Archive for October, 2003

Coming soon: George takes on the AFL-CIO website propaganda

Friday, October 31st, 2003

This website, the AFL-CIO’s “Eye on Corporate America,” has lots of biased and misleading stuff I’d like to challenge and rebut. Can’t do it all at once, but hope to make it a continuing series, first installment next week. Maybe it’ll be George’s “Eye on Big Labor.”

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UFCW defeated in ill-timed California representation election

Friday, October 31st, 2003

KTVU.com reports: “Famed Berkeley Bowl Votes Down Union.”

“Workers at this city’s much-loved Berkeley Bowl Marketplace on Thursday defeated a union organizing effort, voting 119-70 to remain a nonunion grocery store.”

“The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 120, which was behind the campaign, said employees voted against unionization because of management threats.”

“‘The employer has so much [...]

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Count your blessings as to economy

Friday, October 31st, 2003

Yahoo! News (AP) reports: “French Unemployment Hits 3 1/2 Year High.”

“The French unemployment rate edged up to 9.7 percent in September to a three-and-a-half-year high as the number of people without jobs recorded its sharpest monthly increase in seven years, increasing pressure on the country’s fragile economic recovery.”

Compared to that we’re not doing that badly, [...]

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St. Louis grocery strike ends with significant company concessions

Friday, October 31st, 2003

St. Louis Post Dispatch reports: “Grocery workers end walkout”

“Grocery workers off their jobs since Oct. 7 voted overwhelmingly today to accept a new contract and return to their jobs.”

“Details of the contract had not been released before union members began gathering at the convention center at 7:30 a.m. But the Post-Dispatch learned that the [...]

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Good case on age discrimination defense using evidence of hiring of other older employees

Friday, October 31st, 2003

Shannon P. Duffy writes in The Legal Intelligencer “‘Subsequent Good Act’ by Employer Admissible Company sued for age discrimination can show it hired older worker.”

“In an age discrimination suit, the defendant company may present evidence that it hired another older worker more than a year after the plaintiff was fired because such evidence is relevant to the [...]

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