Organizing Drives News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Who is Ray Curry?: A profile of the new UAW president and chief conspirator against the Volvo Trucks strikers On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers International Executive Board announced that Ray Curry, the union’s secretary treasurer, will replace the retiring Rory Gamble as UAW president. His term will begin on July 1 and run until the next UAW Constitutional Convention in June 2022. Curry will be the fourth president of the UAW within the space of a little over three years. Two of Curry’s predecessors, Dennis Williams and Gary Jones, were sentenced to prison terms for their role in the ...

Lines. he's been on organizing drives. he spoke out against fast track. we hoped secretary clinton would. 85% of the democrats in the house did. and i think those are the issues that divide them. more importantly they are very divided from divided from the 15 republican candidates running. >> hillary clinton has had a very good record with unianceunions. is there a fight? does this support mean a lot and you have to get it out of way early on? >> well i don't know if there is going to be a fight. but what i will say is in the speech today when hillary emphasized strong growth and fair growth a...

Organizing drives. we can't let private sectors off the hook. we need government to set a basic standard in the labor market. is there which is part of why they're trying to frame public workers as somehow a draw on the system. if they set a standard, they can push the standard down. >> and when the campaigns raise the minimum wage, we have tons of studies showing no negative impacts. employers will fight tooth and nail over every last scent. these are the fronts of the debate. what i would say is the new deal employment and labor law structure is out of date. the principles absolutely still a...

>> sure. >> are union mines safer than non-union mines? >> mines where the mine operator allow their workers to have a voice in safety and freely exercise that, i think are safer mines. >> okay. if they are safer mines why wasn't this a union shop? and did massey fight against any kind of organization in the past? >> absolutely. in fact, that's the other big problem we have in mine safety. it's the way the labor laws are enforced in this country. it is illegal to threaten workers during an organizing drive. the companies do it all the time. i like to liken it toward a bank robbery. imagine, if...