A senior official of the United Automobile Workers, who asked not to be identified, suggested that Ford's actions might revive the cooperative labor partnership between the company and the union, which had frayed in recent years.
This Thursday, we will lift up the lives and work of six amazing leaders, the organizations they help run, and the changes they've helped bring about in four key areas -- community organizing, labor partnership, community leadership and community activism.
The result of this violent interlude was a management-labor partnership that soon made Flint one of the wealthiest cities in America.
The Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI) is a coalition of 35 hospitals, 4 major insurers, more than 30 major and small-business health care purchasers, dozens of corporate and civic leaders, organized labor, and partnerships with state and federal government all working together to deliver perfect patient care throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania.
"While nonprofits funded with public money struggle to achieve even moderate success in job training, unions and labor-management partnerships are running a parallel system that trains and upgrades the skills of over 200,000 people a year," the report said.
Following graduation, he worked for the Doctors Councill in New York City, handling grievances, engaging in union organizing and negotiating labor-management partnerships.
Teams of hands-on educators -- superintendents, teachers, union leaders and school board members -- attended the conference, coming from schools districts across the country to Denver, where they learned about terrific examples of labor-management partnerships that are producing great results for students.
They have created a giant political action committee, helped forge an unusual labor-management partnership with Kaiser Permanente, and helped block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for universal health coverage, arguing that it was too watered down.
The other founders are Steve Rosenthal, president of the labor-backed Partnership for America's Families, who will be the committee's chief executive; Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club; and Cecile Richards and Gina Glantz of America Votes, a new coalition of groups that support Democratic policies.
The alternative model of labor-management partnership does work".
