Union Rights

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado (San Diego Union)

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:44:01 GMT

Source: labs.ebuzzing.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syria n capital of Damascus . They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. Source : San Diego Union Explore : Syria , World ...

Sony wins rights for Angry Birds feature (ABU - Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union)

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:28:00 GMT

Source: wn.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
(Source: ABU - Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) Sony Pictures Entertainment has scored the exclusive worldwide distribution Rights for the highly anticipated... ...

COLUMN: Agar – Liqour union and silly human rights complaint

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:27:11 GMT

Source: blogs.canoe.ca --- Friday, May 17, 2013
OPSEU’s silly human Rights complaint by Jerry Agar Here’s more evidence that public unions are out of their minds. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), representing LCBO employees, has filed a gender-discrimination complaint against the liquor retailer with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Their argument? OPSEU alleges the LCBO is discriminating against women, since 70% of their casual workers — those working less than 40 hours, with fewer benefits — are women. So supposedly this is anti-female? What would the Union like the government to do? Would they agree to a hiring freeze on women, with literally all new hires for casual employment being men until they hit 50/50 male/female parity? They would certainly do that in the reverse if their complaint was that the LCBO was not hiring enough women. By the way, the LCBO says the majority of full-time employees are also female. Would they like the government monopoly to pay women more than they pay the men doing the same job? They would have a hard time defending that scenario, of course. Does the Union believe that women are stupid? That women, but not men, can be tricked into taking part-time work counter to their best interests? According to CouponCabin.com’s Mother’s Day survey, nearly seven in 10 moms would stay home if they could. PRNewswire quotes Jackie Warrick of CouponCabin.com: “Many companies recognize the challenges that working moms face and provide a ...

Fast Food Workers In 5 Cities Strike For Higher Pay And Union Rights

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:38:53 GMT

Source: risingfist.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=162745407117628"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); It’s about time these fast food companies start paying up! The wages they pay are straight up ridiculous! Via Daily Kos : “Fast food workers in yet another city have walked out for a one-day strike, seeking better wages and the right to form unions. Milwaukee is the fifth city hit by such a strike in the past six weeks;..’ ‘ When a worker is on food stamps, that’s an employer that is relying on taxpayers to augment wages, to bring workers up to the bare minimum they need to survive. Full-time work at $8.25 an hour—a full dollar above the federal minimum wage—still leaves a family of three below the poverty level. ..” [ Continue Reading ] I originally found this link on Reddit where you can find some great comments. Check them out over here . Via Calcifer643 : “ The biggest problem with food stamps is that they don’t allow you to improve your situation. They give you the bare minimum to live on then right when you start making a little extra money they completely kick you off or knock you down so low you can’t live. It gets to the point that you make more from not working than you can from working which is the fundamental problem with our current ...

Hongrie: Human Rights Watch réclame la surveillance de l'Union européenne

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:24:43 GMT

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
NEW YORK, États-Unis - L'organisme Human Rights Watch réclame de l'Union européenne (UE) qu'elle s'assure que les changements que la Hongrie veut apporter à sa Constitution et à certaines de ses lois respectent les normes internationales dans une foule de domaines, allant de l'indépendance judiciaire aux droits des sans-abri. Dans un rapport dévoilé ce jeudi, l'organisme basé à New York, qui a placé la Hongrie sous surveillance, propose que le pays soit confronté à des échéances pour se plier aux demandes internationales et que des sanctions lui soient rapidement imposées s'il ne le fait pas. Plusieurs observateurs affirment que le gouvernement du premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban veut profiter de sa majorité des deux tiers à l'Assemblée législative, à Budapest, pour faire adopter des modifications législatives et constitutionnelles qui pourraient ébranler la démocratie. En février dernier, Human Rights Watch a critiqué le rétrécissement de l'espace de liberté accordé à la presse en Hongrie et, là aussi, a exigé une intervention de l'Union européenne. Human Rights Watch a fait part d'un manque d'indépendance du Conseil des médias, le principal organisme de contrôle des médias, l'annulation de la licence d'une importante station de radio indépendante, l'autocensure pratiquée par les organes de presse indépendants ainsi que les ingérences politiques courantes dans la télévision publique. ...

The Insulation of Austerity: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Union Institutions

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:27:17 GMT

Source: humanrights.ie --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The IMF in the past was somewhat infamous for its distancing of international human Rights law. For years and years, it saw itself as sealed off from the content of human Rights treaties . Indeed there have even been more extreme claims to say that the Articles of Agreement of the IMF free the organisation from the rules of customary international law. This approach from the specialised, function focused IMF, one thought, would not be applied by the more public law attuned European Union institutions. When we look at memoranda of understanding and the design of funding programmes we often see the province of the economist, the market and international relations. Certainly for economists, the application of human Rights law to current macro-economic predicaments is descried as pie in the sky. Yet, before we unveil the new era of technocracy and hand the keys over to the economists, we must test the institutions’ actions against public law values. It is important to note that ‘agreements’ and ‘memorandum of understandings’ often fail to satisfy basic rule of law values, such as clarity, predictability and congruence with the actual terms. At the basic level, a citizens’ (whether national or European) right to reconstruct the decision-making process is conspicuously absent, and often conducted through unprofessional newspaper interviews. If we look at the flow of information over the past number of years we see the communication of ...

Teachers union files civil rights suits to stop school closings

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:42:50 GMT

Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A week before the Chicago Public Schools board is to vote on the closing of 53 elementary schools, the Chicago Teachers Union has filed two federal lawsuits to stop the district. ...

Milwaukee makes five (cities so far): Fast food workers strike for higher pay and union rights

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:18:09 GMT

Source: www.dailykos.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Milwaukee workers talk about making ends meet in low-wage jobs. Fast food workers in yet another city have walked out for a one-day strike, seeking better wages and the right to form unions. Milwaukee is the fifth city hit by such a strike in the past six weeks; there as in Chicago, retail workers are also joining the strike. The strategy is the same as in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit: A one-day strike by as many workers in any given store are ready to walk out, with community support not just at the time of the strike but the next day as workers return to their jobs. The complaints are the same , too: Milwaukee Burger King employee Tessie Harrell says she earned the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour from 2008 through 2012, even after she was promoted to shift supervisor in 2011. Last year, she got a raise to $8.25 an hour. But she says that's not enough to pay the $650 monthly rent on her two-bedroom apartment and support her six children. "I can't afford to buy my kids shoes," says Harrell, 34, who gets food stamps and $150 a month from her mother. "There's no way I should be struggling to make ends meet." When a worker is on food stamps, that's an employer that is relying on taxpayers to augment wages, to bring workers up to the bare minimum they need to survive. Full-time work at $8.25 an hour—a full dollar above the federal minimum wage—still leaves a family of three below the poverty level. This wave of strikes ...

Breaking News: Teamster Union Faces Charges for Papering Over Indy Domtar Workers' Rights

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:16:35 GMT

Source: www.nrtw.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Teamster Union Faces Charges for Papering Over Indy Domtar Workers' Rights Union and company officials ignore Indiana's Right to Work law Indianapolis, IN (May 15, 2013) – Six Indianapolis-area Domtar Paper Company (NYSE: UFS) workers have filed federal charges against a local Teamster Union and the company for violating their right to refrain from dues-paying Union membership. read more ...

Greece: solidarity with teachers as their trade union rights are undermined

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:07:41 GMT

Source: www.global-unions.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
EI and its European organisation, the ETUCE, have expressed solidarity with Greek teachers and their Union in their call to maintain their right to strike. EI General Secretary Fred Van Leeuwen has formally asked the Greek Prime Minister Samaras to uphold the civil Rights of teachers in the (...) ...

Thailand limits shackles to improve inmate rights (San Diego Union)

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:04:41 GMT

Source: labs.ebuzzing.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Thailand has limited the use of shackles on more than 500 prisoners who committed serious crimes in a move to conform to international human Rights standards. Source : San Diego Union Explore : Asia , Human Rights , World ...

Fast food workers campaign for union rights and living wage came to Detroit rece...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:18:06 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Fast food workers campaign for Union Rights and living wage came to Detroit recently as 400 walked off their jobs. If you support their cause, please LIKE and SHARE this story. Fast food wages equal “junk food money” » peoplesworld peoplesworld.org Starting at 6:00 a.m. and ending late in the afternoon, up to 400 fast food workers, making a $7.40 minimum wage, walked off their jobs at fast food outlets across the city here. Along with their allies from the labor, faith and social justice community, they held large rallies at McDonald's, Popeye... ...

Bangladesh garment workers get union rights, higher pay in wake of deadly factory collapse

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:19:48 GMT

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
Gov't boosts pay, agrees to let garment workers form unions without permission from factory owners in wake of deadly collapse ...

Council member Christine Quinn advocates for student union rights

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:50:33 GMT

Source: nyunews.com --- Sunday, May 12, 2013
“We have been working on these issues at NYU for far too long.” City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s words, delivered outside Bobst Library, didn’t float up the twelve stories to John Sexton’s office. They were fired. On Thursday afternoon, Quinn and several other New York City leaders came to NYU to speak out in support of research assistant and teaching assistant collective bargaining Rights. After a round of speeches and pledges of support, the group headed inside Bobst to deliver an open letter to Sexton signed by over 250 state elected officials as well as a petition from over 1,000 NYU RAs and TAs. Lead by the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, a labor Union representing graduate teaching and research assistants at NYU, and long time affiliate the United Auto Workers, one of the top national labor unions in the country, the rally was staged in protest of the benefits cuts and premium hikes made to graduate employee health plans in fall 2012. The volley of criticism rallied protesters outside the main student library. Assemblywoman Deborah Glick criticized the current system as “indentured servitude.” State Senator Brad Hoylman compared NYU to multinational corporations like Walmart. “We want to make academia a profession for everyone in New York, not just those who happen to have a lot of money in their pocket. That is what this is about,” Quinn said. The issue of graduate employee unionization has a long history at N ...

Homophobia and LGBT rights top of agenda at union conference

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:52:08 GMT

Source: local.stv.tv --- Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Scottish Trades Union Congress is holding an LGBT workers' conference for a second year. ...

Non-Union Nationwide Retailer's Policies Regarding Solicitation and Confidentiality Violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA); National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Orders Notice of Employee Rights Posted at 1,755 Stores

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Source: www.elinfonet.com --- Thursday, May 09, 2013
Target Corporation has been found in violation of federal labor law by maintaining overly broad employment policies regarding solicitation and confidentiality, among other things. The claims stem from a failed organizing campaign waged by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 at a Target store in Valley Stream, New York. ...

Court Strikes Down NLRB Rule on Union-Rights Poster

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:16:00 GMT

Source: www.industryweek.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
National Association of Manufacturers lauds the ruling as an 'important victory against an activist NLRB.' National Association of Manufacturers lauds the ruling as an 'important victory against an activist NLRB.' read more ...

Is union-backed rights bill protecting 'dirty' guards?- Family of guard killed in prison riot sues

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:54:13 GMT

Source: www.foxnews.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
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Poster rule requiring notice of union rights is struck down by DC Circuit

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:30:47 GMT

Source: www.abajournal.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
A federal appeals court has struck down a rule requiring employers to post a notice advising workers of their Rights, including the right to form or join a Union. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the rule in an opinion (PDF)… ...

Union rights dealt a blow again by appeals court

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:59:38 GMT

Source: data.msnbc.msn.com --- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
The National Labor Relations Board violated the law when it required U.S. businesses to put notices in their workplaces and on their websites informing employees of their right to unionize, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the rule, finding that federal law prohibits the labor board... ...