted for the company as it battled the United Auto Workers and the unions for control, and Komatsu of Japan for global leadership.
The question is whether or not we have a society that allows workers to form unions or whether we have a society that makes it very difficult for them to form unions.
Just as government should help reduce the impact of recession on unemployment through programs, workers and their unions should be prepared to take pay cuts and share out work in recession.
Because while an amnesty and a path to legalization could clear the way for millions of workers to join unions, there will just be a new wave of illegals right behind them, providing the same cheap labor.
The impact of both the Obama action and the Romney alternative on the auto workers, the unions, the shareholders, the debt holders, the tax payors, and the future viability of the auto companies and their ability to succeed in a competitive world need to be compared.
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It was one of the few times an oil sands project received such a designation, which also allows the company to reach a collective agreement with one union--in this case, the Christian Labour Association of Canada, whose members earn less and pay smaller dues than others--and apply it to workers from other unions.
This will also be the part of the bill most opposed by the AFL-CIO because unions don't want more workers who don't belong to unions.
The war veterans also hope to undercut the trade unions by promising workers they can get raises and better conditions by appealing to them rather than to their unions.
On Monday, the government agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners.
It has begun a 90-day consultation exercise with unions and workers on its future.
It will require unions and workers who have already made extraordinarily painful concessions to do more.
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