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CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO HOW AND WHY PEOPLE FORM UNIONS Union members earn more money, have better benefits, are more productive and have greater job security than nonunion workers. Get the details about this "union advantage," plus a look at who belongs to unions. Voice@Work: Freedom to choose a union Most Americans believe that working people should have the freedom to make their own decision about whether to join a union. But employers routinely harass and intimidate workers who try to form unions. Across the country, working people are mobilizing to protect their freedom to choose a union. Find out how you can get involved. SOME CURRENT CAMPAIGNS IBM Employees Want Justice: Build Alliance Berlin Nursing Home Workers Keep Fighting As First Contract Struggle Continues For over a year the 120 women and men who work at Berlin Health and Rehabilitation Center have been fighting for livable wages, better resident care, and respect on the job. Last August, workers at the nursing home voted to organize their union (UE Local 254) because of poverty wages, declining resident care, and dangerous working conditions. Rather than address workers concerns, CPL-REIT SubAcute, the for-profit multinational corporation that owns Berlin, has chosen to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars (nursing homes are funded by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) on out of state union busting lawyers to engage in a systematic and illegal effort to scare, intimidate, and bribe workers. In going to these extremes to try and destroy the union, CPL SubAcute has trampled workers rights of free speech and freedom of association. CPL SubAcute is a renegade company which has proven itself only interested in profits even if that means $6.75/hr and poverty for women from Barre and compromised care for our elderly. VSEA-SEIU Stronger Together VSEA activists have been campaigning for affiliation with SEIU as part of an effort to build a strong union with a high level of membership involvement. With half of VSEA members voting, 65+% voted to affiliate with SEIU. Despite this strong majority, VSEA bylaws require a two-thirds majority to accomplish affiliation. Despite this temporary set back for state employees and the Vermont labor movement, the high level of membership participation in this discussion represents a step forward for democratic unionism in Vermont. |