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MLK in Pictures
On January 20th we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The noted civil rights leader was also a fighter for union rights. Throughout the Civil Rights movement, Dr. King was the link that...
Social Security Payouts Getting Bigger
The Social Security Adminstration has announced a $24 increase in payments. Find out why this simply isn't enough to keep up with the cost of living below.
Union Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) today congratulated NYSUT member M. Stanley Whittingham, a distinguished professor of chemistry and materials science at Binghamton University on winning the...
Trump Proposes Cutting School Lunches
Educators are united against President Trump’s proposal to undercut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which would take away food assistance from millions and deny access to free...
Unions Join Worldwide Climate Strike
Across the world on Friday students and union members walked out and went on strike. The strike is not against one company, but rather a larger call for action on climate change.
9/11 Reminder: Come Together Again
At a regional meeting of elected trade union leaders in Philadelphia today, Chris Erikson, the Business Manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 in NYC started...
Union Leaders Respond to ICE Raid
Children and family members gathered outside of the National Guard base in Mississippi on Thursday desperately waiting for news on the status of their parents, of their husbands, and of their wives....
Unions to Picket ICE Operations
This week, Trump announced that his long-delayed ICE raids would begin this weekend. These raids are not only meant to detain and deport thousands of immigrants, but they are also meant to strike...
IBEW Leads the Battery Revolution
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. The North American electrical grid is the largest machine ever built by human hands. The interconnecting web of power plants, end users and...
Illegal: Serving Alcohol to Homosexuals
Today, June 28th marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. This moment in history is often remembered as the spark that started the modern gay rights movement. While there was advocacy...