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Fair Pay Is Worth Fighting For: 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 … We won't stop calling out @apple for its disgusting union busting 😤.  If you support workers like @acoreunion and their right to organize, this is the petition you need to sign ⬇️ https://t.co/bMrEEvVg1q — Machinists Union (@MachinistsUnion) … and make sure construction workers are paid every dollar they earned. Thank you to @msainat1 for highlighting our union’s work to ensure tradesworkers get what they’re owed. https://t.co/G4MUkIjbyZ — IUPAT (@GoIUPAT) February 14, 2024 Plasterers …
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AFL-CIO and Mexico's National Workers Unions Stand Against Bill that Will Hurt All Working People

… … Mexico’s bill would lock in low wages and poor working conditions. It also would frustrate legitimate unions' efforts to negotiate together on behalf of Mexican workers, who work the longest hours for the lowest pay among all countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation … under the Mexican constitution responsible for registering unions and collective bargaining agreements. Give control to employers and employer-dominated unions to continue to keep independent unions out of the workplace. Eliminate …
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Union Momentum Remains Strong: 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 … look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week. … Actors' Equity: Last month, four swings came together to discuss the highs and lows of swinging, how their place in the theatre has evolved and what the industry can do to better … of Flight Attendants-CWA: In announcing their campaign, Breeze Flight Attendants cited issues with constantly-changing work rules, drastically substandard pay for time on the job, hotel accommodations, insufficient work hours, and disrespectful …
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We Need Shared Governance Back: 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. … New Rule Would Stop Civil Service from … political appointments filled based on partisan loyalty would undermine this fundamental tenet of our government and lead to chaos and corruption. Such actions would undermine our democratic, nonpartisan government and take us back to the 19th … Union : “Last month, student workers at Berea College announced their plans to organize a labor union—the first at any Work College in the country. Members of the United Student Workers of Berea are organizing for a number of reasons, including …
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AFL-CIO and Canadian Labour Congress joint statement on promoting trade deals that work for people over profits

… jobs, strengthen protection for internationally-recognized labor rights (including freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining), protect our environment, and promote shared prosperity and a virtuous cycle of rising wages and … economic policies, including many of the rules enshrined in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, have promoted a race to the bottom in terms of wages, labor rights, environmental protection, and public interest regulation.  That is why we join …
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Music Fairness Awareness Month: 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 … #MusicFairness Awareness Month! For too long, huge radio corporations have ignored musicians’ pleas for #fairpay when our work is played on the radio. This injustice must end. Sign the AMFA petition below to show your support. … — IBEW (@IBEW) November 4, 2021 Farm Labor Organizing Committee: Mark your calendars! Songs for Justice is coming right up! Join us for a festive and soulful evening! Hasta La Victoria! Check out the link in the video or click here... …
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Working People are Tackling High Drug Costs Through State-Level Reforms

… Despite all of the talk in Washington, D.C., about health care, Congress and Donald Trump have done nothing to deal with the No. 1 health care problem facing working people. Surging health care prices—especially prescription drug … workers' health plans and public health programs. … Consider this: the average annual cost of a brand-name drug grew to $5,807 in 2015, more than three times what it was in 2006 ($1,788), according to AARP’s most recent analysis of widely used brand-name prescription drugs. There also have been instances of immense …
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Pass the Inflation Reduction Act: 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 … 4, 2022 Electrical Workers: 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/yHmN01HD2h — IBEW (@IBEW) August 3, 2022 Fire Fighters: Excellence takes work. Committee meetings have started here at #IAFF56th Convention pic.twitter.com/1CbvYnGM1u — International Association of … — LIUNA (@LIUNA) July 27, 2022 Machinists: We agree with you, @SenAmyKlobuchar . Owen Herrnstadt is the right person to help our country meet this moment as a Board Member of the @EximBankUS https://t.co/mJGfpp77XA …
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Union Approval Rate Reaches 71%: 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 … 2022 Laborers: #Unions give workers a voice on the job & improve communication between workers & management. Live better, work safer, work union! Start today & earn-as-you-learn through LIUNA's union apprenticeship: https://t.co/pXOFJEJgJO #LIUNA … — RWDSU (@RWDSU) August 30, 2022 Roofers and Waterproofers: Using the war as an excuse to deprive workers of their right to union protection and collective bargaining is unconscionable. https://t.co/8NxUwpTvMc — Roofers Union …
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Trumka at the Joe Rauh Lecture: Anything is Possible When Working People Stand Together

… of Columbia Law School's Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture: Good evening. Dean Hutchins, thank you for the invitation to speak tonight. It’s a great honor for me to be here.  Chip, my brother, thank you. We go back a long time. If it wasn’t … you first need to help people.” It was a message about fairness, dignity and justice for all.  When it was time to go to work, I followed my father and grandfather into the mines. That’s what Trumka men did. I also went to college at Penn State … of one individual.  Thirty-seven years ago, on Christmas week at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia, I raised my right hand and took the oath of office as president of the United Mine Workers. I was 33. It was one of the greatest days of …