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Dec 7, 2024 · SEIU Joins AFL-CIO in Effort to Combat Upcoming Trump Policies Dello Russo Laser Vision: Championing Clear Vision for Union Members Kaiser Permanente Strike in San Diego Continues DOT Fines JetBlue for Delays Caused by Lack of Investment in Workers President-Elect Trump and Corporate Interests Threaten Workers’ Rights More Transit Worker Stabbings as Violence Continues Physicians Threaten ...
AFM International President Tino Gagliardi Brings Decades of …
Sep 10, 2023 · New York, NY — At the 102nd Convention held in Las Vegas, NGV, Tino Gagliardi was elected International President of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
NYC Council Passes Bill To Curb ‘Sham’ Sanitation Unions
Mar 1, 2019 · NEW YORK, N.Y.—The City Council unanimously passed a bill Feb. 28 that would give sanitation-industry regulators the power to take on company unions at private commercial-trash haulers.
Local 205 of DC 37 and NYC Reach Daycare Contract Agreement
Oct 18, 2024 · New York, NY – New York City and District Council 37 announced a tentative five-year contract agreement at City Hall on October 16, 2024, between Local 205 of DC 37 and the Day Care Council of New York.
Walmart Ordered to Stop Mistreating Workers – LaborPress
May 21, 2018 · WASHINGTON, DC – In a landmark decision, Walmart has been ordered to stop threatening workers who support strikes or participate in union organizing activities.. Walmart has settled a long-running battle with labor activists over the stores policy of punishing workers that support union organize activities.
NYC Building Trades Complete JFK Terminal 6 – LaborPress
On October 2, 2024, hundreds of NYC union construction workers watched the final beams of structural steel be lifted into place at the JFK’s North Side known as Terminal 6.
IBEW Local 25’s apprenticeship drives interest in ... - LaborPress
Apr 2, 2024 · On Long Island, interest in union electrical trades is surging, increasingly with high schoolers interested in union training. For the incoming class of apprentices, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 25’s five-year program received 884 applications.
Local 28 Tin Knockers: Ready to Build the Best of New York City
Jun 15, 2021 · “This feels good – there’s a lot of pride in this.” Above: Local 28 Sheet Metal Workers Anthony Guerrero, Michael Cusick, Ralph Tortora, Matt Kennedy and Jonathan Aguilar in front of One Vanderbilt.
Teamsters Continue Their Fight Against Costco Greed
Dec 20, 2024 · Costco is the third largest retailer in the world. Their profits are almost shocking: $6.3 billion in 2023, net. And yet it continues to short-change its employees, bringing closer and closer the possibility that its 18,000 workers will be forced to strike after the current agreement expires in January 2025.
The Lordstown Strike of ’72: Dreams Of Factory Liberation Deferred
Mar 18, 2019 · LORDSTOWN, Ohio—The General Motors plant that sprawls over a former cornfield along Interstate 80, shuttered since the company stopped production there earlier this month, is the site of one of the great what-ifs of American labor history: a three-week strike in 1972 by 7,500 workers who were not just demanding better wages, but rebelling against the boredom and petty tyranny of factory life.