…Reps. John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, and Ed Koch. Ben Kearney is a Policy Analyst and Writer at Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change. Robert Weiner Ben Kearney…
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have triumphed by reaching a five-year tentative agreement with Anheuser-Busch. The agreement significantly raises pay, improves health care and retirement benefits, and provides critical job…
…union-busting techniques such as “captive audience meetings,” that isolate workers and force anti-union propaganda and lies on them. According to workers, after their unionization petition was announced in mid-January, managers…
…conductor’s window of a Far-Rockaway-bound A train at the Rockaway Ave. stop in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, NY, a man attacked him, slashing him in the neck, possibly with a box-cutter….
CWA Local 1182, the traffic agents’ union, has ousted its long-time president. Former president Syed Rahim, besieged by allegations of sexual harassment and findings of financial improprieties within the union,…
Brooklyn, NY workers who are employees of the Nitehawk Cinema in Park Slope have announced their intention to unionize. 20 employees made the declaration at a managers’ meeting. Issues include…
…and Stellanis. Wage gains, cost-of-living adjustments, and other improvements were wins for the union. Read the full story by Eric D. Lawrence for the Detroit Free Press, published here: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2024/02/21/uaw-spending-millions-organizing-southern-nonunion-auto-plants/72687415007/…
…change. TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis called the assaults, “a new form of terrorism against public servants.” Read the full story by Ben Brachfeld for amNY, published here: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-station-agent-recounts-assault-on-subway-platform-as-union-blasts-new-form-of-terrorism-against-transit-workers/…
…of Michigan AFL-CIO praised the change, saying that it will create stronger unions and a stronger economy. Read the full story by Justin Kent for WILX 10, published here: https://www.wilx.com/2024/02/12/labor-unions-take-another-step-forward-right-to-work-law-repeal-starts-tuesday/…
…“a strong middle class.” New York City union members made over 50,000 calls and knocked on almost 10,000 doors in Queens, NY, alone. 86 different NYC CLC local union affiliates…
