Tired of working for Mickey Mouse low wages, 38,000 union Disney World workers began negotiations Monday for living wages. Wages are the only topic at the bargaining table.
Disney World Unions Push To Transform Mickey Mouse Wages Into Living Wages
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NNU Union Sends Over A Thousand Volunteer Nurses To Houston
National Nurses United’s RN Emergency Response Network is sending a thousand volunteer nurses to Houston. Bonnie Castillo is the RN Emergency Response Network Director for the union.
Bonnie Castillo: “We put a call out to the Registered Nurse Response Network and to date we have over a thousand nurses who are volunteering to go to Houston and the surrounding areas to provide the relief and assistance that people are in critical need of.”
Unions Must Be on the Front Lines of Fight against Racial, Economic Injustice
Unions Must Be on the Front Lines of Fight against Racial, Economic Injustice
by Art Pulaski
Labor Day is both a celebration of American workers and an important reminder of the role unions play in giving working people power to address not only their issues at the workplace, but larger societal ills that have a cascading effect on everyone.
49,000 Jobs UNFILLED At Trump’s VA – Incompetence Or Callous Indifference To Veterans?
Trump’s Veterans Administration is refusing to fill 49,000 staff vacancies at the VA. AFGE, the federal union representing VA workers wants to know why.
AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. says VA Secretary Shulkin already has the money to hire workers for the 49,000 openings – and filling those vacancies would help deliver better health care to America’s veterans.
J. David Cox Sr. : “Secretary Shulkin by his own admission has stated that there are 49,000 vacant positions at the VA throughout the country – 49,000.
Minimum Wage $1 An Hour Increase Equals 9700 Fewer Child Neglect Cases A Year
Researchers at Indiana University and the University of Connecticut say raising the minimum wage by a dollar an hour would decrease child neglect cases. Lindsey Rose Bullinger and Kerri Raissian say that $1 dollar wage increase would result in 9,700 fewer child neglect cases annually. The researchers studied nine years of child mistreatment cases tracking changes in the number of child neglect reports to child protective service agencies with increases in the minimum wage. Bullinger says raising the incomes of the working poor can improve children’s welfare.
At The Top-Secret NAFTA Re-Negotiation Table – 85% Corporate Voices, 5% Labor
NAFTA re-negotiation started Wednesday morning at Washington DC’s Marriott Hotel, but corporate voices dominate at the negotiation table. And the actual text of the rules being re-negotiated is classified information, shutting out the public.
The AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake is at the NAFTA re-negotiation table for working people. She says working people need a complete re-writing of NAFTA rules to eliminate the corporate domination.
People’s Veto’ Power Stops Missouri Anti-Union Law
Missouri workers have stopped the anti-union ‘Right To Work’ law there in its tracks. Passed by a Republican dominated legislature, the anti-worker law attacking union finances was set to take effect August 28th. But thanks to a ballot initiative petition drive, labor delivered enough signatures to block the law. The question will be on the state ballot in Missouri in 2018.
Mike Louis is President of the Missouri AFL-CIO.