LBR: The URA and Virgil's Route 11 Edition
May 11, 2007 12:59 PM
Let's start the labor blog roundup with this great post on the recollections of George Meyers, a CIO organizer, at Dave Tabler's blog. And West Virginia Blue has a nice post on how, in some cases, things haven’t necessarily changed all that much. My favorite part is the alleged use of neo-Pinkertons to incite the union's supporters to violence, while a lawyer with a video camera lurked in the parking lot.
But not all the labor news is bad. We’ve blogged about the efforts of administrative staff at Rutgers to build the Union of Rutgers Administrators before. This week cards were turned in to the state labor board. AFT's On Campus has a great behind the scenes look at the campaign.
The Steelworkers again make the labor blog roundup, this time for taking their battles from the streets into the boardrooms. And the UFCW and the Teamsters have taken action to get OSHA to investigate the number of workers in microwave popcorn plants suffering from a deadly lung disease.
This week's EFCA blogging is from Troubled Times, which picks up on on Peter Dreier and Kelly Candael's piece in Tom Paine. Also, check out Troubled Times on executive pay.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) is doing its annual food drive this weekend. I've found a post on it by Virgil, a letter carrier who uses his blog to communicate with people on his route. I love the Internet. This Labor Blog Roundup is for Virgil and the administrative staff at Rutgers. Remember to leave some nonperishable food for the postman tomorrow.
