Tensions Escalate in Washington Port Union Battle Over Jobs

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 20th at 12:00 PM  | 

To say that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a militant union would be something of an understatement. Following the deadly 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike (of which the ILWU still commemorates ‘Bloody Thursday‘), the longshoremen’s union (originally part of the International Longshoremen’s Association) has controlled the West Coast ports for nearly 80 years and its militancy continues to this day. In Washington state the ILWU | Read More »

When Union Boycotts Fail: A look at today’s pathetic union tactics

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 6th at 11:50 PM  | 

In early March, the United Food & Commercial Workers rejected a contract offer from Shaw’s  Supermarkets and 300 distribution center workers walked out on strike. Since that time, the strikers have been replaced, the UFCW has collected donations,  marched and are futilely trying to boycott Shaw’s.  Now, having exhausted its tactics aimed at putting pressure on Shaw’s, the UFCW has resorted to trespassing in order | Read More »

American Red Cross Hit by Multiple-Union Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 01:58 PM  | 

Although, due to its planned short duration, it appears to be a mere union pressure tactic to get the American Red Cross to cave at the bargaining table, multiple unions have hit the not-for-profit with a three-day strike in six states. The unions involved include AFSCME, the CWA, OPEIU, and, of course, the SEIU. Blood collections were suspended Wednesday as 60 union workers joined a | Read More »

Not Your Normal UFCW Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 16th at 09:59 PM  | 

With unions, they just go together like hand and glove:  Strikes and unions, that is. A unionized workforce negotiates with management.  Management gives the union workers a lousy offer and the union workers strike. It happens more often than most union bosses would care to admit. And they really would rather you not know about this. The United Food & Commercial Workers is a 1.3 million-member | Read More »

Philly nurses striking in order to trash-talk their hospital?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 6th at 05:29 PM  | 

How much pay are you willing to go without* in order to trash talk your employer? That issue seems to be front and center of the nearly week-long strike by 1,500 unionized health care professionals [emphasis added for obvious reasons] in Philadelphia. Striking nurses in Philadelphia say a proposed speech restriction and the loss of a college tuition benefit are at the heart of a | Read More »