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Stopping Work for 8 Minutes, 46 Seconds
This post was written by CWA District 1 VP Dennis Trainor As trade unionists and as Americans, we were all outraged by the vicious murder of George Floyd. We are heartened by the...
Black Teacher: I Am Not Ok
#IAMNOTOK I am not okay that I am made to feel less of an American than other Americans watching people in their pickup trucks and jeeps waving the big ole red, white,...
Trump Withholding Pay for NYC's Frontline Workers
With over 187,000 cases and 20,000 dead from COVID-19 New York City has been the hardest hit area in the world. On the frontlines of the war have been nurses, transit workers, police, fire, EMS, and...
IBEW Members Step Up in Times of Need
New York remains the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, so thousands of businesses have been closed and hundreds of thousands are out of work going over the past two months. These are extremely...
IBEW Union Turns Moonshine into Hand Sanitizer
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department “With many members of Gulfport, Miss., Local 903 still working, keeping their families safe requires a plentiful supply of hand sanitizer....
2-Minute Tribute to Grocery Store Workers
Tuesday, April 28th is Workers Memorial Day, a day to mourn the workers who died on the job over the past year. This year’s remembrance takes on a new meaning as our essential workers go to...
Honoring Those Who Died
This post was written by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) April 28 is Workers Memorial Day, when we remember workers killed or injured on the job and renew our commitment to fight for...
Organized Labor to the Rescue
Schools are shut down, businesses are closed and only essential workers are heading out to work in many parts of the country. Yet this hasn’t stopped unions in the heart of the COVID-19...
Remembering the Fallen
This post was written by the AFL-CIO and is being updated whenever new deaths are reported. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the United States, our sisters, brothers...
Companies Step Up to Save America
In times of crisis, American companies are sometimes asked to step up and help. During World War II, auto companies began producing tanks and during natural disasters, Budweiser cans water instead of...