Good practices in labor-management cooperation in unionized establishments.
Byline: Dean JORGE V. SIBAL, UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations SOCIAL partnership in industrial relations (IR) is practiced through various mechanisms and approaches designed for workplace productivity and decent work. In unionized workplaces in the Philippines, the most widely used is the labor-management cooperation (LMC)...

FedEx Pilots Caution Against Tampering With Federal Rules Governing Labor Disputes.
WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Government interference with the collective bargaining process is unlikely to alleviate problems within the airline industry and could harm a system that clearly works, the union representing the pilots of Federal Express Corporation cautioned today. The FedEx Pilots Association (FPA)...

MIDDLE MAN.
When longtime Seattle Times reporter ROSS ANDERSON went on strike in November, he found himself at odds with a paper he loved, a wife he loved (a nonunion editor at the paper) and a Guild he was ambivalent about. As he struggled to make sense of it all, Anderson...

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout.
Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout. By Timothy Minchin (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. ix plus 233 pp.). A large billboard metaphorically looms over Timothy Minchin's wonderful book, Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout....

Pregnancy discrimination in Latin America: the exclusion of "employment discrimination" from the definition of "labor laws" in the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Regional trading blocs and bilateral trade agreements have become increasingly important within the western hemisphere. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have all been passed in the last fifteen years. This Article will focus principally...

328 OFWs return home from Kuwait.
Byline: ANJO PEREZ & LOUIE PEREZ The largest number of Filipino workers from Kuwait arrived in the country last Thursday evening after months of negotiations for settlement of their cases in the Middle East. A total of 328 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were flown back...

Reyes assures just solution to conflict.
Byline: ELENA L. ABEN Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Angelo Reyes stepped into the case of the violent dispersal of striking workers at the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac yesterday, as he visited and talked with the picketing workers whom he assured of government action...

ECoP conference ends with GMA as speaker.
Byline: GENALYN D. KABILING President Arroyo yesterday appealed anew to local employers to grant reasonable wage increase to their workers to help them cope with the impact of soaring oil prices as she set a goal to have zero labor strikes by the end of her term....

NLRC employes in mediation training.
Former Ambassador Roy V. Seneres, chairman of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), has ordered 80 NLRC employes to undergo intensive training in mediation. This is being implemented under Article 211 (a) of the Labor Code of the Philippines, as amended, declaring it as a state policy...

The wide world of sports is getting wider: a look at drafting foreign players into U.S. professional sports.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE RULES OF THE GAME A. Immigration Laws Affecting Foreign Athletes 1. The Current 0 Visa 2. The Current P Visa 3. Effect of the Current Legislation 4. Practical Application to Foreign Athletes B. Collective Bargaining 1. MLB Draft and Current CBA 2. NBA Draft and...