Psychiatric nurses at Legacy’s Unity Center vote overwhelmingly to unionize
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Wayfair Employees Walk Out
As conditions worsen in detention camps along the border, the US Government is racing to find simple household items to bring some humanity to the camps. Recent reports have said that children are being kept in separate camps from their adult relatives, are being denied basic items like toothbrushes and soap, and are being forced to sleep on concrete floors.
The Uber/Lyft Sleight of Hand on AB 5 and Dynamex
When corporations violate the law by calling some workers “independent contractors” instead of recognizing them as employees, those workers are denied a host of fundamental protections like a minimum wage, overtime pay, unemployment insurance and workers’ comp. Without these protections, working people are living on the edge. Every single day.
Stop the War on Working People: In the States Roundup
It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on Twitter.
On Eve of Union Vote, Chattanooga VW Workers Describe Rampant Workplace Injuries
Pro-union workers leafleted at the plant gates as the
More heat for Boeing from both Washingtons on union firings
All seven Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington state have written Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and Robert Martinez Jr., President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), seeking more information about reports of the aerospace company firing union supporters at its South Carolina manufacturing plant and expressing the U.S.
20% Raises for Southwest Airlines Union
Dallas Morning News reports that the mechanics union approved big raises and bonuses
Teamsters Oppose Letting Teens Drive Big Rigs
The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa about a proposed federal pilot program that would allow drivers as young as 18 to transport goods via trucks in interstate commerce.
Is Your Car Made in the USA?
UAW explains how to tell through your VIN
It’s often hard for the average consumer to know where the products he or she buys are made. That’s because many manufacturers go to great lengths to hide the fact that their products are not made in the USA by workers making a decent wage.
The NLRB is on the Warpath Against Unions
PATCO Strikebreaker Peter Robb is looking to use the board to limit unions power and prosecute small mistakes.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established to stand up for workers, but Trump’s appointees are now on the warpath against unions.