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NH state employees organizing with card check - why not VT?
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Traven
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May 23, 2008 10:02 PDT
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The Vermont legislature failed for two years
to pass even a more limited card check bill!
AFSCME, UAW Join Forces in New Hampshire
Posted By James Parks On May 22, 2008 @ 10:15 am In Organizing
& Bargaining | No Comments
Employees at the
University of New Hampshire (UNH) are seeking a voice on the job through
a historic coordinated effort by two unions[1]
AFSCME and [2]
UAW.
Kelly Hinton, an eight-year financial support specialist, says:
This is great news for all UNH employees. We feel that the two unions
working together will be a good fit for the University alongside of the
faculty union. Working together with AFSCME and the UAW means we are
united and stronger.
Says Lonn Sattler, a veterans coordinator who has worked at UNH for
26 years:
This is a terrific opportunity for us to have a real, effective voice
on the job. With two great unions working together, we can make UNH a
better place to work.
Last year, the state Legislature passed legislation allowing state
employees, including those at UNH, to form unions and bargain with their
employers when a majority of workers sign union authorization cards.
AFSCME and UAW agreed to coordinate organizing efforts and support the
negotiating teams of all UNH workers who are successful in forming their
own local unions and bargaining units. Under the agreement, clerical,
technical, skilled trades and administrative employees and certain
supervisory employees will be eligible to join AFSCME. Service and
professional staff, adjunct faculty members and some supervisors will be
eligible to become part of the UAW.
Both unions say the partnership will help the workers. Says Bob Madore,
director of UAW Region 9A:
Our goal is to help workers who want to form their own unions. By
combining resources so we can work with AFSCME, we can be even more
effective.
Alva Arellano, AFSCME’s director of organizing in New England, adds:
This is the right approach for UNH workers and for our two unions.
We’re going to help UNH workers join together so they can have a voice in
the decisions that affect their lives and improve the important public
services they provide.
Article printed from AFL-CIO NOW BLOG:
http://blog.aflcio.org
URL to article:
<a href="http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/22/afscme-uaw-join-forces-in-new-hampshire/" eudora="autourl">
http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/22/afscme-uaw-join-forces-in-new-hampshire/<br>
URLs in this post:
[1] AFSCME:
http://www.afscme.org
[2] UAW:
http://www.uaw.org<br>
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