$5.3 Million Verdict Against Union Local: Corporate Campaign Disparaged Business

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Campaign ◽  
Union Local

scholarly journals Union Efforts to Reduce COVID-19 Infections Among Grocery Store Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110156
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Crowell ◽  
Alan Hanson ◽  
Louisa Boudreau ◽  
Robyn Robbins ◽  
Rosemary K. Sokas
Keyword(s):  
Sick Leave ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Vaccination Uptake ◽  
Union Local ◽  
Specific Safety ◽  
Paid Sick Leave

Grocery store workers are essential workers, but often have not been provided with appropriate protection during the current pandemic. This report describes efforts made by one union local to protect workers, including negotiated paid sick leave and specific safety practices. Union representatives from 319 stores completed 1612 in-store surveys to assess compliance between 23 April 2020 and 31 August 2020. Employers provided the union with lists of workers confirmed to have COVID-19 infection through 31 December 2020. Worker infection rates were calculated using store employees represented by the union as the denominator and compared to cumulative county infection rates; outcome was dichotomized as rates higher or lower than background rates. Restrictions on reusable bags and management enforcement of customer mask usage were most strongly associated with COVID-19 rates lower than rates in the surrounding county. Stores that responded positively to worker complaints also had better outcomes. The union is currently engaging to promote improved ventilation and vaccination uptake.

scholarly journals History of a children’s home

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-182
Author(s):  
Alexander Ivanovich Repinetskiy
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Remote Rural Area ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Union Local ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material Conditions

The paper is devoted to history of childrens home 25 established in 1946 on the territory of the Kuibyshev Region. Children of Russian emigrants living in Austria were accommodated there. These children were transferred to representatives of the Soviet authorities by the American administration. Under the terms of the agreements between the USSR, the USA and Great Britain signed at the Yalta conference (1945) people with the Soviet nationality were transferred to the Soviet Union. Children of Russian emigrants born in Austria didnt belong to this category but despite it they were transferred to the Soviet Union. Local authorities didnt know what to do with repatriated children. That is why the childrens home was established in a remote rural area; life and material conditions of its inhabitants were heavy: there was no necessary furniture or school supplies. Its tutors and staff were in a more difficult situation. Some of them lost their jobs. Some children were returned to parents. Unfortunately, available documents do not allow tracking the future of the children from this childrens home.

Occupational Health Internship Program at a Metropolitan Transit Authority: Exploring Split Shifts as a Health and Safety Concern for Bus Operators

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-283
Author(s):  
Sophia Sidhu ◽  
Grace An
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Safety Concern ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Upward Communication ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Union Local ◽  
Route Scheduling

Bus operators are exposed to many occupational hazards, ranging from workplace violence to air pollution to biohazards. Through a summer project, Occupational Health Internship Program students explored bus operators’ health and safety concerns at the Amalgamated Transit Union Local #265 in San Jose, CA. Pilot surveys and individual interviews were used to identify operators’ perspectives on split shifts. A majority of a small sample of 109 bus operators reported dissatisfaction with split shifts, experience with physical and mental fatigue, stress from working these shifts, and inability to focus on immediate tasks due to working split shifts. Some operators preferred split shifts for various reasons, including having time to perform errands, eat lunch, and rest. Operators’ suggestions to improve route scheduling include split shift observations by management, upward communication with senior management, and improvement of bus yard and relief point facilities where operators take their breaks between shifts.

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