OWS messaging and labor

Steve Early's post at BeyondChron does a great job of explaining why the Occupy Wall Street message resonates and big labor's message about the middle class does not.

Back to basics - organize!

Thats what Randy Shaw says at BeyondChron. The solution to stopping labors decline in membership is not political, it is based on investment in organizing. Randy's right, hard work and organizing are required. Quick political fixes are not happening.

Berkeley Bowl decertification

By a vote of 99-74 employees at a San Francisco supermarket voted to decertify the UFCW. This BeyondChron article provides some inside analysis of the "why" it happened. More after the jump.

NUHW bests SEIU, employer

NUHW has again bested SEIU and the employer with an impressive representation election victory (393-122). Randy Shaw's BeyondChron article has the details. The SEIU blamed management intimidation for its withdrawal from a 3 way election. Not only did NUHW win a lopsided victory, it was able to point to the fact it overcame the very employer hostility SEIU ran away from.

Size matters

Union density matters, that is. This BeyondChron piece dramatically exhibits the external pressure union activists can put on employers to encourage them to "cooperate" in the process of their employees "selecting" union representation in the major hotels in San Francisco. More after the jump

SEIU/NUHW continue the fight

San Francisco alternative news source BeyondChron has a couple of interesting articles on the SEIW/NUHW dispute. The first details the support NUHW has received from Bay area progressives and labor leaders as well as the increasing isolation of the SEIU. The second, posted Nov. 18, details SEIU's egg throwing at NUHW supporters. A separate post from the Business and Media Institute details SEIU's misadventures well covered in the blogosphere, but ignored by ABC, NBC, CBS. The post ignores Fox.