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  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: New Jersey AFL-CIO: RWDSU Members Picket over Stalled Talks at Nursing Home
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: New Jersey AFL-CIO: RWDSU Members Picket over Stalled Talks at Nursing Home Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO reports that members of the Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Local 108, joined in solidarity by officers of the state federation and officers and members of allied unions, held an informational picket on Saturday, July 24, while contract talks are stalled with Complete Care Management, the new owner of several nursing homes in New Jersey. RWDSU Local 108’s members, who deliver attentive and compassionate care to the ill and aged, picketed at Complete Care’s Burlington Woods nursing home in Burlington to explain how the new management aims to drastically reduce their future paid time off, wipe out the time off they accumulated during 16 months of tireless work during the pandemic, and provide them with substandard medical coverage. Local 108 requests that contract talks resume promptly and that Complete Care Management bargains in good faith. Kenneth Quinnell Tue, 08/03/2021 - 11:24 Tags: COVID-19, Community Service — Aug 3
  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Texas AFL-CIO Launches Groundbreaking Climate Jobs Project
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Texas AFL-CIO Launches Groundbreaking Climate Jobs Project Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The Texas Climate Jobs Project, a major new program at the Texas AFL-CIO, launched Tuesday with the publication of a 55-page report that sets the goal to create more than 1.1 million solid middle-class jobs in the coming years in wind and solar generation while protecting the livelihoods of workers transitioning from fossil fuel work. The report offers proposals aimed at “intersecting crises” of the pandemic, income inequality and the worsening climate crisis. It is the work product of a proactive group of 27 unions representing a cross section of the labor movement in Texas, including unions that include a range of energy industry workers. “Texans are facing several converging crises: a changing climate that is hurting working people first and worst, skyrocketing income inequality, and deep racial injustice,” said Rick Levy (TSEU/CWA), president of the Texas AFL-CIO. “Today, the Texas labor movement is coming together to endorse an historic proposal that would tackle these crises by creating good union jobs across our state and combating climate breakdown. As the unions that power the energy capital of America, we believe the Texas Climate Jobs Project can lead the way on transforming our economy….We must make sure that the workers who have powered this state for generations are not left behind.” Kenneth Quinnell Mon, 08/02/2021 - 09:32 — Aug 2
  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Entertainment Unions and Producers Agree to Changes to COVID-19 Protocols
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Entertainment Unions and Producers Agree to Changes to COVID-19 Protocols Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. With the ongoing goal of keeping casts, crews and all set workers safe, the Directors Guild of America (DGA), Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Teamsters (IBT) and the Basic Crafts, and SAG-AFTRA, together with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), announced last week they have a tentative agreement on adjustments to the COVID-19 Safety Agreement reflecting vaccines and other scientific advances. The modifications center on workplace practices for fully vaccinated cast and crew, including changes to outdoor masking requirements and updated mealtime protocols. Additional changes, such as adjustments to testing frequency, are included for certain areas in the United States and Canada where COVID-19 incidence is, and remains, very low. Kenneth Quinnell Fri, 07/30/2021 - 09:38 Tags: COVID-19, Community Service — Jul 30
  • Tenacity and Grit: What Working People Are Doing This Week
    Tenacity and Grit: What Working People Are Doing This Week Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week. Actors' Equity: AFGE: AFSCME: Alliance for Retired Americans: Amalgamated Transit Union: American Federation of Musicians: American Federation of Teachers: American Postal Workers Union: Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance: Association of Flight Attendants-CWA: Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers: Boilermakers: Bricklayers: Communications Workers of America: Department for Professional Employees: Electrical Workers: Fire Fighters: Heat and Frost Insulators: International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers: International Labor Communications Association: Jobs With Justice: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement: Laborers: Machinists: Metal Trades Department: Mine Workers: Musical Artists: National Air Traffic Controllers Association: National Association of Letter Carriers: National Day Laborer Organizing Network: National Domestic Workers Alliance: National Federation of Federal Employees: National Nurses United: National Taxi Workers Alliance: NFL Players Association: North America's Building Trades Unions: Office and Professional Employees: Painters and Allied Trades: Plasterers and Cement Masons: Professional Aviation Safety Specialists: Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union: Roofers and Waterproofers: SAG-AFTRA: Seafarers: Solidarity Center: The NewsGuild-CWA: Theatrical Stage Employees: Transport Workers Union: Transportation Trades Department: UAW: Union Veterans Council: UNITE HERE: United Food and Commercial Workers: United Steelworkers: Utility Workers: Working America: Writers Guild of America, East: Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 07/29/2021 - 14:09 — Jul 29
  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Delaware AFL-CIO: Gov. Carney Signs Bill Increasing State Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Delaware AFL-CIO: Gov. Carney Signs Bill Increasing State Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The Delaware AFL-CIO reports that on Monday, July 19, alongside labor leaders, advocates and members of the General Assembly, Governor John Carney signed legislation to gradually increase Delaware’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. The bill was sponsored by state Sen. Jack Walsh and Sen. Gerald Brady, who gathered with the state federation on Monday to announce the momentous bill. “Today is a reason to celebrate. On behalf of the Delaware AFL-CIO, we congratulate Governor Carney signing S. 15, increasing the minimum wage for Delaware’s working families,” said Delaware AFL-CIO President James Maravelias during the signing. “The labor movement has long advocated that working people share in the wealth we help create and our incomes should rise with increased productivity,” he said. “Increasing the state minimum wage is a positive step in that direction [and] benefits all Delawareans.” Read more about the bill here. Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 07/29/2021 - 10:39 Tags: COVID-19, Community Service — Jul 29

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