General Membership Meetings for July 2009 will be held in the 2nd floor meeting room at the TWU Union Hall.
General Membership Meetings are scheduled for: July 2009 Times & Date: TBA
Refreshments will be served at all meetings.
An informed Membership is a united Membership. STAY INFORMED!
Have a safe & happy 4th of July!
Picnic Information
The date for the Local 512 annual open house/picnic has been set for Thursday, July 30, 2009. Catering will be provided by Sweet Baby Ray's Details are being finalized and will be provided.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 July 2009 )
Employee Free Choice Act
Monday, 06 April 2009
How American Labor Law Denies a Quarter of the Workforce Collective Bargaining Rights
The right to organize and bargain collectively under the protection of law is the bedrock upon which workers are able to form or join a labor union. American labor law has not kept pace with the changing nature and face of the modern workplace and increasingly excludes more and more workers from this legal protection. Increasing numbers of employees have a supervisory aspect or capacity of their work. More and more immigrants join the workforce, especially in the agricultural sector, and more people have been classified as independent contractors, whether by choice or by an employer’s decision. As these changes take place, American labor law denies these workers their legally-protected right to form unions and collectively bargain by either defining workers as not employees or by expressly excluding them.
There are 140.5 million people in the civilian workforce. Our research found that of these employees, 33.5 million, or 23.8%, have no rights under the NLRA or any other labor law: no legally-protected right to join or form a union, no legally-protected right to bargain collectively for their wages and conditions of work, and therefore, effectively no freedom of association in the workplace.
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