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Unions Improve Workers' Lives: What Working People Are Doing This Week

… Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the … Kellogg’s workers. Shame on Kellogg’s bosses for trying to permanently replace their workers for exercising their legal right to strike. #NoScabs #1u pic.twitter.com/FMt1OuWuSt — ATU, Transit Union (@ATUComm) December 14, 2021 American … As working-class musicians, singers, dancers, actors, stagehands, and other arts workers across the country return to work, the last thing they need is a tax code that punishes them for seeking work. Tell Congress to Restore Tax Fairness for …
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Fact Sheet on Why the H-2B Program is Bad for Working People

… lawsuits tell a different story – the H-2B program displaces U.S. workers, lowers wages, and exposes foreign workers to exploitation. Employers urging lawmakers to pass policy riders to expand the H-2B program exponentially and gut crucial wage and labor protections only have their … that workers will leave an abusive employer or complain about unpaid wages or poor working conditions. This captive work structure perpetuates cycles of exploitation for H-2B workers and puts downward pressure on the wages and standards for …
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2024 is All About Worker Power: What Working People Are Doing This Week

… Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the … Federation of Musicians: Did you know? @The_AFM musicians are finding it harder to make a living as Made-for-Streaming work continues to eclipse traditional film/TV work. Made-for-Streaming work doesn't produce residuals for musicians, leaving … The "Miracle on the Hudson" would not have been a miracle w/o everyone doing exactly what needed to be done at just the right moment. Proud of the 1549 crew. Aviation's First Responders pic.twitter.com/xYUapK88I7 — AFA-CWA (@afa_cwa) January 15, …
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Standing Strong and United: What Working People Are Doing This Week

… Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the … Equity: Actors' Equity President Brooke Shields spoke with the Washington Post about her new role, using her platform to "ask for more for the members," and the importance of arts funding. https://t.co/mtuwPmHTlE — Actors' Equity … American Postal Workers Union - APWU (@APWUnational) September 3, 2024 Association of Flight Attendants-CWA: Every day we work with the responsibility of serving as aviation’s last line of defense. And every year we remember why. Nothing unites us …
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Working People Respond to Elementary School Mass Shooting in Uvalde, Texas

… Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. On a day when the teachers and students of Robb Elementary School were planning to gear up for summer vacation, they instead faced the unimaginable. Classrooms should be the safest place for a child to … epidemic like the urgent public health problem that it is. We can balance the rights of responsible gun owners with the right of students, teachers, paraprofessionals, custodians, cafeteria workers, crossing guards and others to walk through the … their kids to school without fear of getting shot and killed. We all need to be able to feel and be safe: at school, at work, in places of worship, everywhere.” NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, said, “The trauma of gun violence and especially …
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Together We Can Make Pay Equity a Reality for All Working Women

… passage of the Equal Pay Act, the 1963 law that prohibits employers from paying men and women different wages for the same work solely based on sex. The Equal Pay Act’s passage is an important example of the labor movement’s long history of partnering with progressive women’s organizations to advocate for equal pay for women. Indeed, Esther Peterson —one of the labor movement’s greatest sheroes—was instrumental … landmark legislation. … Pay equity and transparency are bread and butter issues for working women; when they come together to negotiate collectively for fair wages and important benefits, like access to health insurance and paid leave, they can …
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Trumka to Labor Energy Partnership: America's Energy Future Can't Exclude Working People

… Hello everyone, welcome to the Labor Energy Partnerhsips’s Ohio River Valley Workshop, I’m Rich Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO.  Secretary Moniz, … prosperity.  It starts now. Built in America. In every part of America.  Labor will pave the path, and it runs right through the mighty Ohio River Valley.  My home town Nemacolin, Pennsylvania is part of the Ohio River watershed. It’s a … about what this means.  It’s kids struggling in under-resourced schools.  Pensions earned by a lifetime of hard, dangerous work taken by our rotten bankruptcy laws.  Entire regions left with no economic driver, in soul-crushing poverty, no hope for …
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We All Share the Same Fight: The Working People Weekly List

… Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. … America’s Most Powerful Union Leaders … Federation of Teachers [AFT]; and Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants [AFA-CWA], to talk about what’s happened and where they go from here. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation that … labor movement sees AI as both a potential and a challenge. In general, she said, labor leaders like technology that makes work safer and more efficient, but they are concerned AI could degrade work or automate jobs away. She said the government …
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What Working People in Their Unions Are Doing to End Gender-Based Violence on the Job

… April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time to educate our communities about the prevalence of sexual assault and ways to prevent it. The labor movement is committed to ending sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based violence, especially … in the workplace. … Gender-based violence in the workplace refers to sexual violence in all of its forms that occurs at work, or on the way to and from work, including sexual harassment, stalking behaviors, assault and rape, trafficking, …
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It's Time to Scrap the Cap: What Working People Are Doing This Week

… Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the … June 26, 2024 Machinists: Delta is still breaking international labor standards by interfering with workers' inherent right to freely organize their union, without fear and intimidation. 😡 https://t.co/i6XnWKCtIL — Machinists Union … pic.twitter.com/YWT6zKE4Z9 — NFLPA (@NFLPA) June 21, 2024 North America's Building Trades Unions: "Because of the work I do, as well as the work of all of my sisters in the trades, I know that the path to a meaningful career in …