April 20, 2024
On Friday, August 19, Tennessee workers won their union in a resounding watershed victory. After two heartbreaking union elections at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant in 2014 and 2019, the votes have been tallied for a third, worker-led campaign to unionize the Volkswagen plant with the United Auto Workers. Workers overwhelmingly… Read More»
Tags: Tennessee, UAW, union election
December 12, 2014
On December 12, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its adoption of a final rule to modernize and streamline the process for resolving union representation disputes. The long overdue rule, taking effect on April 14, 2015, will reduce a number of obstacles working people face when trying to form… Read More»
Tags: Berkeley, Columbia University, Human Rights Watch, National Labor Relations Board, New Data: NLRB Process Fails to Ensure a Fair Vote, NLRB, No Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing, organizing, The Empirical Case for Streamlining the Election Process: The Role of Date of Unfair Labor Practice Occurrence, Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards, union, union election, University of California
