labor unions

CNA and Retiring Head RoseAnn DeMoro Leave Labor in Critical Condition

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — “C’mon people, what are some more nurses values?”
I was nearly four months into my stint in the communications office at the California Nurses Association, or CNA, when I found myself in a half-lit, mildewed, second-floor conference room in the union’s downtown Oakland office, seated among a clutch of maybe seven or eight other communications staffers, all white with the exception of myself and an Asian woman.

Labor Unions Are Now Filing Grievances Against Goats

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the University of Michigan have had a well-established working relationship with each other for years, largely because the union holds a contract with the school barring any non-union members from certain jobs, including landscaping. That goodwill ended this summer when the school decided to use a new method of removing poisonous vegetation.

No Representation without Consent – Not Even from Unions

Should anyone be forced to accept representation from a private entity against his or her will? In the US, if a union gets at least 50 percent plus one of the workers in an enterprise to vote in favor of the union’s representation, then all workers must be represented by the union – even those who abstained and who voted against being represented by the union.

Hey New York Times, This Is Why Uber Is Awesome

The New York Times has issued a major blast against the gig economy, and it has all the features of this genre of writing: find anything in the sector that might be improved, or is improving, and treat it as something government should crush immediately, regardless of the results for people who are actually choosing in favor of this form of market participation. An editorial as bad as this calls for a good fisking.