Labor Education: Steward Training

Special Topics in Steward Training:

Handling Discipline Grievances

May 2-3, 2013

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Reynolds Building, Room 450

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Exploring the 7 Tests of Just Cause
• Understanding Arbitration Standards
• Investigating and Requesting Information
• Writing Grievances
• Special Focus: Handling Attendance Grievances
  • Dealing with Attendance Grievances
  • FMLA and ADA Grievances

Who Should Attend?  Union stewards, grievance committee members, representatives and local union officers involved in grievance handling.

$125 - Early Bird Registration. Deadline: March 28, 2013

$150 - Regular Registration. Deadline: April 11, 2013

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For more information contact the Labor Education Program at 501-569-8483, fax at 501-569-8538 or e-mail lep@ualr.edu

CWA Members Agree to Four-Year Deal With AT&T Southwest

Congratulations to our Communications Workers of America Brothers and Sisters on finalizing a difficult collective bargaining agreement with AT&T.
 

  District 6 covers about 22,000 CWA members at AT&T operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.

“Our members in District 6 take great pride in their work, and the district leadership and the CWA bargaining committee believe we have negotiated a fair and just agreement,” said CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings. “Over 60 percent of our members voted in favor of this agreement, which over its life assures them good wages, family health care and job security.”

An earlier tentative agreement was turned down by a narrow margin last month.

Read more: http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_district_6_ratifies_contract_with_att_southwest

AFL-CIO Southern State Federation, Central Labor Council and Community Services Conference

April 18-21, 2013

AFL-CIO State Federation and Labor Council, and Community Services leaders from all over the southern region will be meeting together to discuss the key issues facing our labor movement and how we can build a stronger labor movement to address these challenges and opportunities.
It has been an incredible two years since we have met in regional conferences. There have been dramatic changes to our movement both positive and negative and we have learned much from these that you will want to share with each other. As leaders in the labor movement it is up to us to Build the Movement for Shared Prosperity and what better place to work on this together but at the 2013 AFL-CIO State Federation and Labor Council Southern Regional Conference.
At this conference we will focus on key legislative issues facing us at the national, state and local levels including the Fiscal Crisis, Immigration and Voter Rights. A comprehensive agenda will be developed over the next several weeks to include: Peer to Peer Discussions, Best Practices and Skill Building Workshops.
We encourage all councils to bring a young worker leader from your organization or affiliate to join you at this conference. We should be deliberate about catching the Next Wave of activists and leaders and give them the opportunity to be a part of these deliberations and skill building workshops.

Southern Region Agenda

Date Start Time End Time Description Thursday, April 18 8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m. Community Services Conference Registration Thursday, April 18 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Community Services Conference Friday, April 19 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Community Services Conference Friday, April 19 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. State Fed/Area/CLC Conference Registration Friday, April 19 1:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. State Fed/Area/CLC Conference Saturday April 20 8:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. State Fed/Area/CLC Conference Sunday, April 21 8:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. State Fed/Area/CLC Conference

To register, use the form below. If you are registering additional guests, please return to this form and click this link to log yourself out and generate a clean sign-up page.

Event Location

Sheraton Music City Hotel - $99.00 plus tax 777 McGavock Pike
Nashville, TN  37214