In a stunning upset that reflects the growing militancy of workers and union members, a rank-and-file slate swept to victory in Teamster Union elections last month. The Teamsters United slate routed the incumbent slate that has ruled the union for years by a margin of about two-to-one. The incumbent backed slate had the backing of […]
Citing “flagrant disregard” of fair election rules by Amazon, the National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new election at the company’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse. The NLRB found that Amazon improperly interfered with the first election earlier this year. NLRB Atlanta region director Lisa Y. Henderson cited the company’s flagrant disregard” of agency procedures that […]
Don’t let some of the media pundits and so-called “moderates” fool you. In the wake of the defeat of Democrats in a number of races around the country, there has been a stream of lament that they have gone “too far to the left,” (whatever that means!). Example: Virginia Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger remarked last week, […]
The AFL-CIO has posted on its website a statement from its president, Liz Shuler, on what the recently passed infrastructure law means to America’s workers. Click the link below to access it. https://aflcio.org/press/releases/infrastructure-and-investment-breakthrough-victory-working-families And for further late news and views from the national AFL-CIO, click the link below: afl-cio.org
We link below to the newspaper of two international unions, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) and the United Auto Workers, listing their accomplishments this past year. We will be linking to other union newspapers from time to time. https://www.ueunion.org; https://uaw.org
More than 120 workers across 11 regions at the National Audubon Society voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America in a string of official National Labor Relations Board elections last year, joining their colleagues in the organization’s national headquarters as members of CWA. CWA-Union.org “Workers wanting to […]
Hundreds of workers employed at Waste Management throughout Orange County, Cal. have won significant wage and pension, and healthcare increases after ratifying a groundbreaking contract. The workers are members of Local 396 of the Teamsters Union. Sanitation workers have worked hard throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, up to 14 hours a day in order to ensure […]
After years of failed negotiations, Flight Attendants at Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, are currently taking a strike authorization vote that would allow them to go on strike at any moment if the company continues to refuse to reach a fair contract. Piedmont Flight Attendants, members of the Communications Workers of America, helped […]
After previously rejecting two proposed contracts over the heads of their union leaders, workers at John Deere voted to approve a new six-year contract Nov. 17 that wins big gains for them. The new contract, approved by 61 % of the 10,000 Deere workers, members of the United Auto Workers in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas, […]
