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Ironing Out Sexual Harrassment
ENR named Iron Workers (IW) general organizer for safety and diversity Vicki O'Leary a 2018 top 25 newsmaker. The honor is in recognition of her groundbreaking work through the organization's...
Substitute Teachers Not Crossing LA Pickets
It is Day 2 of the LA Teachers strike and it's not only full-time teachers that are walking the picket line. They were joined by substitute teachers, many of whom were asked to scab and fill in...
30,000 LA Teachers Strike
Facing a driving rain, teachers in Los Angeles arrived at school this morning prepared to make history. Instead of entering into their buildings and classrooms, the union educators set up picket...
Support LA Teachers, Wear Red
If you drop your kids off at school on Thursday, January 10th take a look at what color the teachers are wearing. If they are wearing red, then you know that they support working people. This is...
Organizing Victories for Teachers and Retail Clerks
2019 is here, and employees at these four workplaces will begin negotiating their first collective bargaining agreements thanks to their recent union votes.
20 States Increase their Minimum Wage
Over 17 million people will be ringing in the new year with a pay raise. Thanks to legislation, ballot measures and inflation rates will be increased in 2019. As of January 1st, at least nineteen...
Union Busters Going Door to Door
Six months after the Janus decision, public sector unions from around the country have said that a strong organizing campaign caused them lose very few members. In New York, the New York State United...
The Red Cross are Teamsters
This post was written by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Mobile blood collections staff at the American Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri, voted 32-1 yesterday to become members of...
Union ArcAngels: Unions Giving Back
This post was written by the PA AFL-CIO. There are 236 union ArcAngels in Lancaster County this year. Since 2004, the Lancaster County Central Labor Council has taken part in the ArcAngels program...
Walmart and Target Selling Poisonous Toys
The New York Attorney General is suing Walmart, Target and LaRose Industries for selling wristbands to kids that had lead levels significantly higher than allowed. Read more from the AP.