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 6 Globe Unions 
 Cut Deal; Largest Remains 

Two more still need to settle differences or Boston paper will shutter

May 4, 09 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Under threat of closure from the New York Times Co., six of the Boston Globe's seven unions have hammered out tentative deals with management, agreeing to millions in concessions, reports the Globe. But the newspaper's largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, is taking a break from negotiations following what the... More »

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unions • negotiations • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • Teamsters • pressmen's union • Boston Newspaper Guild

Times Co. Gives Globe 
Weekend to OK $20M Cuts

But accounting error further infuriates staffers

May 2, 09 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Globe will live to print another edition, now that the New York Times Company has extended its deadline to midnight tomorrow, the Globe reports. Marathon negotiations continued after last night’s deadline, when the Times Co. granted the eleventh-hour reprieve for the paper’s unions to approve $20... More »

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Boston • unions • negotiations • New York Times Company • Boston Globe

Globe's Rank-and-File Will
Take Pay Cuts—if Execs Do

Management, unions sit down

Apr 5, 09 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Unionized Boston Globe employees say they’re willing to make sacrifices to save their foundering newspaper—but only if executives and managers do the same, the Globe reports. “If management is willing to lead us, to take pay cuts and concessions, I'm sure the union would be willing,”... More »

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unions • New York Times Company • Boston Globe • concession • sacrifice • newspaper industry • pay cut

(Newser) - As many as 120,000 marched through Dublin today, enraged over a government plan to repair the economy by freezing worker pay and taxing pensions, the Irish Times reports. Calling the strategy "economic treason" in a speech to the crowd, union leader David Begg blamed "a business... More »

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Europe • unions • protests • recession • Ireland • economic plans

I'll Fight for 'Hardworking Families': Solis

Union foes challenge Labor nominee, but confirmation expected

Jan 9, 09 2:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pick for labor secretary vowed today to “improve the opportunities for hardworking families,” CNN reports. “My vision for the Department of Labor is rooted in who I am,” said Rep. Hilda Solis, the daughter of two union members. The four-term congresswoman from Los... More »

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Barack Obama • unions • President Obama • Obama Cabinet • organized labor • Hilda Solis • wowOwow

Labor Faces a Tough Year
at Table as Economy Stalls

Worsening economic conditions are forcing unions to reopen contracts, weigh givebacks

Jan 5, 09 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Organized labor is facing one of its toughest negotiating years in decades as the swooning economy prompts employers to seek givebacks and contract reopenings, reports the Wall Street Journal. With several major contracts expiring—AT&T, United Airlines, and Goodyear, among others—2009 could be punishing for labor. More »

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unions • United Airlines • labor unions • AT&T • Teamsters • financial crisis

Obama: I Never Discussed My Seat With Blago

Prez-elect talks policy priorities, scandal in wide-ranging interview

Dec 10, 08 10:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The president-elect opined on a variety of issues with the Los Angeles Times yesterday, including how his name will be announced at inauguration (Barack Hussein Obama, as per tradition):
  • Priorities: He'll start with "a serious investment" in infrastructure for "a green-energy economy."
  • Centrist Cabinet:
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immigration • Islam • unions • religion • auto industry • free trade • Rod Blagojevich • economy • President Obama

Openly Gay Union Activist
on Shortlist for Labor Secretary

Granholm, Sebelius also rumored picks

Dec 3, 08 10:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A gay union leader is on the shortlist for Barack Obama's secretary of labor, the Wall Street Journal reports. Democratic officials have confirmed that Mary Beth Maxwell—who would become the first openly gay Cabinet member in American history if chosen—is being vetted for the position, along with Govs.... More »

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Barack Obama • unions • Department of Labor • Jennifer Granholm • Kathleen Sebelius • David Bonior • gays • Obama administration • gay women • President Obama • Obama Cabinet • Mary Beth Maxwell

ANALYSIS

New Congress' Key Fights Could Be Dem-on-Dem

Party split ideologically, geographically on major issues

Nov 25, 08 10:22 AM CST
(Newser) - The Democrats have amassed so much power in Congress their internal conflicts may matter more than their fights with the GOP. In Politico, Martin Kady II takes a look at some likely intra-party fault lines:
  • Californians against rust-belters on the environment: “The Midwestern Democrats—Sherrod Brown, Evan Bayh,
... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • environment • Henry Waxman • unions • health care reform • Evan Bayh • House Democrats • Sherrod Brown

Boeing
Machinists
End Strike

Union members ratify pact; work to resume
after 8 weeks

Nov 1, 08 11:07 PM CDT
(AP) - The Boeing strike is over. Machinists in three states overwhelmingly ratified a union contract to end an eight-week strike that cut the airplane maker's profits and stalled jetliner deliveries. The union says the contract protects more than 5,000 factory jobs, prevents the outsourcing of certain positions, and preserves health... More »

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Boeing • unions • strike • machinists union

Feds Push to Ease Workplace Toxin Regs

Labor Dept. seeks to loosen oversight; union decries 'midnight' move

Jul 23, 08 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Department of Labor is rushing to push through policy that would make it more difficult to regulate workers’ exposure to toxins, the Washington Post reports. The proposal was never publicly disclosed, as required by law, but rather surfaced on the website of the White House Office of Management and... More »

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work • unions • manufacturing • Department of Labor • regulation • workplace safety • toxins

 Mailman Wants to Wear a Kilt 

Carrier advocates for the right to wear a MUG

Jul 21, 08 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dean Peterson likes kilts. In fact, the 48-year-old Air Force vet and mail carrier owns 15 of them, and he's on a one-man crusade to persuade the USPS to allow carriers to wear kilts on the job, the Boston Globe reports. He’s contacted every postal union branch in the... More »

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uniforms • unions • mail • labor unions • clothing • postal • USPS • kilt • comfort • National Association of Letter Carriers

 Not So Easy to 
 Green a Dem 
 Convention 

Organizer can't find hats that are organic and union

Jun 25, 08 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - You can pledge to make your Dem convention “the greenest…in the history of the planet” (as Denver’s mayor recently did), you can hire a Director of Greening—but it’s still no small task to throw a sustainable presidential nominating conference. That's what the Journal discovered in... More »

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environment • Democratic National Convention • unions • green • greenhouse-gas emissions • compost

Auto Worker Powerhouse Doug Fraser
Dead at 91

Ex union boss helped save Chrysler from ruin

Feb 25, 08 2:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Former United Auto Workers president Doug Fraser, who played a vital role in saving Chrysler from bankruptcy, died yesterday at age 91. The cause of death was unknown, but Fraser had been suffering from emphysema, the Detroit Free Press reports. As UAW president during the ’70s and ’80s,... More »

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Chrysler • United Auto Workers • Detroit • unions • obituary • labor unions • auto industry • Ron Gettelfinger • Douglas Fraser • Wayne State University

Dems Take Aim at Big Business

Obama and Clinton turn up the heat heading into Wisconsin, Ohio primaries

Feb 16, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, heading into primaries in states struggling with joblessness and the mortgage crisis, are sharpening their attacks on big business, the Wall Street Journal reports. Both are lambasting oil companies, corporate tax cuts, and health insurers. Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary will be a test of which... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • unions • Ohio primary • Pennsylvania primary • corporate tax cuts • corporate wealth • health insurers • oil companies

Hollywood Directors Start Talks; Writers Watch

Insiders hope they'll make a deal the scribes can stomach

Jan 12, 08 9:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood directors start official contract talks with producers today, after several months of informal sessions, Variety reports. Insiders predict a speedy deal, as the Directors Guild of America doesn't usually start formal negotiations until most of the big issues are ironed out. Hopes are that a DGA agreement will provide... More »

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Hollywood • unions • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike • Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers • Screen Actors Guild • Directors Guild of America

Starbucks' Union-Busting Campaign Before Judge

Brewhaha over coffee bosses' plot to stop baristas from organizing

Jan 10, 08 3:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks bosses trying to stop baristas from union organizing did some internet sleuthing to discover who had graduated from a university labor program—and even had Halloween partygoers snooped on, the Wall Street Journal reports. Starbucks' own emails detailing "our attempts to thwart a potential union situation" by identifying... More »

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Starbucks • coffee • unions • labor • union busting

Reality Woes Add to Scribe Strike

Studios deny overtime, meal breaks to reality TV writers, guild says 

Nov 24, 07 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - With negotiations in the Hollywood writer's strike coming Monday, a new survey shows that writers for "unscripted" TV are denied overtime pay and meal breaks, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reality TV is a major sticking point in the strike, as studios insist that writers be classified as editors... More »

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television • reality TV • unions • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike

Rocky Road for Chrysler Deal

3 UAW locals vote
down offer that
would 'lower our standard of living'

Oct 20, 07 4:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Three UAW locals voted against the new Chrysler deal yesterday, stirring fears that the agreement may be scuttled. Two plants voted against it by 53%, and a third, in Missouri, by 66% among skilled trades and 79% among assembly line workers. They slammed a proposed 2-level pay structure and new... More »

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Chrysler • United Auto Workers • General Motors • Detroit • unions • Ford

Sarkozy Braces for Union Battle

Pension cuts could trigger crippling strikes in president's first test of leadership

Sep 18, 07 4:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy could face the first major obstacle of his four-month reign this week when he tries to slash the pensions of 500,000 workers who enjoy more generous retirement packages than other civil servants. Polls show Sarkozy's plan is supported by 65% of the public, but striking... More »

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pensions • Nicolas Sarkozy • Jacques Chirac • France • unions • retirement

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