Charter schools and collective bargaining: compatible marriage or illegitimate relationship?
I. INTRODUCTION II. WHY CHARTER SCHOOLS III. EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS A. Charter Schools as High Performance Workplaces B. Traditional Public Schools and the Industrial Labor Relations Model C. The Industrial Model, Teacher Unions, and Charter Schools IV. TEACHER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKPLACES A. Teacher Unions...

National Labor Relations Commission 29th Founding Anniversary.
LABOR dispute adjudication started in the Philippines during the Commonwealth period when the Contract Labor Law act was passed by the US Congress on January 23, 1885, and was enforced in the Philippines on June 6, 1899. The law initially placed labor cases under the jurisdiction of the Court...

Sinyai, Clayton. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement.
Sinyai, Clayton. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 282 pages. Paper, $24.95. Union membership in the United States has been in a downward trajectory since the late 1960s, and union influence on public policymaking has diminished...

`Garage Mahal?'; Project labor agreement seen as factor in high cost of Union Station garage.
Byline: Shaun Sutner For $21.5 million, Worcester is building itself a new 503-space parking garage behind the expensively renovated, but long underused, Union Station. Most observers who have seen the artist's drawing of the brick-faced, precast concrete building with its impressive rotunda say the parking...

Board pledges to maintain industrial peace.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) vowed yesterday to intensify its efforts to sustain industrial peace this year despite a decrease in the number of strikes and lockouts in 2007. During the celebration of 20th anniversary of NCMB, Labor and...

Board pledges to maintain industrial peace.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO The National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) vowed yesterday to intensify its efforts to sustain industrial peace this year despite a decrease in the number of strikes and lockouts in 2007. During the celebration of 20th anniversary of NCMB, Labor and...

The Backup files; A look back at the week in business.
Byline: Bob Kievra COLUMN: THE BACKUP FILES There absolutely, positively has to be an election That's what the federal government and FedEx Home Delivery agreed to last week in a settlement stemming from a union-organizing effort in Northboro. Teamsters Local 170...

Bill would allow unions to form without a secret ballot.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINTS By John Sweeney and Pat Riggs-Henson For The Register-Guard It shouldn't take a hero to form a union, or a superhuman effort to feed your family, pay the rent, go to the doctor or look forward to a secure retirement. But increasingly,...

Made in Chinatown: the decline of San Francisco's garment industry.
INTRODUCTION On February 23, 2004, San Francisco raised its minimum wage from $6.75 to $8.50. (2) While many workers undoubtedly celebrated this pay increase, many local industries and employers began to look for alternative business locations as a way of avoiding the extra $1.75 per hour they...

Police union seeks decertification; Rival group ready to represent patrol officers.
Byline: Shaun Sutner WORCESTER - More than half of the Police Department's 350 patrol officers have signed cards requesting an election next month to drop the union that has represented them for the last three decades. The upcoming decertification election will further delay the start...