Local Business News: Presentation by employment-law specialist
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Cathleen P. Welsh, an attorney at Lenhart Obenshain, will be the guest lunch program speaker for the Shenandoah Valley Society for Human Resource Management at Bridgewater Retirement Community, Alexander Mack Conference Rooms A&B, on Tuesday, April 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Waynesboro Dems to meet, discuss EFCA
The Waynesboro Democratic Committee meeting set for Wednesday night will feature a forum on the Employee Free Choice Act led by a local labor organizer.
Jody Grogan, a retired local schoolteacher who is helping the Service Employees International Union with its Virginia Change That Works labor advocacy program, is the special guest at this month’s committee meeting, which will take place Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Meeting Room A at the Waynesboro Public Libary. Continue reading “Waynesboro Dems to meet, discuss EFCA” »
A real free choice
George Waksmunski has seen it happen. “Workers are terrorized when they attempt to organize a union,” said Waksmunski, the national representative for UE Local 123 in Verona. “Bosses tell them from day one, You’re going to lose your job, the plant’s going to close, the union’s going to go on strike, you’ll get nothing, we won’t negotiate,” Waksmunski said. Continue reading “A real free choice” »
Letter | Natalie Grossman
As corporations beg for public tax dollars, workers’ wages have remained stagnant. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living. Working people need a living wage in order to pay for quality education for their children, health care, retirement savings, and rising gas prices. Continue reading “Letter | Natalie Grossman” »
Letter to the Editor | Annie Morris
As a current college student who will be entering the job market within the next few years, my lifestyle has been tremendously affected by the current economic recession. We as Virginians have a duty to help those entering the work force and others stuck in right-to-work states — we have finally been provided with the tools to accomplish this. The Employee Free Choice Act assists in developing strategies to help all citizens deal with the weak economic conditions through its ability to repress corporate intimidation. Today’s labor laws don’t do enough to protect workers. Continue reading “Letter to the Editor | Annie Morris” »
The anti-business Chamber
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce … anti-business? Yes. it’s true.
“On March 9-10, the Virginia Chamber of Commerce will take a delegation of Virginia business leaders to Washington D.C. to participate in the ‘Workforce Freedom Airlift,’ an anti-Card Check campaign sponsored by the U.S. Chamber,” began the propaganda piece in my e-mail in-box this morning. Continue reading “The anti-business Chamber” »
Spinning irony
“This legislation is monumental,” Ben Carter, the president of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a partisan-tinged letter to the editor published in The News Virginian last week, in which he recited the GOP talking points on the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation making its way through Congress that would put into effect safeguards for people who eschew fancy suits for blue collars and might want to organize to try to improve their pay and benefits. Continue reading “Spinning irony” »
Matt Caterine | Support Employee Free Choice
On Nov. 4, the people of Virginia sent a loud and clear message to elected officials in Congress: they want leadership that will bring about real change in Washington. Despite misleading attacks from anti-worker special interests, voters elected Mark Warner to work with a pro-worker majority in Congress and a pro-worker president to take a critical step toward reinvigorating the middle class and turning around our crumbling economy. Continue reading “Matt Caterine | Support Employee Free Choice” »
Letter | Jon Liss
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