Union Organizing

One of the biggest challenges when giving a presentation or speaking in public is feeling self-conscious. Similarly, the worst presenters seem too self-absorbed and self-promoting. Presentation expert Nancy Duarte offers this advice to overcome this hurdle: be like Yoda. After evaluating hundreds of presentations, the most common mistake I see is presenters who are self-absorbed and self-promoting in their content.

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When Samantha Joseph joined Iron Mountain, a $3 billion storage and records-management company, back in 2009, the company wasn't overtly concerned about corporate social responsibility. She came aboard as a strategy manager, "knowing the company had no sustainability function and hoping to build it," writes John Butman, an expert on how ideas spread, in the Harvard Business Review .

With apologies to Tolstoy, many unhappy teams are, in fact, alike. A survey of 146 growth companies conducted by Build this summer found that misalignment is not random. Patterns do exist, often coalescing around five pressure points that company leaders cited time and again.

The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S. ..

Work Shouldn't Hurt!

Work Shouldn't Hurt!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 8, 2013 CONTACT: Todd Stenhouse, tstenhouse@afscme3299.org, (916) 397-1131 Despite PERB Complaint, UC continues to Illegally threaten and Coerce workers Oakland: The University of California's largest union today gave UC Administrators notice that its members will participate in a one day Unfair Labor Practice Strike of UC Campuses and Medical Centers on November 20th.

"While birthing ROC I have birthed two children," Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the restaurant worker organizing group ROC United, told me over the phone. She was talking over the yells and laughter of her young daughter, riding in a car with her between meetings.

The Membership and Organizing Committee (M&O) is responsible for monitoring membership growth and chapter development in consultation with the Chapter Presidents Council and the Council of Lecturers. This also includes improving the accuracy of the membership list and recommending programs to increase CFA's membership and organizational strength.

In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other's employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators.

A member's FMLA claim for child bonding was wrongly denied and fixed by the Advocacy Center staff working in conjunction with HR. An HHSA member's FMLA that was denied for child bonding was approved after a phone call to HR. A Letter of Warning was reworded as part of a settlement agreement.