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Nurse Beaten Unconscious in Iowa
Iowa’s decision to weaken collective bargaining for state employees is putting state employees at risk. This claim was made by the AFSCME Council 61 after a nurse was beaten unconscious at a...
Nevada Unions Want the Right to Collectively Bargain
After the 2018 election, UCOMM pointed out that Nevada was the only Right to Work state with full Democratic control. With the rise in power of unions in the state and the growing union population,...
Mueller Gave us a Gift, Texas AFL-CIO fights 1099's
Calm down with Mueller's Report, forget Barr because justice has not been served just yet. We get the Texas AFL-CIO on the phone about how the Silicon Valley is trying to push around the Lone...
Janus Makes Big Dent in Public Employee Union Numbers
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) submitted its annual LM-2 filing with the Department of Labor, which requires all unions to report the number of members and...
Unions Sue Puerto Rico over Pension Mismanagement
More bad news for workers in Puerto Rico as the AFT and AFSCME are filing a lawsuit to alleging that the government has been mishandling public employees retirement accounts. Read more below from...
Janus Co-Worker: He Would Have Been Outsourced Years Ago
Yesterday, UCOMM Blog brought you the news that Mark Janus, the plaintiff in the Janus v AFSCME case had decided to leave his job working as a social worker for the state of Illinois to take a...
Protestors to Mark Janus: “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
Public Enemy number 1 today is Mark Janus. If you Google Mark Janus, a lot of UCOMM's stuff pops up, as does many stories around one of the most important US Supreme Court cases in recent history...
Unions Kick Off Campaign Against Janus Court Case
Janus v. AFSCME is set to be heard by the Supreme Court in 19 days and public employee unions are preparing for the case. Today those unions held a press conference in Washington D.C. to discuss the...
Remembering the "I AM" Sanitation Strike Campaign
Across the nation people are taking part in the I AM 2018 day of remembrance for Echol Cole and Robert Walker. Both men were killed on February 1st when they were crushed by their sanitation truck....
Strengthen Our Unions Before Trump's Janus
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Janus v. AFSCME case on February 26th. A decision on the case is expected in June. Over the next six months, public sector unions from across...