American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Change to Win Coalition (CTWC), Independent
October 29, 2008--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have organized the following workers: First Student school bus drivers and aides in Mission Viejo and Irvine, California, Local 952, part time correctional facility officers of Bay County, Michigan, Local 214, around 600 drivers and dockworkers at UPS Freight terminal in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Local 776. Since the beginning of the year close to 12,400 UPS Freight workers from across the country have joined the Teamsters. Also, First Student bus drivers, monitors, and dispatchers in Cincinnati, Ohio are now members of Local 100 and workers of the Lake County, Illinois Circuit Court Clerk's office officially voted to join the IBT. Healthcare workers at the Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in California, have voted to have a voice on the job with Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers-West.
October 23, 2008--AFL-CIO
Approximately 180 dispatchers with Southwest Airlines in Texas have voted to join the Transport Workers Union Local 550. Workers at Avis car rental at the Denver, Colorado, International Airport have voted to join the Communications Workers of America along with over 100 call center workers at AT&T Mobility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, have joined through majority sign-up. Nearly 100 workers with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles, California International Airport have joined American Federation of Government Employees. Attorneys with the Public Defender and Criminal Defense Departments of Bay County, Michigan will be represented by AFSCME Council 25, and close to 1,000 administrators for the state of Illinois are now members of Council 31.
August 28, 2008--AFL-CIO
Approximately 150 workers at the Federal Aviation Administration voted to join the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. The California Public Employment Relations Board has certified the United Auto Workers as representative for the aproximately 5,000 University of California postdoctoral researchers. Quality assurance workers for Northrop Gruman Ship Systems in Pascagula, Mississippi, will now have a voice on the job with the International Association of Machinists, as will bus drivers and monitors for First Student in Phoenix, Arizona. At the Mountain Home Air Force base in Boise, Idaho, maintenance and staff workers have joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 291 and workers at the AES Ironwood power plant in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Local 777. Through majority sign-up, workers at AT&T Mobility in Boardman, Ohio are now members of the Communication Workers of America, Local 4320, and city workers in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Local 6012. Cleaning workers at Oriole Park, Camden Yards, Maryland, have voted to join AFSCME, as have bus and van drivers for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, workers at the Monroe County, Indiana library, court house workers of Douglas County, Wisconsin, bus drivers at Arlington, Virginia Transit, and bus mechanics for the Potomac and Rappahannock Virginia Transportation Commission, Local 3001, in Minnesota, social service workers for Mahnomen County, info technology workers in Rice County, and vocational counselors in Hennepin County. Also, workers at Sharon Baptist Church Head Start in the Bronx, New York, District Council 1707, employees of the Electric and Water Department of South Norwalk, Connecticut, and equipment operators, water distribution and other municipal workers for the Village of Granville, Ohio.
July 03, 2008--CTWC
Over 100 school bus drivers in the Kingston, Ontario, Canada area have voted to become menbers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 91. Other IBT organizing wins include: drivers for First Transit at Georgia Southern University, Local 728, shuttle drivers with Metro Transportation in Detroit, Michigan, Local 283, police officers of South Holland, Illinois, Local 714, tractor-trailer drivers at Penske Logistics in Bedford, Massachusetts, Local 25, First Transit bus drivers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Local 523, First Student school bus drivers, monitors, and mechanics in Neptune City, New Jersey, Local 469, workers for Waste Management stations in the Stockton, California area, Local 439, employees of four Tri-County Building Supplie stores in New Jersey, Local 676, school bus drivers and monitors for First Student in Crest Hill, Illinois, Local 179, in Collingswood, New Jersey, Local 676, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Local 776 and in New Hope and Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, Local 384.
June 29, 2008--AFL-CIO
At the Richard Hall Mental Health Center in Somerset County, New Jersey, professional employees have joined the Communication Workers of America Local 1037, substitute teachers for the Santa Ana school district in California will have a voice on the job with Local 9510, and retail sale representatives for AT&T Mobility in South Carolina are now members of the CWA. Also, newsroom workers at newspapers throughout California's East Bay area have voted to join The Newspaper Guild / CWA.
May 27, 2008--CTWC
Workers at Prudential Overall Supply in Vista, California chose to be represented by UNITE HERE. In Jacksonville, Florida, school bus workers for First Student have a voice on the the job with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 512. Other organizing wins for the IBT include: bus drivers and monitors for First Student in Abington, Pennsylania, Local 348, bus drivers and monitors for First Student in DeSoto and Shawnee, Kansas, Local 838, in Plaistow, New Hampshire, Local 633, and in Kingston, New York, Local 445, and workers at New Era Cap in Jackson, Alabama voted for Local 991.
May 27, 2008--Independent
The United Electrical Workers scored two organizing wins in the Chicago, Illinois area. Factory workers at Merkle Korff, a producer of sub-fractional motors and at Ferro Pfanstiehl, a pharmaceutical company.
May 21, 2008--AFL-CIO
Workers at AT&T Mobility stores in Idaho, along with 400 workers at the New Era Cap Co. in Demopolis, Alabama chose Communication Workers of America, and mail room workers at SPC Printing in Hibbing, Minnesota voted to join Typogaphical Union 727 / CWA Local 14726, AT&T call center workers in Birmingham, Alabama and Davenport, Iowa have joined the CWA, along with FairPoint call center workers in South China and Winthrop, Maine, workers at Books and Rattles day care centers in Queens, New York, Local 1180, and employees of Metropolitan Translators in Los Angeles, California, Local 9400. Also, detention officers and deputy sheriffs in the Woodbury County Sheriff's Department in Sioux City, Iowa voted to affiliate with the Communication Workers. City office and administrative employees of Tulsa, Oklahoma will be represented by AFSCME and approximately 20,000 home-based child care providers in Pennsylvania have voted for Child Care Providers United, a joint effort of AFSCME and SEIU and 8,000 child care providers in Ohio will be members of Child Care Providers Together / AFSCME Council 8. At Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, the adjunct faculty will now have a voice at work with the Adjunct Faculty Organization / American Federation of Teachers. Gas workers at Public Service New Mexico voted to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 611, workers at South Central Arkansas Electrical Cooperative voted to join IBEW Local 295, and TV technical employees In Boston, Massachusetts, Local 1228. Daphne, Alabama firefighters will now be represented by the International Association of Fire Fighters. Technical directors, audio-video technicians, and camera operators at Fox Sports Net North in Minneapolis, Minnesota now belong to the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees. The International Association of Machinists have reported the following organizing wins: mechanics at Johnson Controls Inc. in Los Angeles, California, drivers for Railcrew Xpress in Brighton, Missouri, and mechanics at First Student Inc. in Spokane, Washington.
May 15, 2008--CTWC
UNITE HERE has the following organizing victories: workers at American Eagle Outfitters in Ontario, Canada, workers at IMA auto parts manufacturer in Louisville, Kentucky, employees at Mexx-Rockland store in Montreal, and hotel workers at the Glendale Hilton in Los Angeles, California, Local 11. Workers that now have a voice on the job with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: In Batavia and Elba, New York, school bus drivers and aides for First Student are new members of Local 264, drivers for Eby-Brown in Montgomery, Illinois voted for Local 754, school bus drivers and monitors for First Student in Greensboro, North Carolina are going with Local 391, shool bus drivers for First Student in Stafford Springs and Willington, Connecticut, Local 671, drivers and warehouse workers at Admiral Building Supply in Woburn, Massachusetts, Local 25, school bus drivers, monitors and mechanics for First Student in Omaha, Nebraska, Local 554, in Cologne, New Jersey, Local 331, and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Local 633, workers at H and M International in Charlotte, North Carolina, Local 71, in Mississauga, Canada, school bus drivers with First Student signed up with Local 938, paratransit dispatchers and schedulers in Braintree, Massachusetts signed up with Local 25, First Transit workers in McHenry, Illinois, Local 731, machine shop and other workers at General Die Casters, Inc. in Akron, Ohio, Local 24, workers at DHL sort facility in Niles, Michigan, Local 299, over 4,000 mechanics for United Airlines, employees of RC Cola in Kentucky, Local 783, crew members of TradeWinds Airlines in Texas, Local 747, and mechanics and technicians for DHL in Wilmington, Ohio.
April 07, 2008--AFL-CIO
In California approximately 162 nuclear engineers at PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California / International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 20. Registered nurses at Buffalo Hospital in Buffalo, Minnesota overwhelmingly chose to join Minnesota Nurses Association / United American Nurses. Registered nurses at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center in Texas are now members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee / California Nurses Association. Workers at the Rite Aid distribution center in Lancaster, California are now represented by Local 26 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Tier 1 DSL customer service workers at AT&T in Birmingham, Alabama, have joined Communication Workers of America Local 3902 through the card-check procedure.
March 15, 2008--AFL-CIO
In Dover, New Hampshire 600 cuustomer service reps at AT&T Government Solutions are now members of Local 1298 of the Communication Workers of America. Also, 1,000 adult day care providers in New Jersey with CWA Locals 1037 and 1040 by way of card-check. Nurses at Los Alamos Medical Center in Los Angeles, California have voted to join National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees / AFSCME. Approximately 17,000 child care providers in the state of New York voted overwhelmingly to join CSEA / Child Care Providers Together / AFSCME. In Maryland around 4,000 home care providers/aides have become members of AFSCME. As have nurses at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside, California and city employees of Yankton, South Dakota. Hotel workers at Princeville Resort on Kauai's North Shore, Hawaii will be represented by Local 142 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. In Colorado, workers at a private firm contracted by the Rapid Transit Development chose Local 1001 of the Amalgamated Transit Union. Service workers at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California have a voice on the job with the United Steelworkers of America. The following workers have voted to join the International Association of Machinists: The 74 employees of Data Monitoring Systems in Marietta, Georgia--Local 611, 58 workers at Imperial Manufacturing Belton--District 9, and 47 flight attendants at CommutAir in New York--Local 2339c.
February 29, 2008--CTWC
New members for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters include: Coach drivers and maintenance at Professional Transit Management in Atlanta, Georgia, Local 528, bus operators for First Transit in Atlanta for Local 728, drivers for Towne Air Freight and over 900 satellite installers in Indianapolis, Indiana for Local 135, maintenance workers at National Wine and Spirits near Detroit, Michigan with Local 337, drivers and equipment operators for the towns of Malta and Athens, New York along with bus mechanics of First Student in the Catskills for Local 294, school bus drivers for First Student in Nashua, New Hampshire, Local 633, workers of First Student in Lafayette, New Jersey, Local 102, workers of First Transit in Joliet, Illinois, with Local 179, and workers of the Stillwater Central Railroad in Oklahoma for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees,
a division of the IBT.
December 21, 2007--AFL-CIO
At Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, 300 registered nurses have voted to join California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee. as have nurses at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada. Employees of Clark County Department of Job and Family Services in Ohio are new members of AFSCME Council 8, bank tellers and other workers at U.S. Bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin voted in favor of Council 48, workers of Maplewood Nursing Home in Cheshire County, New Hampshire with Council 93, as did bus drivers for First Student, Inc. in Augusta, Maine, and more than 3,700 home-based child care workers in Pennsylvania are now members of Child Care Workers UnitedInternational Association of Machinists include: warehouse workers at Genco Infrastructure in Havelock, North Carolina, and aircraft Maitenance at Vertex Aerospace in Tomball, Texas. Dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut will be represented by the United Auto Workers. Close to 1,000 employees of H and M clothing store chain in Manhattan,New York are now members of the RWDSU / United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1102. Nurses at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, voted for Nurses United / American Federation of Teachers, and almost 28,000 home child care workers in New York have a voice with United Federation of Teachers / AFT.
November 09, 2007--CTWC
Home health assistants in Massachsetts voted overwhelmingly to join 1199 Service Employees International Union. Also, security guards that protect historic sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have a voice on the job with SEIU Local 32BJ.
September 20, 2007--AFL-CIO
Analysts at the Government Accountability Office's have voted to be members of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. Maintenance workers at six different locations in 5 states at UPS Freight won card-check recognition with the International Association of Machinists. At the Monmouth-Ocean Hospital Service Corp. in New Jersey, nurses, paramedics, dispatchers, and emergency medical technicians have joined the International Association of Fire Fighters. Police officers for Port St. Lucie, Florida are now represented by the International Union of Police Associations Employees that have joined the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees include workers at Disneyland's Pyrotechnics Department, Califonia, Local 44, showroom technicians at three Las Vegas casinos with Local 720, and wardrobe department workers at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. with Local 722. Drivers and dispatchers at IBA Molecular in Ewing, New Jersey voted for the Communication Workers of America Local 1032. In Fargo, North Dakota workers at Rugby Manufacturing Co. have a voice at work with the International Association of Machinists Local 2525, adult, child day care, fitness and health workers at the YWCA in Quincy, Illinois with Local 660, and industrial maintenance workers at BE&L Industrial Services with Local 882. Also, 18 maintenance workers at the Pensacola, Florida Naval Air Station and technicians at Engineering and Consulting at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. School bus drivers, monitors and mechanics at First Student transportation in Indianapolis, Indiana voted for representation by AFSCME. Slot technicians at Caesars Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey voted in favor for the United Auto Workers as did dealers at the Tropicana Casino.
August 24, 2007--CTWC
Approximately 80 workers at Mountainview Nursing Home in New Paltz, New York voted to join 1199 Service Employees International Union / United Healthcare Workers East. Service and maintenance workers at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are now members of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota.
August 24, 2007--Independent
Workers of Colombia County in New York have chosen the United Public Service Employees Union as their collective bargaining
representative.
July 23, 2007--AFL-CIO
Workers of the Lake County Coroner's Office in Illinois have been certified as members of AFSCME. Drivers for Veolia Transportation in Denver, Colorado have voted for, and are now members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001.
July 21, 2007--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will now give these workers a voice on the job: At the Great Lakes Power Vac LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a provider of industrial vacuum services, workers voted 10-3 to join Local 200, workers at two independent cartage carriers delivering for DHL, E.D. Express, and Supreme Delivery Service in Allentown, Pennsylvania are now members of Local 773, in Ottawa, Ontario drivers for Central Taxi voted overwhelmingly to join Local 91, service technicians at the Minnesota Chemical Co. of St. Paul will be represented by Local 120, customer service reps and route audtors for Allied Waste in Pacheco, California voted to join Local 315, mechanics at Zipcar in Boston, Massachusetts voted unanimously for Local 25, drivers and dockworkers at Air Road Transportation in Indianapolis, Indiana now have a voice with Local 135, press and production workers at Lehigh Press in Pennsauken, New Jersey have decided to go with Local 14-M of the Graphic Communications Conference-IBT, six ammonia tankhaul drivers for Tanner Industries in Youngstown, Ohio have joined Local 377, drivers for First Student in Vernon, Connecticut are now represented by Local 671, in Ajax, Ontario warehouse workers at Pival International, Inc. chose Local 938, school bus drivers at three separate private transportation companies in Belleville, Ontario are now members of Local 91, emergency workers of Acushnet, Massachusetts have unanimously decided to go with Local 59 as have recycling truck drivers for Tomra, Inc. in Lakeville, employees at Southwest Licking School System in Pataskala, Ohio voted to go with Local 413, maintenance workers at the Durango Hills Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nevada have joined Local 995, bus drivers and monitors for First Student at three separate yards in Bangor, Maine voted to join Local 340, Ryder Truck Rental mechanics in Honolulu, Hawaii voted strongly in favor of Local 996, airport screeners for Garda of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia also voted strongly for Local 213, bus drivers for MV Transportation in Indianapolis, Indiana are now members of Local 135 through card-check, at the Childrens Hospital of Michigan in Wyandotte, patient management clerical associates voted to join Local 283, workers at GSSP Enterprises in Chicago, Illinois voted for Local 727.
June 06, 2007--AFL-CIO
Administrative, professional and supervisory staff at Rutgers University in New Jersey have signed cards to be represented by the Union of Rutgers Administrators, American Federation of Teachers. Card dealers at Bally's Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers.
June 03, 2007--Independent
Full and part-time security officers at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey have voted to join the International Union of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.
May 31, 2007--CTWC
Organizing victories for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters include aides, cooks, secretaries and custodians at Galena Community Unit School District No. 120 in Galena, Illinois that have joined Local 722, around 182 bus drivers at Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation in Evansville, Indiana are members of Local 215, bus drivers and mechanics for First Student in San Diego, California chose Local 542, and bus drivers, mechanics, and attendants for First Student in Piscataway, New Jersey chose Local 469. In Windom, Minnesota, meatpacking workers at PM Beef voted in favor of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1161. Approximately four thousand security officers in Los Angeles, California have decided to be represented by the Service Employees International Union, Security Officers United Local 2006. In Montreal, Quebec, distribution center workers at Nivel, Inc. and workers at the Marriott hotels have joined UNITE HERE through card-check.
May 08, 2007--AFL-CIO
Repair technicians at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland won a voice on the job with the International Association of Machinists District Lodge 4 and workers at Filtrona Extrusion Company in Yakima, Washington voted to join District Lodge 751. In Brampton, Ontario, workers at the Courtyard by Marriot are now represented by Lodge 2243, and employees of the Kingsway Arms Retirement Home in Clarington joined Lodge 901. In Jersey City, New Jersey, approximately 220 workers at Dow Jones Newswires have joined the Independent Association of Publishers Employees (an affiliate of the Newspaper Guild / Communication Workers of America and in Monmouth at AT&Ts Local Services customer service and maintenance center 91 workers are now members of CWA Local 1150. Installation and service workers for GE appliances in eastern Florida voted to join IUE-CWA Local 712. Workers with Association, Conventions, Trade Shows, Inc. voted to join International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 12. Mergers: Pilots and engineers, members of an independent union at Capital Cargo International Airlines in Orlando, Florida have voted to merge with the Air Line Pilots Association and over 1000 members of the independent union at Mittal steel mill in Weirton, West virginia voted to merge with the United Steel Workers.
April 27, 2007--CTWC
Cafeteria workers at California State University Monterey Bay have voted to join UNITE HERE Local 483 and approximately 60 employees at 74 State Street Hotel and Restaurant in Albany, New York are now members of Local 471 through card-check. Other workers recently becoming members of UNITE HERE are the remaining unrepresented workers at Buena Vista Palace hotel in Orlando, Florida, and Aramark food service workers at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus in Toronto, Ontario. The following have decided to be represented on the job by becoming members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Material handlers, truck drivers, and clerical workers at Logistics 2020 in Fairborn, Ohio voted to join Local 957, employees of Edis Laundry are now members of Local 901 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, poultry feed processing workers at Pilgrims Pride in Tuscumbia, Alabama voted in favor of Local 402, First Student school bus drivers, monitors, and mechanics in Wallkill, New York voted for Local 445, workers at SGS Automotive Services in Oshawa, Ontario now have a voice with Local 938, employees at the Suffield Board of Education in Suffield, Connecticut are members of Local 671, mechanics with Americold Logistics in Ontario, California joined Local 63 through card-check, workers at the Nash Finch grocery warehouse in Westville, Indiana are now members of Local 135, workers at Collier County Public School system in florida decided to join Local 79, mechanics and maintenance controllors at Champion Air in Minnesota chose Local 120, drivers and yardmen at Cedar Creek Lumber and supply in East St. Louis, Illinois chose Local 50, driver helpers wih National Distributing Company in Jessup, Maryland chose membership with Local 355, drivers and warehouse workers at Norge Building Supply in Totowa, New Jersey have joined Local 408 through card-check, workers at Emerald Performance Materials in Henry, Illinois voted overwhelmingly to join Local 627, drivers at SDS Logistics in Louisville, Kentucky are now members of Local 89, and cement mixer drivers at Cemex facilities in Californi have joined Local 150.
March 20, 2007--AFL-CIO
At the Caesars Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, table game dealers, keno and simulcast workers voted 572-128 to join the United Auto Workers. At Essex County College in New Jersey, 400 adjunct professors chose to be represented by the New Jersey Federation of Teachers/American Federation of Teachers. Workers including drivers, dispatchers, and customer service reps at Bend, Oregon Area Transit System are now members of the American Transport Workers Union Local 757. 10 workers at Penske Truck Leasing Co. in Plymouth, Michigan have joined the International Association of Machinists Local Lodge 698. At the Tulsa, Oklahoma International Airport, 39 security officers are now members of AFSCME Local 1180. Approximately 100 Oneida County, Wisconsin courthouse workers and 21 Crawford County sheriff's officers have voted to be represented by AFSCME Council 40. In Pennsylvania 95 certified nursing assistants at St. Luke's retirement home, 50 workers at the Somerset County Area Agency on Aging and 15 Somerset County sheriff deputies voted to join AFSCME Council 13. In the state of New York, 60 Westchester County Medical Center couriers now have a voice on the job with the Civil Service Employees Association / AFSCME Local 1000. Also 24 child care providers at Hunts Point Day Care and 10 workers at the AIDS advocacy housing group Tenant and Neighbors voted to join AFSCME District Council 1707. In New Shoreham, Rhode Island 45 city workers have joined AFSCME as have 30 parks department workers of Richmond, Indiana. Approximately 800 nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Southern California facilities have joined, through majority sign-up, the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.
March 08, 2007--CTWC
Workers at 1 King West, a well-known downtown Toronto condo-hotel, voted unanimously to join UNITE HERE Local 75. The following workers have chosen to have a voice on the job with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: At Roadway Express in Brooklyn, New York, 8 clerical workers voted to join Local 707 as have 60 drivers with Cardinal Health in Montgomery, around 165 drivers and monitors with First Student in Beaufort County, South Carolina are now members of Local 509, 55 drivers with Mid-States Express in Peru, Illinois joined Local 722, over 300 warehouse workers at Hudson's Bay Company Vancouver Logistics Centre in Delta, British Columbia have voted to be represented by Local 31, paratransit drivers at Advanced Power Transportation in the Bronx, New York have a voice at work with Local 854, in Indianapolis, Indiana, 11 workers at Trauth Dairy chose Local 135, and over 300 full and part-time sales associates with Levitz Furniture in New York and New Jersey overwhelmingly chose Local 810.
February 06, 2007--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have organized the following: 150 workers at Haas Blue Water Automotive plant in St. Clair, Michigan are members of Local 339 through card-check recognition, 37 workers at the USF Bestway terminal in Pomona, California have joined Local 63, 22 drivers at Angelica Textile Services in Turlock, California voted overwhelmingly to join Local 386, school bus drivers and aides employed by Laidlaw in New Orleans, Louisiana voted to unionize with Local 270, repair and warehouse workers at Praxair in Boston, Massachsetts have organized with Local 25, janitorial workers employed by American Building Maintenance in the Rochester, Washington School District joined Local 252, flower delivery drivers at Bill Dorn Company in Chicago, Illinois are now members of Local 703, bindery workers at Journeyman Press Inc. in Newburyport, Massachusetts voted unanimously to join GCC/IBT Local 3, school bus drivers and monitors for First Student in Pine Bush, New York have joined Local 445, school bus drivers, monitors and mechanics in Danville, Illinois are now members of Local 26, around 64 school bus drivers and mechanics with Student Transportation of America in the Uncasville, Connecticut area are now members of Local 493, milk and ice cream delivery drivers, transport drivers and warehouse workers at Trauth Dairy in Louisville, Kentucky have voted in favor of joining Local 89, by a vote of 296-0 officers of the Shelby County Sheriffs Association in Memphis, Tennessee voted to affiliate with Local 667, by a majority vote of bindery workers at Quebecor World in Versailles, Kentucky they now have a voice on the job with the Teamsters, press operators at the Los Angeles Times in California will now be represented by the Graphic Communications Conference/IBT.
January 19, 2007--AFL-CIO
Approximately 266 city workers in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma have a voice on the job with the Communication Workers of America Local 6012 and through majority sign-up 350 workers at the Cingular Wireless call center in Colorado are new members of Local 7702. At the TXU power company in Texas, over 400 workers have chosen to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. 82 workers at the Crown Cork and Seal Plant in Owatonna, Minnesota now have a workplace voice with the International Association of Machinists as does the 42 workers at Wexxar Packaging in Delta, British Columbia. At the Waterford Emergency Communications Center in Connecticut, dispatchers have voted to join AFSCME Council 4. On the island of Guam, 130 firefighters have chosen to become members of the Guam Federation of Teachers/American Federation of Teachers.
December 28, 2006--CTWC
The following workers have chosen to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: MedStar employees in Berwyn, Illinois voted to join Local 714, 5 workers of Port Henry Village in New York signed cards to join Local 294. In Pacifica, California drivers and mechanics at Coatside Scavenger Company have become members of Local 350, drivers and other workers for British Airways Authorities Inc. at the Indianapolis International Airport voted 50-3 to join Local 135, school bus drivers for First Student in Anchorage, Alaska have voted to be represented by Local 959, drivers and dockworkers at USF Bestway in Los Angeles signed cards to join Local 63, mechanics who service cooling and refrigeration systems in Puerto Rico have joined Local 901, drivers and dockworkers at USF Bestway in Albuquerque, New Mexico are now members of Local 492, milk delivery drivers for Dean's Food in Franklin Park, Illinois voted 18-1 to join Local 754, by a vote of 18-4 dispatchers and safety officers at Missouri State University have joined Local 245, salad processing workers at River Ranch Fresh Foods in California are now members of Local 890 by card check authorization, drivers at FedEx Home Delivery in two separate locations in Wilmington, Massachusetts, voted 24-8 to join Local 25, as have drivers at Praxair in Waltham, Mass., by a vote of 18-3.
December 14, 2006--AFL-CIO
40,000 child care workers in Michigan have formed a union with AFSCME and the United Auto Workers whch will be called the Child Care Providers Together Michigan. In Wisconsin approximately 7,000 licensed and certified child care providers are now represented by the Child Care Providers Together / AFSCME. Also, 38 workers at the U.S. Parole Commission in Washington, D.C. are now members of AFSCME Council 26. 579 workers employed by Eagle Group and provide maintenance and logistical support at Fort Stewart, Georgia have joined the International Association of Machinists. County corrections employees in Santa Fe County, New Mexico voted to join the Communication Workers of America Local 7911 and ushers and assistant head ushers at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center joined Local 1037. Around 60 workers at Anisa Productions in Los Angeles, California will be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
December 06, 2006--Independent
Workers at the Committee on Temporary Shelter, Inc. in Burlington, Vermont, voted 32 to 2 to become members of the United Electrical Workers Local 221.
November 30, 2006--CTWC
A neutral arbitrator certified that a majority of approximately 250 Workers at Three Mile Canyon Farms in California have signed union authorization cards to be represented by the United Farm Workers of America. PBX Telephone operators at Hilton, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 638. Police officers in Raleigh, North Carolina by a vote of 113 to 2, have chosen to join Teamsters Local 391.
November 02, 2006--AFL-CIO
Over 400 city employees in Lawton, Oklahoma, are now members of AFSCME after a drawn-out legal battle. Other AFSCME wins include in the state of Illinois, approximately 650 state workers, Christian County probation officers, Kankakee County health department nurses and other workers, Cook County Sheriff's correctional lieutenants, nurses and other health workers at the Normal campus of the Illinois State University. Over 360 correctional officers in Lexington, Kentucky have voted to join the Communication Workers of America. Also, deputy sheriffs that work as court bailiffs in Clark County, Nevada have chosen to join the CWA. In New Jersey the CWA now represents more than 500 state workers that were previously ineligible to unionize. Approximately 140 workers that make electrical equipment at Milbank in Concordia, Missouri have voted to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Workers at New Process New Steel in Butler, Indiana are now members of the International Association of Machinists. Other workers joining the IAM are stock clerks at U.S.Airways/America West, baggage handlers at BBH Services at Toronto International airport, and workers at Trans-Sol Aviation Services in Quebec. Members of an independent union at Valero Energy in San Nicolas, Aruba have affiliated with the United Steel Workers.
October 29, 2006--CTWC
In California at the Santa Barbara News-Press, newsroom employees have voted to be represented by the Graphics Communications Conference / International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Other Teamster organizing victories include, sanitation workers of Nesquehoning Borough in Pennsylvania have voted to join Local 773, mechanics at First Student in Baltimore, Maryland voted for Local 570, and workers at AmeriCold Logistics warehouses in the Atlanta, Georgia area have voted to join Local 528. Workers at Phillips Van Heusen in Brinkley, Arkansa, are now represented by UNITE HERE Southwest Region Joint Board.
September 21, 2006--CTWC
In the State of Delaware approximately two-hundred family court workers are now members of Local 27 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. In Rockford, Illinois, office workers at Yellow Freight have voted to join Teamsters Local 325 and truck drivers, warehousemen, and load builders at Stock Building Supply in Round Lake Park, Illinois will be reprsented by Teamsters Local 301.
September 08, 2006--Independent
In an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, registered nurses at Fremont-Rideout Health Group in Yuba County, California, have voted to join the California Nurses Association.
September 08, 2006--CTWC
Nurses at Bonner General Hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho have chosen the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 690 as their representative. Workers at a CVS store in Grosse Point, Michigan have voted to join Local 876 of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
August 15, 2006--AFL-CIO
More than 2,200 locked-out workers at AK Steel Corp. in Middletown, Ohio, are now members of the International Association of Machinists following a recent election. The workers, members of the Armco Employees Independent Federation, voted to affiliate with the IAM. In Long Beach, Califfornia, 409 city workers—including librarians, physicians, nurses and analysts—joined IAM District 947. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, 35 flight simulator technicians at Lockheed Martin voted to join IAM, as did four flight technicians at DynCorp International in San Diego and 10 workers at the Bechtel Bettis Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. At Mercy Hospital in Moose Lake, Minnesota, 29 licensed practical nurses voted to join AFSCME Council 29. Twenty-four child-care workers at Hunts Point, New York Day Care voted to join AFSCME District Council 1707. In Crawford County, Iowa., 23 road workers signed up with AFSCME Council 61, and 19 municipal workers in Boardman Township, Ohio, voted to join AFSCME Council 8. In the third consecutive win for workers at auto glass manufacturer PPG Industries Inc., 100 workers at the company’s plant in O’Fallon, Missouri voted to join the United Auto Workers. The 44-member Rochester, New Hampshire Police Union voted unanimously to join the New England Police Benevolent Association / International Union of Police Associations. In Lovington, New Mexico, 38 Lea County detention officers voted to join IUPA.
August 14, 2006--CTWC
In Rockingham County, New Hampshire, fifteen deputy sheriffs have voted to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 633. Office clerical workers a SPE Utility Contractors LLC in Port Huron, Michigan, have voted to become members of Teamsters Local 339. In two recent organizing wins in Califonia, workers at Pacific Coast Industries in Tracy and truck drivers at Tulare Transport in Stockton have voted to join Teamsters Local 439.
August 07, 2006--AFL-CIO
More than 7,000 New Jersey home child care workers officially won union representation last week, when Gov. Jon Corzine (D) signed an executive order granting the workers union bargaining rights. They will become members of the Child Care Workers Union, a joint effort by AFSCME and the Communication Workers of America.
July 24, 2006--AFL-CIO
Following a two-year legal battle, some 280 city employees in Enid, Oklahoma became the first group of workers to win their union voice with AFSCMEunder a new state law allowing municipal workers in cities of more than 35,000 residents to join unions. In Rhode Island, 45 employees of the town of New Shoreham recently voted to join AFSCME Council 94. The International Association of Machinists union reports a trio of worker wins: In Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, some 330 workers at Defense by Defense Support Services LLC voted to join IAM District Lodge 1. The workers maintain weapon systems for the Department of Defense. The 121 employees of Jacobs Sverdrup who work at the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., cast their votes for IAM District 73. At Auto Truck Transport in Cleveland, Ohio, 10 clerical workers voted to join IAM.
July 14, 2006--AFL-CIO
In another victory for workers seeking a voice at work with Communication Workers of America, 140 members of the Professional Staff Association at the Boston Public Library voted to affiliate with CWA. In Fowlerville, Michigan, 71 workers at the Meridian Automotive plant joined IUE-CWA, the union’s industrial division. In Paducah, Kentucky, 54 workers at DirectTECH SW voted to join CWA Local 6320. Some 350 workers at PPG Industries’ Evansville, Indiana plant voted to join the United Auto Workers. The Indiana production and maintenance workers’ June 28 vote came just days after PPG auto glass workers at the Crestline, Ohio, plant chose the UAW. Bakery department workers at Houston, Texas Fiesta Mart chain of grocery stores recently voted to join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers. About 100 pilots at CanJet Airlines, a regional airline in eastern Canada, voted to join the Air Line Pilots Association. Forty workers at AHNTECH at Fort Stewart, Georgia won International Association of Machinists representation after the company voluntarily recognized their choice to join the union after they signed recognition cards. The workers maintain the fort’s live firing ranges. In Southwestern Illinois, 29 workers at four auto dealerships and at Scott Air Force base joined IAM in recent organizing wins.
July 06, 2006--CTWC
Dump truck drivers at T.S. Trucking in Louisville, Kentucky have voted to become members of the Teamsters Local 89. Workers employed by Hospital Parking Management in the Detroit, Michigan area, voted to join Teamsters Local 283. The Service Employees International Union has been certified as the bargaining agent for the janitors that toil at the University of Miami, Florida.
June 26, 2006--AFL-CIO
At Unity Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, 460 registered nurses chose the Minnesota Nurses Association. The election capped a six-month campaign conducted under a neutrality agreement between the hospital and the MNA that allowed the nurses to make their choice of union representation with the harassment and intimidation many workers face in organizing drives. MNA is a member of the American Nurses Association and United American Nurses. In Crestline, Ohio, workers at PPG Industries Inc. voted to join the United Auto Workers. The 260 new union members are production and maintenance workers at the plant, which produces glass for several automakers. Some 100 satellite TV installers in the Tampa, Florida area voted to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The workers are the first group of an estimated 1,000 installers at MasTec fighting to a win a voice at work. Also, a dozen sales workers at Qwest Communications in Montana joined IBEW when the company voluntarily recognized their choice to join a union. Several groups of workers recently voted to join the International Association of Machinists, including 24 aircraft technicians at DTS Aviation Services in Fort Worth, Texas; 13 municipal water, sewer and road repair workers in Runnemede, New Jersey; and seven production workers at BEKO Membrane Technology in Bend, Oregon who make air compressor filters. North of the border, 48 welders, technicians, pipe assemblers and other workers at Howard Marteen Co. in Pickering, Ontario, voted for IAM representation. In Pueblo, Colorado 31 drivers for the Senior Resource Development Agency voted to join the Amalgamated Transit Union. The drivers provide transportation for area seniors on special lift buses and also provide rural transportation.
June 16, 2006--Independent
Workers at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley, California voted 22-2 to be represented by the Industrial Workers of the World.
June 05, 2006--AFL-CIO
In the Gadsden, New Mexico School District, nearly 1,900 teachers and paraprofessionals won American Federation of Teachers representation. 179 adjunct faculty members at the Northern New Mexico Community College in Espanola won a voice with AFT following an election. More than 1,300 workers—from clerical and maintenance to food service workers—at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces won a voice at work with AFSCME after an election….AFSCME also was the choice for 25 workers in southern Virginia at the state Motor Vehicle and Alcohol and Beverage Control Department locations. More than 1,100 registered pharmacists at Walgreen pharmacies in the Chicago, Illinois area have voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the United Steel Workers. In Washington workers at RTI Tradco voted to join International Associaion of Machinists District 837. The 155 workers fabricate and machine metals used primarily in aerospace products….In Seattle, 134 workers at Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. won a voice at work with IAM District 160. Air Canada administrative and technical support workers voted to join IAM District 140. The 372 employees work at various Air Canada facilities.
June 04, 2006--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have recently organized the followng workers: Road crew and secretarial employees of Pocono Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania are now members of Local 773. Workers that perform maintenance on bus shelters and newsstands in Chicago, Illinois and employed by JCDecaux, have voted to Join Local 731. In Franklin Park, Illinois, drivers at O'Brien Recycling have also voted to join Local 731. Operating employees of the Huron and Eastern Railroad in Michigan have voted to become members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, which is a division of the Teamsters Rail Division.
May 18, 2006--CTWC
Workers at Bradco Supply, a building materials distributor, located in Stoughton, Massachusetts, have voted to join the Teamsters Local 379. Salespeople at Don Massey Cadillac in Plymouth, Michigan have voted to join Teamsters Local 283.
May 08, 2006--AFL-CIO
In Maryland, the 1,300 personal home care workers in Baltimore and Montgomery counties who provide in-home care and assistance to seniors, people with disabilities and others won bargaining rights through majority sign-up. Under majority sign-up, workers win their union voice and rights when a majority sign authorization cards. The new AFSCME members in Maryland are the latest winners in the union's Maryland Homecare Campaign. Meanwhile in Franklin County, Ohio, 870 family child care providers joined Child Care Providers Together / AFSCME, after the county commission recognized their majority sign-up cards. They join the 1,400 in-home child care providers who have signed up with AFSCME in Lucas and Cuyahoga counties recently. Theater workers in Akron, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia and Toronto, Ontario, Canada; chose the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees recently. At the University of Akron, costume shop workers and theater technicians are now members of IATSE Local 48, while hair and make up workers at the Fox Theater in Atlanta won a voice with Local 798. The new Canadian members are the stage employees at the Isabel Bader Theater in Toronto who are now part of Local 58. In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 74 workers who assemble concrete pumping trucks at Concord Concrete Pumps voted to join the International Association of Machinists.
May 01, 2006--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have organized the workers at Pacific Rail Services, located in Memphis, Tennessee. They are now members of Local 667. Also, hotel shuttle drivers of Penauille Servisair at the Los Angeles airport will be represented by Local 986.
April 17, 2006--AFL-CIO
At Fort Benning, Georgia 230 workers employed by ITT, a contractor at the U.S. Army base, voted to join the Columbus (Ga.) Metal Trades Council. Eighty small arms repair technicians are new members of the International Association of Machinists, while the remaining skilled trades workers are now members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Operating Engineers and Sheet Metal Workers. In Iowa, Michigan and Texas, 166 Cingular Wireless technicians and retail sales associates chose to join the Communication Workers of America. In Texas, 66 technicians joined several CWA locals as did 13 Iowa technicians. In Michigan, 87 retail sales associates are now CWA members. In New Jersey, 129 workers at the Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency chose to join the Communication Workers of America under the state’s majority sign-up law that unions mobilized to win last year. In Hamden, Connecticut 104 police officers voted to join AFSCME Council 15. Also, 14 Head Start workers at the Northside Early Childhood Center in Manhattan, New Yorkvoted to join AFSCME District Council 14, and 12 workers at the Cedarberg, Wisconsin wastewater treatment plant voted for AFSCME Local 108. More than 100 workers at bakeries from New Jersey to Oregon voted to join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers. In New York, workers at Gertel Uptown Bake Shop in Manhattan, Reisman Wholesale Bakery in Brooklyn and Zomick’s Wholesale Baking in Cedarhurst voted to join BCTGM Local 3. In Ohio, employees at Assad’s Bakery in Cleveland, La Puma Fine Bakeries in Lyndhurst and Reoder’s Market Bakery in Chardon voted for representation by BCTGM Local 19. Warehouse workers and drivers at Pumpernickel Express in Montville, N.J., voted to join BCTGM Local 102. Driver sales workers at Kraft-Nabisco in Richmond and Chesapeake, Virginia joined BCTGM Local 358. Also, workers at Richmond Baking in McMinnville, Oregon voted to join BCTGM. Thirty-five workers at Royal Oak Ford, a major auto dealership in the Detroit, Michigan area voted to join the United Auto Workers.
April 06, 2006--CTWC
Workers at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii have voted to join UNITE HERE Local 5
March 22, 2006--AFL-CIO
Corrections officers at Puerto Rico’s 456 correctional facilities voted to join Alianza Correccional Unida (ACU) / (SPU) / AFSCME Council 95. The election results were announced March 14, nearly four years after the workers initially voted to join ACU/SPU/AFSCME. This time around, workers voted by 3-to-1 margin for a voice at work. In Santa Rosa, Fla., 534 white-collar educational support workers in the county voted to join the Santa Rosa Professional Educators Local 7455. SRPE is part of the Florida Education Association, which is the merged American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association state teachers’ union. Some 200 technicians with Bechtel Bettis at the Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho Fall, Idaho, voted to join the International Association of Machinists. With a 37–4 vote to join the United Professions of Vermont/American Fderation of Teachers, the academic staffers at Vermont College in Montpelier sent a message that they want to be heard by the school’s management.
March 20, 2006--CTWC
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters now represent pilots at the Raytheon owned Flight Options Airline and they are members of Ohio-based Local 1108--Counter sales representatives and courtesy bus drivers at Hertz in Charlotte, North Carolina airport have elected to join IBT Local 71--Stock clerks at Denver based Frontier Airlines have voted to be represented by IBT Local 916--Workers at Niagara Independent Media located in New York are members of IBT Local 264 after the company voluntarily recognized the workers choice--Bus operators and maintenance at Pace Northwest in Des Plaines, Iowa have elected the IBT as their new union
March 13, 2006--AFL-CIO
Professors and instructors at Western Washington University in Bellingham voted to join the United Faculty of Washington State / American Federation of Teachers / National Education Association. fied in late February. Sixty-six fire and police communications officers for the City of Toledo, Ohio voted to join AFCSME Council 8 recently. At the Cheshire, Connecticut Public Library, 14 workers won a union voice with AFSCME Council 14. In Bronx, New York 12 custodial workers at a new branch of the Bronx Public Library won voluntary recognition from One Source, a private contractor. They are now members of District Council 37. Fifty truck drivers at Pumpernickel Express in Windsor, Conn., not only gained representation with the International Association of Machinists under a voluntary agreement between the union and the company. Also, 35 woodworkers and shipping and receiving personnel at Akima Corp. at the Cherry Point military installation in North Carolina voted to join IAM District 110. The workers package and preserve aircraft parts for the Navy and Marine Corps. Seven bombing range technicians for Arcata Associates at a Navy bombing range attached to the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, voted to join IAM District 112. Seven office and clerical workers for the Dade County, Florida Association of Fire Fighters Local 1403 voted to join IAM District Lodge 166. Workers at Matthews Ford near Toledo, Ohio, voted to join the United Auto Workers. The 35-person bargaining unit includes auto technicians, service and repair workers, auto body workers and porters.
February 17, 2006--CTWC
The following workers have gained a voice on the job with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters--Maintenance of way workers with the South Kansas Oklahoma Railroad--Police officers with the Metro Nashville, Tennessee force are now members of Local 327--Shuttle drivers and spotters that work under contract at Proctor and Gamble have voted to join Local 600--Deputy sheriffs, dispatchers, and jailers at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are now members of Local 238--Drivers and a mechanic at Linde Gas in Indiana have voted to be represented by Local 135.
February 14, 2006--AFL-CIO
Ninety workers at the Marion County, West Virginia Senior Citizens Inc. voted to join the United Steelworkers Workers recently. More than 200 workers nationwide recently won a voice with American Federation of Teachers. In the Cuba, New Mexico Independent School District, 125 teachers and paraprofessionals voted to join AFT, as did 42 paraprofessionals of the Barnstead, New Hampshire Educational Support Team. Also, 28 teachers at the Western New York Maritime Charter School in Buffalo won recognition through majority sign-up, in which the employer agrees to recognize the workers' choice when a majority signs authorization cards. In Helena, Montana six pharmacy technicians and clerks at Western Snyders Pharmacy voted for AFT representation. In New York City approximately 1,200 workers at Lifespire, Inc., a human services agency, used the card check procedure to become members of the Civil Service Employees Association/AFSCME Local 1000.
February 06, 2006--AFL-CIO
The crew of a low-budget movie production slated for Internet release won a voice at work when the production company signed an agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees last month. As soon as Boston Children's Hospital bought a nonunion medical center in Waltham, Massachusetts, members of the Electrical Workers joined with the Area Building and Construction Trades Council to assist the Waltham maintenance workers in forming a union. On Dec. 15, the eight maintenance workers voted to join International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103.
February 01, 2006--AFL-CIO
In Illinois some 248 clerical, technical and professional workers at the state Toll Highway Authority and 154 accountant supervisors, staff development specialists and public information coordinators in other departments joined AFSCME Council 31 recently. In North Dakota, 100 correctional workers joined Council 59 on Jan. 1. Some 122 technicians, engineers, trainers and warehouse workers at RCN, a Boston-based telecom firm, recently voted to join Utility Workers Local 369. Hundreds of electrical workers in Arizona and Texas will earn union pay and benefits the next time they're on the job, thanks to new contracts signed between eight contractors and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 640 in Phoenix, Arizona and another contractor with Local 1015 in Weslaco, Texas.
January 23, 2006--AFL-CIO
Forty-seven workers at the Central Maine Power Co., voted Jan. 13 to join International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1837. Projectionists for the Toronto International Film Festival voted to join International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 173. The 28 projectionists voted in September, but the ballots weren't counted until Jan. 3 because festival management filed election challenges that were settled the same day.
January 17, 2006--AFL-CIO
The 310 registered nurses at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon, voted Jan. 11 to join the Oregon Nurses Association / United American Nurses. Nearly 100 nurses, maintenance and service workers at Knife River Care Center in Beulah, North Dakota, a community-run elder care facility, voted to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers recently. Also 20 workers at N.E.W. Electric in Gillette, Wyoming and four workers at Saunders Electrical Construction in Cleveland, Ohio chose IBEW.
January 09, 2006--AFL-CIO
More than 2,400 Cingular Wireless workers became the most recent to join Communication Workers of America in late December and early January. The new CWA members include 1,288 Orlando, Florida call center workers; 400 retail sales workers at several Pennsylvania locations; 158 sales and customer service workers in Hawaii; 151 retail sales reps in Colorado; 51 retail sales workers in Iowa; and 14 New Mexico sales workers. More than 400 workers in four states voted to join AFSCME recently. In Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 252 nurses, nursing aides and dietary, laundry and clerical workers at Centre Crest Nursing Home voted to join AFSCME Council 13. In Indianapolis, Indiana 111 workers at Wishard Memorial Hospital voted to join AFSCME Local 2065. Also, 31 municipal workers in Two Rivers, Wisconsin and eight employees of the Village of Hustisford voted to join AFSCME Council 40. Twenty-six vocational supervisors in Washington State's Department of Social and Health Services chose AFSCME Council 28. Part-time and adjunct faculty members at Syracuse New York University voted to join Adjuncts United, an affiliate of New York State United Teachers/American Federation of Teachers. Along with part-time faculty members, the 600 teachers include adjunct faculty--professionals outside of academia who teach classes in their fields of expertise. In Hebron, Ohio, 12 automotive technicians at Center City International Trucks joined International Association of Machinists Local 1471.
December 22, 2005--CTWC
Workers at Sleep Country distribution center, a speciality retailer of mattresses in Toronto, Ontario have voted to be represented by UNITE HERE.
December 19, 2005--AFL-CIO
In New York, 60 food service workers at Cobleskill Auxiliary Services voted to join Civil Service Employees Association/AFSCME. In Tennessee, 278 Shelby County Head Start workers voted to join AFSCME Local 1733 and in Washington, 26 vocational rehabilitation supervisors at the state Department of Social and Health Services signed on with AFSCME Council 28. Some 1,000 registered nurses at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis won a voice at work with the Minnesota Nurses Association / United American Nurses. At Usinatech in Melbourne, Quebec, Canada, 123 workers joined International Association of Machinists Local Lodge 922 recently.
December 12, 2005--AFL-CIO
In Newark, Ohio, 51 Licking County Child Support Enforcement Agency workers voted Dec. 6 to join AFSCME Local 2963. Automotive mechanics, service employees and parts workers at dealerships in Connecticut and Ohio voted recently to join the International Association of Machinists. At Bob Townsend Colerain Ford in Cincinnati, Ohio 23 workers voted to join IAM Local 804 and seven workers at County Line BMW Inc. in Watertown, Connecticut also voted to join IAM.
December 05, 2005--AFL-CIO
More than 2,000 workers at Cingular Wireless operations in five states joined the Communication Workers of America last month. In Paramus, New Jersey 872 call center workers joined Local 1101, and 788 retail sales associates at Cingular stores in Texas gained representation with several local unions. Another 195 retail sales workers at Oregon stores chose the union as did 129 Cerritos, California call center workers and 58 retail sales workers at Indiana Cingular stores. Some 500 workers at Church & Dwight Co. in Richmond, Virginia won a voice in the workplace when they voted Nov. 23 to join the International Association of Machinists.
November 30, 2005--CTWC
Approximately 4,700 janitors that toil in the office buildings within the City of Houston, Texas, have signed authorization cards joining the Service Employees International Union. Workers at the Petaluma Sheraton hotel in California, have voted to join UNITE HERE.
November 28, 2005--AFL-CIO
The International Association of Machinists welcomed 75 new members recently, including 70 workers at the Purewood Inc. plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who voted for the union Oct. 17. The new Machinists manufacture wood products. Five mechanics at the Spitzer Cadillac car dealership in Cleveland, Ohio also voted for IAM.
November 21, 2005--AFL-CIO
In Bothell, Washington 934 Cingular call center workers joined the Communications Workers of America through a majority sign-up Nov. 4. They will be represented by WashTech/CWA Local 37083 in Seattle. Also, 113 Delaware State Police civilian employees overwhelmingly voted to join CWA Local 1301. Twenty-eight transportation workers at Pace University voted to join American Federation of Teachers Oct. 20. Some 680 school principals, assistant principals and supervisors joined the American Federation of School Administrators in the past year, giving the union a 5 percent boost in membership. The new members formed five new locals: Educadores Puertorriquen en Accion / AFSA Local 105 in
Puerto Rico, Texas School Administrators Network/Local 33, Oak Park, Michigan Department Chairs Association / Local 104, Queen Anne's County, Maryland Administrators and Supervisors Association Local 102 and Thompson Connecticut Association of School Administrators/Local 106.
November 21, 2005--CTWC
In the state of Washington, approximately 10,000 child care providers voted to join Local 925 of the Service Employees International Union.
November 14, 2005--AFL-CIO
Some 80 emergency 911 operators in Tulsa, Oklahoma voted last month to join AFSCME Local 1180. Also, 75 bus drivers for the Portage (Ohio) Area Regional Transit Authority voted for the Ohio Association of Public School Employees / AFSCME Local 4 and 20 cafeteria workers in the Amherst-Pelham Massachusetts Regional Schools chose AFSCME Council 93. Thirty film crew workers at Picture Vision Pictures, in Nashville, Tennessee won representation with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 492 last month. Also, 14 wardrobe technicians at the Pittsburgh Public Theater won recognition with Local 787.
November 09, 2005--CTWC
On October 18, the bargaining unit was certified for workers of the Public Works Department of Yelm, Washington and are now members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 252, and on September 28, workers at Lithia Motors car dealership in Sparks, Nevada, voted to join Local 533. Also, on September 27, distribution drivers at Palmer Food Services in Rochester, New York voted to join Local 118.
November 07, 2005--AFL-CIO
The International Association of Machinistswelcomed a total of 116 new members recently, including 73 employees of World Yacht in New York City who voted for District Lodge 15. A group of 31 mine workers at Feldspar Corp. in Edgar, Florida voted for the union as did 12 flight simulator operators with L-3 Communications at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Nearly 100 workers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's operations office voted for a voice on the job through AFSCME Council 26. The office provides facilities management, building maintenance and operation, warehousing, delivery, printing and other services for agencies of the department. The 28 full-and part-time shuttle bus drivers at Pace University in New York City voted Oct. 20 for the Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel / American Federation of Teachers.
October 31, 2005--AFL-CIO
Fourteen line clearance tree trimmers who work for Asplundh Tree Expert Co. in Rockwood, Tennessee are bargaining for their first contract after voting for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
October 24, 2005--AFL-CIO
Some 1,800 workers at several Cingular Wireless call centers and retail stores won union representation with the Communication Workers of America in the last two weeks. In California, 1,600 workers at three call centers and 84 retail sales associates at several Nevada sites won a voice at work Oct. 13 when their choice of CWA representation was certified. In Utah, 88 Cingular retail sales workers chose CWA. More than 900 workers in Washington State recently won a voice at work with the Office and Professional Employees International Union. At Senior Life Resources in Kennewick, 425 home care workers voted to join OPEIU. In Vancouver, 150 home care workers at CDM Services joined OPEIU after an election win, as did 200 employees at Community Health Center La Clinica, which operates several health centers in the state. Also, 200 workers at Visiting Nurse Personal Services have a voice at work with OPEIU after a majority signed authorization cards indicating they wanted to join the union and the employer recognized their choice. LB&B Corp. employees working under a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract with the U.S. Navy voted overwhelmingly Oct. 19 to join International Union of Operating Engineers Local 99. Thirty-two clerical and professional employees of the Illinois Community College Board won a union with the Illinois Federation of Teachers after signing union authorization cards and gaining recognition.
October 17, 2005--AFL-CIO
Some 600 clerical employees at the Hennepin County, Minnesota Medical Center formed a union with AFSCME Council 5. With the aid of Spanish union members, the 40 U.S. journalists at the Spanish news agency EFE voted Sept. 29 for The Newspaper Guild-Communication Workers of America. Based in Miami, EFE covers news for a Spanish audience from bureaus in Miami, its U.S. home base, as well as Washington, D.C., and New York City. Some 30 workers at the Kaluakoi golf course on the Hawaiian island of Molokai joined the International Longshore and Warehouse Union recently through a majority sign-up, in which the employer agreed to recognize the union when a majority of workers signed union authorization cards. Employees of the Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic network voted almost unanimously Sept. 20-21 to join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The 44 new union members include such free-lance technicians as technical directors, camera operators, video operators, audio technicians and others.
October 11, 2005--AFL-CIO
Another 604 former AT&T Wireless workers, now working for Cingular, chose to become part of a surge of high-tech, white-collar workers joining Communication Workers of America. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania a large majority of the 452 employees at the Cingular call center signed authorization cards to join Local 13500. In Arizona, some 152 retail sales associates throughout the state gained a voice with locals 7019 and 7026.
October 03, 2005--AFL-CIO
Nearly 5,000 registered and certified child care workers throughout Oregon won AFSCME representation Sept. 23 when Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed an executive order recognizing the workers' choice. Three more groups of former AT&T workers now employed by Cingular Wireless chose to join the Communication Workers of America recently. In New Jersey, 185 retail sales associates throughout the state signed union authorization cards to join CWA locals 1101, 1022 and 1023. In New Hampshire, 34 retail sales associates at several locations won a union voice with CWA Local 1400; and 14 network technicians in Wisconsin joined CWA Local 4603. Workers at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California voted 3-to-1 to join the International Association of Machinists recently. The 97 workers maintain and repair training vehicles for the U.S. military and are employed by L-3 Vertex Aerospace, a group of 31 miners employed by Feldspar Corp.'s Edgar, Florida mine--the state's oldest continually operated mine--voted recently to join IAM Local Lodge 1098. At Ft. Rucker, Alabama 12 flight simulator operators with L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Corp. voted to join IAM District 12; and five airframe and maintenance technicians at DynCorp.'s Cherry Hill, North Carolina plant voted for IAM District 110. In Des Moines, Iowa, 23 electricians at Ace Electric recently won a voice at work with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 347.
September 26, 2005--AFL-CIO
More than 2,000 poultry workers at several Foster Farms' facilities in California won a voice at work with the International Association of Machinists Sept. 16. Some 140 Cingular Wireless retail sales workers around Maryland joined Communication Workers of America Local 2017. In Wisconsin, 42 Jackson County RNs, LPNs and other health care workers voted to join AFSCME Council 40 and 11 workers at the Muskingum County Water Department in Ohio voted to join Council 8.
September 19, 2005--AFL-CIO
More than 800 Cingular workers, former AT&T Wireless employees, at two call centers in Greensboro, North Carolina won a voice at work Sept. 9 with the Communication Workers of America Local 3607, and all 41 assistant prosecutors in the Mercer County prosecutor's office won a union voice with CWA Local 1034.
September 12, 2005--AFL-CIO
More than 2,000 Cingular Wireless workers in several cities recently won a voice at work with the Communication Workers of America, they include 1,134 who chose CWA Local 6016 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 444 who joined CWA Local 7901 in Portland, Oregon, 418 in Lebanon, Virginia who gained representation with CWA Local 2204 and 37 network technicians throughout Virginia who are now members of CWA Local 2201. In Pajaro Valley, California 75 Migrant Program Head Start staffers won a voice at work with American Federation of Teachers last month when the school district recognized their choice to join a union. The United Steelworkers and the National Pharmacists Association (NPhA) announced Sept. 6 they are forming a joint Pharmacists Council.
August 30, 2005--CTWC
At the Haven Health Center of Windham, Connecticut, housekeeping, laundry, kitchen workers and the certified nurses assistants voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 493
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