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Striking NYNEX
[Excerpt] The four-month strike by 60,000 telephone workers at NYNEX in 1989 was one of the largest and most significant anti-concession struggles of the decade.
In an era when many unions have lost highly publicized contract fights and been forced to make give-backs, the NYNEX strikers successfully resisted management demands that they pay hundreds and eventually thousands of dollars a year for their medical coverage. They also defeated the company\u27s drive for new forms of flexible compensation designed to replace base wage increases and COLAs with lump-sum payments and profit-sharing.
Successful union resistance to these concessions would not have been possible without an unprecedented pre-strike program of membership education and internal organizing. The contract campaign conducted by the 30 NYNEX local unions within the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and their allies in NYNEX units represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) reflects CWA\u27s nationwide commitment to rankand- file mobilization through the one-on-one approach
Hazardous workplaces: Making the Bangladesh Garment industry safe
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.CCC_2012_Report_Hazardous_Workplaces.pdf: 1104 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Final Report: Independent Investigation for the Fair Labor Association (Cimatextiles, Guatemala)
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Coverco_Final_Report_Cimatextiles.pdf: 29 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Retiree Health VEBAs: A New Twist on an Old Paradigm: Implications for Retirees, Unions and Employers
Explores the experiences and implications of stand-alone voluntary employees' beneficiary associations (VEBAs), through which employers can shed future obligations to pay retiree health benefits in exchange for a large payment. Includes case studies
Quiet No More: Philadelphia Confronts the Cost of Employee Benefits
Examines the financial difficulties Philadelphia's pension and healthcare benefits system faces due the stock market decline and rising healthcare costs in comparison with those of nine other cities' systems. Analyzes proposed restructuring plans
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Innovations in pay and grading in NHS trusts
This report examines innovations in pay and grading in 10 NHS trusts in England using data collected from March 2000 to January 2001, ie prior to the implementation of Agenda for Change. These 10 trusts, which varied in size, function, and location, were selected primarily to illustrate a variety of different approaches to pay and grading. The research utilised a qualitative methodology, with interviews of managers on a one to one basis, group interviews with lay union representatives, focus groups with staff and the inspection of documents. This study focused on four questions:
• Did local pay resolve the problems associated with Whitley?
• What were the consequences of local pay?
• Were the trusts’ pay systems introduced in line with 'new pay' ideas and current trends in reward management?
• What factors were critical to the success of developing and implementing local pay systems in NHS trusts
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The Clean Clothes Campaign’s sixth update regarding the Spectrum factory collapse on April 11, 2005, in Bangladesh
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