After his speech on Thursday, Cosatu, the trade union federation, issued a statement saying that it was "somewhat disappointed," mentioning that he said nothing about curtailing practices unions see as exploitative.
When Isaac has finished relating his story, Rebecca tartly says: "I told you it was not good to practice union while drunk with the new wine...
In a sharp departure from past practice, union leaders are calling quick-hit one-day strikes at a number of factories instead of a prolonged walkout at a single site.
In the United States, a union must collect signatures from 30percentt of the workers it seeks to represent, though in practice unions typically try to collect signatures from 50percentt or more to guarantee a substantial margin of victory.
BART had been training some managers as operators so they could run skeletal commuter service in the event of a prolonged strike — a practice unions had opposed, calling it unsafe.
They questioned the potential for even developing acceptable licensing for foreign physicians, as well as medical malpractice coverage for their practices, without union affiliation: " so these doctors…are not going to be part of the union, right?
Unionized workers at a Dunkin' Donuts distribution center in Swedesboro, N.J., have authorized a strike there because of what they call unfair labor practices, the union said yesterday.
The remarkable thing about the BA saga is that for all the talk about Mr Walsh's hardball approach to outdated labour practices, the union has actually achieved almost all of its aims during this dispute.
Participants cautioned that these structures, including existing practices around union membership, should not be altered to the detriment of local health workers and Barbadian patients in order to accommodate an expanded medical tourism sector.
