http://jewschool.com/2010/02/01/20401/31-ideas-wrap-up/ Progressive Jews & Judaism Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://jewschool.com/2010/02/01/20401/31-ideas-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-379399 r Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:58:38 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=20401#comment-379399 There are many ways, besides strikes and pickets, that people organize together to improve their wages, benefits, and working conditions. For one thing, if teh employers and employees are in agreement that strikes and pickets are off the table, then binding arbitration, of at lest the first contract is a possibility. This is one of the goals of the Employee Free Choice Act. There is nothing preventing high road employers from adopting its provisions now. The Hechsher Tzedek should included Employee Free Choice and neutrality so that people could organize unions without fear. If it included alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as third party mediation and arbitration beyond the first contract then strikes and pickets would be even less likely to be a live possibility. There are many ways, besides strikes and pickets, that people organize together to improve their wages, benefits, and working conditions. For one thing, if teh employers and employees are in agreement that strikes and pickets are off the table, then binding arbitration, of at lest the first contract is a possibility. This is one of the goals of the Employee Free Choice Act. There is nothing preventing high road employers from adopting its provisions now. The Hechsher Tzedek should included Employee Free Choice and neutrality so that people could organize unions without fear. If it included alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as third party mediation and arbitration beyond the first contract then strikes and pickets would be even less likely to be a live possibility.

]]> http://jewschool.com/2010/02/01/20401/31-ideas-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-379391 TheWanderingJew Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:56:48 +0000 http://jewschool.com/?p=20401#comment-379391 Hasn't <a href="http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2008/07/21st-century-jewish-catalog-alpha.html" rel="nofollow">BZ already started a 21st Century Jewish Catalogue</a>? Hasn’t BZ already started a 21st Century Jewish Catalogue?

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