US workers in the fast-food industry staged a one-day strike in dozens of cities on Thursday, calling for better wages and the right to unionise.
Bo Watson, a state senator, warned shortly before the election that should the workers vote to unionise, "any additional incentives...for expansion or otherwise will have a very tough time passing the Tennessee Senate".
Because Ms Harris and other home-health assistants accept a cheque from the government, Rod Blagojevich, a former governor of Illinois, decreed in 2003 that they were public employees, and that therefore they could unionise.
For the first time, graduate students at private American universities have been granted the right to belong to trade unions.Two-thirds of America's "working students" are at public universities where, as in effect employees of the state, they have long been allowed to unionise.
On February 9th, the firm said that it would close the first of its stores anywhere in North America to unionise.
In previous cases when graduate students have sought to unionise in their capacity as teachers, arbiters have generally been persuaded by these points and rejected the petitions.But Peter Sung Ohr, the NLRB's regional director in Chicago, found that Northwestern's football players were athletes first and students second, and were therefore employees of the university.
But Triangle's owners would not allow the workers to unionise.
Democrats also opposed wording that would make it more difficult for aviation industry workers to unionise.
In 2001 he managed to unionise many of New Jersey's caretakers by persuading their firms that the union demands would take effect only if 55% of firms agreed (ie, they would not be undercut by competitors).
Tellingly, all votes held to unionise Wal-Mart stores have ended in failure.The Jonquière store's closure came just a week after the union had given up on negotiations and asked the provincial government to name an arbitrator to impose a binding labour contract.
He denies that the closure of the Jonquière store has sent a chill through the union's efforts in Saskatchewan.The same cannot be said of the UFCW's efforts to unionise Wal-Mart workers in the United States.
