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加入登录入口2021年劳动节庆祝活动

As the COVID-19 vaccine continues its successful rollout out and in-person gatherings with our Union family are beginning to feel safer and sa

莉兹·舒勒当选美国188体育平台主席

美国188体育平台执行委员会今天选出了莉兹·舒勒, 有远见的领袖和长期的工会主义者, to serve as president of the federation of 56 unions and 12.500万个成员. Shuler is the first woman to hold the office in the history of the labor federation. The Executive Council also elected United Steelworkers (USW) International Vice President Fred Redmond to succeed Shuler as secretary-treasurer, 第一位非洲裔美国人担任二把手. Tefere Gebre将继续担任执行副总裁, rounding out the most diverse team of officers ever to lead the 188体育平台.

Amazon's Anti-Union Blitz Stalks Alabama Warehouse Workers Everywhere, Even the Bathroom

亚马逊就是大白鲸, a target that labor groups have longed for years to organize, Richard Trumka说, 188体育平台主席, which is providing personnel and strategic guidance to aid the RWDSU. “We’ll give them whatever they need to help them win,” Trumka said. “这是一个非常非常重要的驱动力.”

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约翰J. 斯威尼(1934-2021)，美国188体育平台名誉主席

John 斯威尼, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 享年86岁. 斯威尼 was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression. His parents, James and Agnes 斯威尼, worked as a bus driver and a domestic worker, respectively. 斯威尼 always understood the struggles and the pride of working people.

How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

“这场大流行进一步扩大了[公众支持]. 这表明没有工会的工人是多么无助. They couldn’t even get PPE and unions were able to get it for them,” says Trumka. “For years and years and years, people that we call ‘essential workers’ were invisible. 就好像没有人知道他们的存在一样. They did their jobs every day to keep the country and the economy going.

Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

像理查德·特拉姆卡这样的主要劳工领袖, 188体育平台主席, are more optimistic about the prospects for organized labor than they’ve been in many years. “我知道他是什么人. 乔·拜登是个蓝领,特拉姆卡说, who like Biden is from a working-class area in Pennsylvania and has known the president for 40 years. “他了解劳动人民, 薪水的重要性, 工作中健康和安全的重要性, 工会的重要性 .这些他都明白. 这不是他在民意调查中得到的. 这是他的信念.”

UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of 公共 Health; 联盟+ Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

The 2021 联盟+ Scholarship application deadline is this Sunday, Jan. 31. 联盟加奖学金项目 awards scholarships based on outstanding academic achievement, 个人性格, financial need and commitment to the values of organized labor. 联盟+ Scholarship awards are granted to students attending a two-year college, 四年制大学, 研究生院, 或公认的技术或贸易学校.

Report: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’

188体育平台秘书兼财务主管利兹·舒勒说, its Rooney Rule proposal is “clearly workable” as evidenced by other big companies that have adopted similar policies. “Diversity and inclusion at all levels is important for companies to succeed, particularly in industries where there has been a historic underrepresentation of women and minorities in senior level positions,舒勒在电子邮件中告诉Kotaku. “We are pleased that many banks have adopted diverse candidate search policies, 登录入口现在把注意力转向科技公司.

拜登和国会能做些什么来支持工会

在上届国会中, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the US House of Representatives passed the most significant worker empowerment legislation since the Great Depression by creating a much fairer process for forming a union. It is called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act. 此前反对工人的多数派在参议院否决了该法案, 重新引入PRO Act, passing it in both chambers of Congress and getting Biden's signature is vital to our economic recovery. The PRO Act would protect and empower workers to exercise their freedom to organize and bargain.

亚马逊联盟运动在不太可能的地方站稳了脚跟

最大的, most viable effort to unionize Amazon in many years began last summer not in a union stronghold like New York or Michigan, 而是在伯明翰郊外的费尔菲尔德旅馆, 阿拉巴马州的工作权法案. It was late in the summer and a group of employees from a nearby Amazon warehouse contacted an organizer in the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union. 他们受够了, 他们说, with the way the online retailer tracked their productivity, 想讨论成立工会的问题.