INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Carrier has reached an agreement with the United Steelworkers union to provide severance packages to the 1,400 workers who will be displaced by the company’smove to Mexico in 2017.
Working people and the issues we care about have been a prominent part of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week. The program has been filled with union leaders and members, members of union families and longtime advocates and allies. Advocates like Hillary Clinton.
During Clinton's speech, she made a powerful case for working families. A key passage:
It has been five months since the contract expiration between UFCW and Albertsons, Ralphs, and Vons, and yet management is still failing to hold up their end of the bargain. Each day that passes means another day without a living wage, affordable medical benefits, and retirement security for 50,000 hardworking individuals and their families.
You can show moral support by adopting a store in your community. By doing this, it strengthens the bond between the workers and community.
The more than 30 Apple drivers work for Loop Transportation, which also employs Teamster drivers at Facebook. The new contract provides for improvements that many other tech industry contracts negotiated by Teamsters Local 853 include.(OAKLAND, Calif.) – Apple shuttle drivers who are members of Teamsters Local 853 in Oakland have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a first agreement.
The contract would have covered 600 drivers, yard persons and batch persons, who have also authorized a strike against both companies.(SAN FRANCISCO) – Northern California Ready Mix drivers have turned down a last, best and final offer from Central and Ceme
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More than 2,000 AFSCME delegates took it to the streets Wednesday, standing in solidarity with Culinary Workers demanding a fair contract at the Trump International Hotel.
Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 members who work at the Trump International Hotel won their union elections last December, and the National Labor Relations Board certified their victory in March. Yet Trump International has refused to begin contract negotiations and has conducted an aggressive anti-union campaign, including firings and intimidation of union supporters.
