The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 284 announced last week its intention to unionize adjunct instructors at Macalester College and Hamline University. Both groups have filed election petitions with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The push for adjunct unionization is part of a larger national movement, led by unions like SEIU looking to find new sources of union …
Archives for April 2014
Solidarity cracking at AFSCME
The governor and legislature have all but outsourced policymaking to the state’s most powerful unions, as even a cursory review of this session’s key legislation makes clear. Governor Dayton has already signed into law two of Big Labor’s coveted prizes, an inflation-indexed minimum wage hike and the school bullying bill. In this final month of session, labor bosses intend to check off even more …
State labor board would be rigged
Legislation that has passed the Minnesota House and is moving through the Senate would create a new state employment board with broad legal and regulatory powers to settle disputes between public employers and government employee unions. HF 3014, which passed the House earlier this month, calls for the state to establish a three-member unelected Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to settle …