- Picket held at garments firm for payment of separation pay.
Separated workers of garments factory in San Juan, Metro Manila have been picketing the premises of the company to demand payment by the company of their separation pay amounting to about P9.5 million. The picket started two weeks ago, a ......
- Introducing Michael Woodard.
MNA has hired Michael Woodard as our 3/4 time Labor Relations Specialist for the Eastern Operations of MNA. Michael was most recently the Regional Human Resources Manager for BNSF Railroad out of Billings and prior human resource positions span nearly ......
- Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights.
Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights. By David Brody. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 166. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-07246-4; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-03004-4.) In Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights, ......
- Wal-Mart gets religion.
WAL-MART GETS RELIGION: In an apparent attempt to improve its image, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has hired a former nun to advise the company on issues of the environment, health care and labor relations, according to the Washington Post (July 18)....
- Introducing Bill Smith.
MNA has hired Bill Smith as our Labor Relations Specialist for the Western Operations of MNA. Bills background includes four years as the Vice President of the Joliet Illinois Police Department Patrolman's Union and three additional years on the Executive ......
- Disproportional representation.
Byline: ADRIAN E. CRISTOBAL AMBASSADOR Roy Seneres, former head of the National Labor Relations Commission, got a ribbing at last Wednesday's lunch from IT guru Manny Bulatao for the lower bail he posted - P12,000 - compared to Comelec's Lintang ......
- Labor law: employer must show a majority favor union decertification.
A group of nurses began a decertification campaign, that is, they circulated a petition they believed would result in the union no longer being officially recognized as the nurses' representative in the hospital, two years after the National Labor Relations ......
- StudentS strike.
New York City Graduate students at Columbia Universityand Yale University held a strike April 18-22. The Graduate Employees and Student Organization is calling for the right to form labor unions and to have those unions recognized by the universities. In ......
- Apply the rules, know your rights.
The Labor Relations issue this month looks at rules from the regulators and suggestions for employers during a government inspection. While we don't have any new information on immigration, AMI continues to monitor the situation in Washington and will update ......
- University Union Busting.
New York City Graduate students and their supporters gathered at New York University on August 31 to protest the university's announcement that it would no longer bargain With graduate student employees. In 2004, the National Labor Relations Board stated that ......
- More labor pains.
The National Labor Relations Board has notified Ballet West that the charge filed against the company by the American Guild of Musical Artists has been withdrawn ... The Washington Ballet has settled a discrimination suit brought by AGMA, the union ......
- New South-New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South.
Few historians of the postbellum rural south are unfamiliar with Harold Woodman's groundbreaking article on the laws of tenancy and sharecropping, which appeared in Agricultural History in 1979.(1) Woodman's new book constitutes an expansion and reconsideration of the compelling analysis ......
- More labor strife in D.C.
The newly unionized dancers of The Washington Ballet have already hit a rocky road with company management. In March, Nikkia Parish and Brian Corman, two company dancers who testified before the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of unionization for ......
- JBC nominates 9 candidates for 2 CA positions.
Byline: Rey G. Panaligan Eight judges of the regional trial court (RTC) and a labor relations commissioner were nominated yesterday by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for appointment to two vacant positions in the Court of Appeals (CA). Chief ......
- ANA statement on H.R. 1644/S. 969: The Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradeworkers (RESPECT) Act.
The American Nurses Association commends the action of U.S. lawmakers to introduce legislation that would reverse a decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to expand the definition of the term "supervisor." That decision, rendered in September 2006, effectively ......