2008 Labor Day List: Businesses Collaborating with Employees and Unions
August 26, 2008

2008 Labor Day List In the American Rights at Work Education Fund’s fourth annual Labor Day List: Partnerships that Work, we continue to shine the spotlight on positive relationships between employers and their employees.

In this year’s Labor Day List, we highlight a geographically diverse group of employers who show that good labor relations are possible in every sector of the economy. Wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa Technology Corporation, the Washington National Opera, and Alabama Power, a utility serving millions of residents in the South, are just a few of this year’s featured employers that prove that strong labor-management partnerships are the key to future success.  By working with their employees and the unions that represent them, Labor Day List employers have well-trained, efficient workforces and are invested in a socially-responsible approach to business that will carry them far in the future.  

» Check out the 2008 list.

 

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Lies & Distortion on the Secret Ballot

 

7/30/08—Business special interest groups have launched a $160 million campaign to derail reform of the nation's broken labor law system by lying about the Employee Free Choice Act.  Their only line of attack - that the bill somehow takes away so-called "secret ballot" elections for joining a union - is blatantly false.

 

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Ad Campaign Launches for Employee Free Choice Act at the Democratic National Convention 

 

8/26/08—Yesterday marked the start of new ads to broaden support for the Employee Free Choice Act.  Included in this kickoff are two prominent billboards in Denver and full page ads in Politico and USA Today. This is a preview of a larger campaign to make the Employee Free Choice Act a reality for workers struggling in this economy.

 

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Highlights

The Employee Free Choice Act

Employee Free Choice ActA growing, bipartisan coalition of policymakers supports the Employee Free Choice Act, federal legislation that would ensure workers have a free choice and a fair chance to form a union.  Learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act.


Fed Up with FedEx

Fed Up with FedEx When is a FedEx worker not a FedEx employee? When it benefits the FedEx Corporation.  A new report documents the widespread use of employee misclassification at FedEx Ground, which denies workers’ fundamental civil rights and workplace protections.


Featured Unionbuster: Employee Freedom Action Committee

Enter the Anti-Union NetworkThe Employee Freedom Action Committee is a new anti-union front group from Richard Berman that attacks Congressional candidates who support the Employee Free Choice Act. Behind the scenes, the group is a corporate-funded campaign against workers' rights. 


NLRB Elections Neither Free Nor Fair

Neither Free Nor FairAmerican Rights at Work releases a new report detailing the strategies - both legal and illegal - that typically comprise employers' efforts to deny their workers' rights to form unions and collectively bargain.  Read more about this report.


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