PUBLIC WORKERS GAIN UNION—In Doña Ana County, N.M., nearly 200 juvenile/adult officers and blue-collar workers at the county jail formed unions with AFSCME Council 18. In Bridgeport, Conn., 35 supervisors from the housing authority chose Council 4 through a majority sign-up, in which workers win their union when a majority verifies the desire to join a union by signing authorization cards. In Chester, Deep River, Essex and Regional School District 4 in Connecticut, the majority of 24 school workers including custodians, secretaries, network technicians and registered nurses voted to join Council 4.
A VOICE AT DUANE READE—Some 77 workers recently voted for a voice at work with the United Food and Commercial Workers. In New York City, 21 employees at two Duane Reade stores voted overwhelmingly for a voice with Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW. Fifty-six employees at the Spring Lake Nursing Home in Orlando, Fla., voted for UFCW Local 1625 on Sept. 22.
GETTING ON THE UNION BUS—More than 70 school bus drivers employed by Laidlaw in Rhinebeck and Catskill, N.Y., voted to join SEIU Local 200United earlier this fall.
PORT CAPTAINS FINALLY GAIN PACT—After two years of litigation, the Longshoremen reached a three-year contract with China Ocean Shipping Co. North America, based in Secaucus, N.J., covering the company’s port captains. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in April that port captains, who plan stowage of cargoes aboard vessels and perform other operations, are rank-and-file professional workers and therefore eligible to form a union. Under the pact, they will receive guaranteed annual pay increases, premium pay for the round-the-clock hours they are required to be available and overtime pay for after-hours stowing and other duties.
CONTINENTAL CARBON LOCKOUT ENDS—The three-and-a-half year lockout of workers at Continental Carbon’s plant in Ponca City, Okla., ended after members of PACE International Union ratified a new five-year contract Dec. 2. “We are very pleased the union objectives were achieved and our locked-out members will be returning to their jobs with a good union contract,” said union President Boyd Young. Workers launched an extensive campaign against the company after the May 8, 2001, lockout. The Steelworkers and the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions joined in the campaign.
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