New York, NY – On January 30, many were struck by the tragic suicide of 30 year-old television correspondent and 2019 Miss USA, Cheslie Kryst. Ben Kimmel. Kryst’s family released…
…workers on those contracts. It does not cover projects financed through grants to non-federal entities, and there are exceptions for emergencies. Speaking at Ironworkers Local 5’s hall in Upper Marlboro,…
New York, NY – The good news for workers struggling to become the first group of Amazon workers in the nation to successfully unionize is they’re getting another chance to…
…Kate Denend, a sales specialist in the camp department, told news outlets REI workers want full-time status and benefits, COVID-19 protections and guaranteed hours after the holiday season. She also…
…hard on everybody — it’s still hard on everybody. We talked about it today — he would have been [safely] at home [that night] if we were working.” The two-month-old…
…the Texas AFL-CIO,” the federation said in its news digest. Texas AFL-CIO membership has held steady at between 235,000 and 240,000 for several years, it said. Last year, according to…
…International President Sean O’Brien. Its members are public defenders in Minnesota, vegetable workers in California, sanitation workers in New York, brewers in St. Louis, newspaper workers in Seattle, construction workers…
…York City construction workers to help the fire victims. Christine Culpepper-Ruiz, from Local 79, and Danny Monge, from Local 638, led this volunteer effort and asked me to be the…
…Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet and many others. He served as an AFM International Executive Board member from 2010 to 2019 and served on the finance, electronic…
New York, NY – Harold “Sonny” Hall, former president of TWU Local 100 and the International Union passed away in his sleep in hospice care on Jan. 13. He was…
