Nurse Claims Facebook Rant Was Protected
By William Dotinga, Courthouse News Service
A nurse who pitched a fit on Facebook for having to work on her birthday sued the hospital that fired her and the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
Tag Archives: California
Labor unions the big loser in mayor’s race
By Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Labor gambled and lost.
Wendy Greuel drove away much of her own base.
Two-Day Strike to Hit California Hospitals
By Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal
A health-care workers union plans a two-day strike starting Tuesday at the University of California’s five medical centers, prompting officials at the nationally renowned hospitals to cancel hundreds of surgeries and chemotherapy treatments.
Forced union dues violate free speech
By Michael Carvin, James Burnham and Terence Pell, greenbaypressgazette.com
Just as the government cannot stop you from supporting a political candidate, it cannot make you pay to support a candidate. The First Amendment protects both the right to support political causes and the right to not support them.
State labor board moves to limit UC Medical Center strike
KTVU.com
State labor officials will move to limit the number of University of California medical center employees who can go out on strike next week at facilities including UC San Francisco, university officials said Friday.
Collective bargaining behind the scenes
By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog.org
Government employees’ salaries and benefits, and in particular, pensions, are financially unsustainable in California. It is clear that collective bargaining reform is needed. But in a state run by politicians elected largely with the financial support of labor and public employee unions, reform is a dirty word.
13 healthcare workers arrested in protest at UC regents meeting
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
Thirteen people were arrested Wednesday at the UC regents meeting during a sit-down protest by healthcare workers threatening to strike at the system’s medical centers.
Unions protest over potential sale of L.A. Times to Koch brothers
By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers.
AT&T Park concession workers authorize strike with near unanimous vote
By Mark Townsend, Yahoo! Sports
In a big labor battle that has been developing out in San Francisco, concession workers at AT&T Park voted nearly unanimously — 97 percent — on Saturday to give their union the authority to call for a strike.
Battle at Kaiser Permanente is sign of vibrant unions in healthcare
By Amanda Becker, Thomson Reuters News & Insight
The Service Employees International Union fended off an upstart rival last week in a union-on-union battle over California healthcare workers, a symptom not of labor’s decline but of its growth in the health sector.