That Union Thing

From AFL-CIO Work in Progress:

NEUTRALITY VIOLATION—An arbitrator awarded immediate union recognition for 103 workers at AT&T Local Network Services in Orlando, Fla., after finding the company guilty of violating its neutrality and consent agreement with the Communications Workers of America. A majority of the workers had shown support for the union through a card-check prior to a July 17 election in which the union lost.

AFL-CIO SEEKS PROBE OF MIAMI POLICE—The AFL-CIO is asking the U.S. Justice Department and the state of Florida to conduct separate, independent investigations of the “massive and unwarranted repression of constitutional rights and civil liberties” by Miami police Nov. 20–21 during peaceful protests by more than 20,000 people against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. “Our right to deliver this message in a peaceful environment was systematically thwarted by police in Miami,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said in letters to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R). The massive police presence in Miami—which included 2,500 officers from some 40 jurisdictions clad in riot gear with batons and armored personnel carriers—was financed in part by $8.5 million in anti-terror federal funds passed by Congress in its $87 billion appropriation bill to rebuild Iraq. The USWA also called for a congressional investigation into the police actions.

ORLANDO WORKERS CHOOSE SEIU—A large majority of 945 city of Orlando, Fla., workers voted to join SEIU 1199FL in mid-December—making the city an all-union workforce. The white-collar and professional workers—including 911 dispatchers and crime-scene technicians—wanted a voice on the job after suffering layoffs in the summer.

Unions…Protecting Professional Dignity, Providing a Voice in the Workplace

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