Splitting ranks.
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice By Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin University of California Press. 324 pages. $24.95. No reader of The Progressive needs...

A letter of apology.
We are pleased to announce that on July 29 the Industrial Workers of the World, representing former staff in our national office, withdrew the complaint it had filed against the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. As part of the settlement agreement, the National Board offers...

Supreme Court orders PAL to reinstate 1,473 cabin crew personnel.
In a decision written by Justice Consuelo Ynares Santiago, the SC ruled that if reinstatement is no longer feasible, PAL should pay backwages and separation pay equivalent to one month's pay for every year of service. PAL, which was found guilty of illegal dismissal, was also ordered...

Labor relations.
0313318646 Labor relations. Beik, Mildred A. Greenwood Pr. 2005 302 pages $65.00 Hardcover Major issues in American history HD5324 Beik (reference librarian, Georgia Perimeter College), an independent labor historian,...

SC affirms rulings reinstating 24 attendants of PAL.
Byline: Rey G. Panaligan The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the rulings of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and the Court of Appeals (CA) that ordered Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) to reinstate 24 attendants who were dismissed by their contractor in 1998 in violation of the...

Labor and employment law - uncertainty over burden of proof for mixed motive employee discharge.
Labor and Employment Law--Uncertainty Over Burden of Proof for Mixed Motive Employee Discharge--Hospital Cristo Redentor, Inc. v. NLRB, 488 F.3d 513 (1st Cir. 2007) In 1977, the United States Supreme Court espoused a framework to determine whether impermissibly discharging an employee due to his or her union...

Labor unions poised for a resurgence with change in tactics.
Byline: Andy Lewis For blue chip Since private sector union membership peaked at roughly 35 percent in 1953, the number of American workers affiliated with labor unions has hit an all-time low, dropping to just 7.4 percent in 2006. But for those who assume that downward trend...

Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.
INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups of agricultural guestworkers (2) again raises...

Labor's wage war.
INTRODUCTION Almost every growing sector in the bottom half of our economy--health care, child care, retail, building services, construction, and hospitality--is plagued by penurious employers who drag down working conditions for everyone. Common schemes emerge in jobs with sweatshop conditions: employers hide behind subcontractors, call their workers...

Ill-advised measure; Sick-leave mandate sends anti-business message.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION At a time when Massachusetts' economic well-being depends on promoting private-sector growth, a legislative committee's plan to micromanage sick-leave policy in the private sector is ill-conceived. The Labor and Workforce Development Committee last week approved a measure that would require employers...