NYC Trade Unionists: Don’t Believe Corporate Media Propaganda On Venezuela

Communications Workers Protest Tennessee, JLL Privatization Scheme

Dozens of Communications Workers Of America members in Pittsburgh Tuesday for the union’s national convention marched outside offices of real estate giant JLL to protest the privatization of service jobs at state-owned college campuses in Tennessee. Diana Moyer is President of United Campus Workers, UCW-CWA Local 3865:

Missouri AFL-CIO Has The Petition Signatures For A ‘People’s Veto’ Election On Anti-Union Law

Missouri AFL-CIO President Mike Louis says enough petition signatures have been collected to give Missouri voters a “people’s veto” on the so-called “Right To Work’ anti-worker law. Louis says over 112,000 – more than enough signatures – are already collected to give all Missouris voters a chance to override their government on this issue.

A Worker’s Call To Arms – Time To Go To War To Save The Labor Movement

CWA President Chris Shelton is sounding a worker’s call to arms to go to war to save the labor movement.

Chris Shelton: “We are at war. A war to save the labor movement. In a war there are no neutrals. To paraphrase the old union song, in times like these every working person must decide which side you are on.”

This Is ‘One Of The Nastiest Anti-Union Campaigns In Modern Labor History’

Foxconn Comes To Wisconsin

The Foxconn Company formally announced that it intended to invest as much as 10 billion dollars to build a flat panel display plant in Wisconsin. Not just anywhere but in Paul Ryan’s district.

Nissan Worker Says ‘We’ve Got The Numbers” To Win Union Election

Nissan worker Christopher Milton says Nissan’s anti-union fear campaign is backfiring on them. Nissan workers in Canton Mississippi are voting Thursday and Friday on whether to join the United Auto Workers.

Christopher Milton: “Right now Nissan has got a campaign, a anti-union campaign goin’ on. And every day in our startup meetings there’s somethin’ over our monitors tryin’ to get everybody to vote no.

Organizing in Digital Media Continues to Grow: Worker Wins

38,000 Disney Union Workers Seek Higher Minimum Wage – Talks Set For August 28th

If a workers’ committee approves Wednesday, unions representing 38,000 Florida Disney workers will re-open their 2014 labor contract to seek a higher minimum wage.

Negotiations to increased the Disney minimum wage from the current $10 an hour are scheduled August 28th.

Which Side Are They On? Trump’s GOP Is Blocking Wage Hikes For 20.7 Million Workers

If Trump’s Republicans were serious about lifting a finger to help working people they would immediately vote to raise the minimum wage.

That’s because in the 21 states with $7.25 an hour minimum wage, an average of 36.8 percent of the workforce would get raises IF the minimum wage were raised.

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