The latest in John Wilhelm

Union leader says Ôcard checkÕ is on SenateÕs back burner

2010-02-24T02:53:50Z

<div><p> As unions continue to push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, one of the labor movementÕs most progressive leaders is sending a message to his colleagues: DonÕt hold your breath.</p><p>John Wilhelm, president of Unite Here, the international hotel and casino workers union, told attendees at the Global Gaming Expo on Wednesday that the AFL-CIO 4 years after leaving in dispute</div><div><p>One of the unions that left the AFL-CIO in a bitter dispute that split the labor movement four years ago is coming back to the labor federation.</p><p>The union of hotel, restaurant and clothing workers known as UNITE HERE is bringing its 265,000 members back a day aft...

NO SOLIDARITY FOR LABOR

2010-02-26T22:23:51Z

<div><h1> NO SOLIDARITY FOR LABOR </h1><p>Months after helping put Barack Obama in the White House, organized labor's most important unions are sliding into vicious internecine warfare.</p><p> The strife has become so intense that the senior Democratic leadership is intervening. Barack Obama president, the labor movementÕs No. 1 legislative priority — a bill that would make it easier for workers to organize — is in severe jeopardy, ...

Unite Here even more split as co-leader resigns in huff

2010-02-27T02:52:11Z

<div><p> A bitter, protracted leadership struggle within one of the nationÕs most progressive unions apparently ended Friday when Unite Here General President Bruce Raynor resigned, ceding control of the international apparel and hotel workers union to the man with whom he shared power, John Wilhelm.</p><p>Raynor said he decided to quit after WilhelmÕs allies, accompanied by nearly a d...

SUNDAY CONVERSATION WILHELMÕs STAND: LABOR WILL REBUILD MIDDLE CLASS

2010-02-27T02:52:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Organizational fighting, he says, is a step toward private sector unionization</div><div><p> John Wilhelm was dispatched to Las Vegas in 1987 to salvage a casino workers union rattled by devastating losses.</p><p>The Cu...

Leader of UNITE HERE resigns as labor feud grows

2010-02-27T04:09:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Union fight gets nasty as leader resigns, accuses rivals of stealing documents</div><div><p>The long-simmering clash between rival factions at the labor union UNITE HERE grew increasingly bitter on Friday as its general president resigned and accused his opponents of breaking into his office to steal sensitive files.</p><p>It's the latest turn in a nasty divorce that has split the union of roug...

SUNDAY CONVERSATION STERN EXPLAINS: THE SEIU CHIEF ON HOW UNIONS SHOULD COEXIST

2010-02-27T11:43:43Z

<div id="subtitle">He’s signaling a truce with Culinary but has harsh words for its parent, Unite Here</div><div><p> In Andy Stern’s world view, bigger is better.</p><p>And better still if the center of that world is his 2-million-member Service Employees Intern...

Union power struggle escalates

2010-03-01T21:20:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Unite Here’s review board seeks federal probe as leadership battle poses threat to election</div><div><p> Unions want President Barack Obama’s pick for labor secretary, Rep. Hilda Solis, to be an advocate for workers’ rights who will advance an agenda that will tilt the balance of power back to organized labor.&am...

Big union reels as card-check fight looms

2010-03-02T08:45:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Culinary leader in Vegas calls parent union chief’s actions ‘undemocratic’</div><div><p> At a time when Big Labor is pushing for one voice to win its most ambitious priority since the Great Depression card check legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize one of the countrys largest and most progressive unions is busy fighting its ...