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Workers First: In the States Roundup

… It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state … @AFLCIO pic.twitter.com/aZEzfJ1Qym — Alaska AFL-CIO (@AKAFLCIO) June 17, 2020 California Labor Federation: Eden Alva is right. The #Uber / #Lyft ballot measure is nothing more than a corrupt campaign that will exempt gig corporations from paying … to file complaints about businesses failing to follow COVID safety policies. At the end of May, the state shut it down right as cases began to climb again. https://t.co/Ait8ZriTk0 — Florida AFL-CIO (@FLAFLCIO) June 24, 2020 Georgia State …
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Workplace Safety Is Everybody's Business: In the States Roundup

… It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state … Labor Federation, AFL-CIO: COVID paid leave is key to ensuring no worker has to make the impossible choice of going to work sick or losing wages needed to make rent and keep food on the table. Frontline workers, like @unacuhcp nurses, spoke … the Senate a letter to Pass SB 41!! ✊ALL New Mexico workers! We need your voice to help the healthcare workers @UNM_SRMC RIGHT NOW!✊ @AFTNM https://t.co/6lbCLA4zFm — ✊ NMFL ✊ (@NMFLaflcio) February 3, 2022 New York State AFL-CIO: The NYS AFL-CIO …
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Pres. Shuler's Speech at the 2024 Climate Jobs Summit

… Good morning, everyone! I really want to thank the whole Climate Jobs team for your work to make clean energy jobs GOOD, UNION jobs today and every day. Because we all know: Bringing together climate and … with workers at the center—demanding our seat at the table, demanding equity for women and workers of color, demanding our right to bargain and organize these sectors… …OR we’re going to miss a huge opportunity and be dragged backwards. And let …
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Excerpts from IBEW Member Rene Cruz’s Diary from the Bazta Arpaio Campaign in Arizona

… Rene Cruz, an election volunteer and Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245 organizer and steward is out in Arizona working to retire Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Cruz sent us some updates from his Bazta Arpaio campaign log this week. Here are some highlights: We continue to get a lot of support to defeat Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Pledge cards are on the rise, and the number of people who are willing to give their pledge is …
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Help in a Housing Crisis: Oregon AFL-CIO to Turn Its HQ into Worker Housing

… its Portland office from the Machinists (IAM) union in 2011, the 1967-vintage union hall got a face-lift. Now it’s about to get a new body. If all goes as planned, the Oregon Labor Center will meet a wrecking ball in mid-2017 to make way for a … create a separate non-profit entity to limit organizational liability. Chamberlain met June 27 with an architect to begin work on a site plan and will begin interviewing prospective developers July 8. The plan is to choose a developer by … 1,000 people a month are moving to Portland. "Finding developable land for affordable housing is really hard in Portland right now," Johnstone told the Labor Press. "This is an example of labor giving back to the community by using its real …
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18 Important Things You Need to Know from the 2021 Death on the Job Report

… of workplace injury, illness and death remains too high, and too many workers remain at serious risk. There is much more work to be done. … Here are 18 important things from the 2021 Death on the Job report you need to know. In 2019: 1. 275 U.S. workers, on average, died each day from hazardous working conditions. 2. 5,333 workers were …
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Five Essentials for a Just Response to the Migrant Surge

… of immigrants and refugees have always helped build, serve and feed our nation. Today is no different. Unions stand ready to welcome more immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers and help them integrate into the workforce in good union jobs.  While we continue the long-term fight for a broad pathway to citizenship and comprehensive reform of our unjust immigration system, we call for an immediate response to the migrant … achieve self-sufficiency, but legal barriers and backlogs make it difficult and far too slow for them to receive formal work authorization. These realities force too many migrants, including children, into the informal economy and dangerous …
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Unionism Made Nabisco Great. Corporate Greed Is Tearing Us Down

… This post originally appeared at Medium . As told to me by Victor Weekes. At 4 a.m., the bridge from Washington to Oregon is gray and quiet. The seasons pass quickly after 41 … facility at 5:15 a.m., hit the clock at 6 and punch out at 2. Like many of us, I pride myself on my professionalism and work ethic. We make Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers, Chicken in a Biskit, Chips Ahoy! and Wheat Thins. Good stuff. We set a high … chipping away at us in every Mondelez plant across the country. There’s always that threat over your head, and it’s real. Right now, hundreds of jobs are set to leave Chicago. Other plants have closed as jobs have been shipped to Mexico. And our …
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On Strike Against the Boeing Company

… in seven states. For more than nine months, representatives from SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001 met with Boeing in an effort to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. During this period: Boeing disciplined the engineers' bargaining chairman for expressing the employees' point of view to the press; Boeing refused to engage in meaningful negotiations on economic items despite the company's record profits and aggressive acquisition strategy; Boeing threatened to retaliate against employees who engage in their right to strike. These activities are the subject of unfair labor practice charges pending before the National Labor …