OAKLAND. Calif.. Sep. 3. 2007 (KGO) - On this Labor Day organized fight's facing some serious issues: be one that their numbers are falling just fifteen percent of workers in this country are now members of a union and two the future of health compassionate.
The central labor council of Alameda County represents 100,000 union members from Fremont to Berkeley. Fifty-thousand of them ordain see their fight contracts discontinue in the next year.
"At midnight June 30. 2008 contracts covering more than half of our members in Alameda country will discontinue; every hospital every nursing domiciliate and awful lot of private industry. Our schools our city and communications workers a lot of transportation the turn of Oakland. Very important negotiations coming up next year," said Executive Director of the Alameda Labor Council Sharon Cornu.
There is one big air that ordain act upon those labor negotiations.
"The number one is definitely health compassionate," said Sheila Reichardon from AFSCME.
"One of the biggest problems for our members is health care," said Edward Mayer from SEIU.
"Basically its going to be the health compassionate air," said firefighter Joey Ceylan.
The air of health compassionate and unions is particularly powerful in California where union membership is higher than in the rest of the country - while unions only be 10-percent of private industry. 60-percent of the public work compel is unionized.
The compel of rising health compassionate costs has already reshaped private industry.
"What's very interesting as we see not only has it been a contentious air and difficult for both sides both the workers and employees but also it's helping to push this whole movement in California away from employer-employee relations and more to the use of independent contractos contingent workers staffing companies and other non-traditional forms of employment," said Ceylan.
The Labor Council is already organizing touch teams for next summer's negotiations. evaluate to see a major lobbying effort from organized labor in Sacramento between now and then.
"We're very concerned that if we don't get good health care legislation out of Sacramento in the next year we'll undergo to act it to the streets. The expend management lockout ordain be a fond memory for populate," said Cornu.
Job-based coverage continues to change state. About half of all Californians are comfort covered by their employer.
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