Grant for organizing support

Better Jobs & Better Care: Nurses Exercise Right to Organize 

American Rights at Work

Coming in the spring of 2007, thanks to funding from the Berger-Marks Foundation, will be a report entitled: “Better Jobs and Better Care: Nurses Exercising the Right to Organize.” The report is being researched and published by American Rights at Work, a non-profit organization formed to help make the United States a country that guarantees and promotes the freedom of workers to organize into unions and bargain collectively.

This report highlights the issues that lead nurses to form unions and how health care employers respond when confronted with organizing campaigns. It is based in part on interviews with nurses involved in several ongoing organizing campaigns in various parts of the country conducted by different unions.

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Union Organizing Among Professional Women Workers 

Department for Professional Employees - AFL-CIO, Cornell University

What kind of union organizing is being done among professional women and what is the potential for success? With more than a decade having passed since organized labor last investigated the question, the Department for Professional Employees (DPE) of the AFL-CIO called upon the Berger-Marks Foundation to fund a new report on the subject.

In the resulting groundbreaking report, Cornell University educator and researcher Kate Bronfenbrenner found that:

• roughly half of U.S. workers are in professional/technical and clerical occupations;
• women make up 58 percent of the professional and technical workforce;
• occupations in which professional and technical women are employed have the highest rate of successful union organizing; and
• organizing campaigns among these workers have the greatest likelihood of succeeding if they utilize multiple organizing strategies.

Click here to read the "Union Organizing Among Professional Women Workers" report.

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Training helps JWJ be more effective 

Jobs with Justice, St. Louis

Rev. Audrey Hollis (right)

Less than $6,000 in Berger-Marks Foundation grant funds to Jobs with Justice in St. Louis, Missouri were “transformational to our capacity to do our work,” reports Director Lara Granich. Lara and the chapter’s organizer, Rev. Audrey Hollis, were both able to participate in unique organizing training that had been way out of their financial reach before.

Both also received database training that has made their mobilization work “more targeted, more efficient and more effective.”

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