By Adam Pagnucco. The staff union representing employees of CASA, the immigrant rights nonprofit based in Hyattsville, MD, has launched an online petition supporting its negotiations for a new collective…
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You Kill My Dog, I Kill Your Cat
By Adam Pagnucco. “You kill my dog, I kill your cat.” So wrote former Baltimore Sun reporter Mike Dresser fifteen years ago. Dresser was writing about state legislators killing each…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I broke the story that UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees in the D.C. region, had launched a boycott of…
By Adam Pagnucco. As I reported earlier, UNITE HERE Local 25 – which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees in the Washington region – has launched a boycott of the…
By Adam Pagnucco. Update: This post now includes a response from Council Member Laurie-Anne Sayles. Recently, I reported that UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees,…
By Adam Pagnucco. UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents hotel, restaurant and casino employees in the Washington region, has called for a boycott of the Montgomery County Conference Center. The…
MCM Labor Dispute Heats Up
By Adam Pagnucco. Back in April, I wrote that a union representing production employees at MCM (Montgomery Community Media) had filed an unfair labor practice charge against MCM alleging failure…
By Adam Pagnucco. NABET-CWA Local 31 has filed an unfair labor practice charge against MCM (Montgomery Community Media) alleging that MCM is refusing to bargain a new collective bargaining agreement….
In a victory for some of the D.C. Metro Area’s lowest-paid professionals, Montgomery College’s adjunct faculty voted by a 365-105 margin in favor of representation by SEIU Local 500. We…
Regular readers will recall how Montgomery College told its adjunct professors that they were “not public employees” in order to avoid allowing them a union election. Now the college is…