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A month-long effort by UCubed leaders and activists to craft a guiding document for the Ur Union of Unemployed has resulted in a 21-point plan that is unique for priorities it identified, as well as for how the plan was developed. Nearly 450 UCubed activists participated in an online survey to solicit, debate and refine
Read moreExample of oil boom using chain provided by IAM members of Local 1030 in Winona, MN. The members of Winona Chain Makers Lodge 1030 in Winona, MN, have put it in high gear to deliver one million feet of chain for the “booms” used to clean up the Gulf oil spill. The chain is used to
Read moreMembers of the District 140 Bargaining Committee completed a week of intensive training at the William W. Winpisinger Center that included simulated bargaining sessions to better prepare for upcoming negotiations with Aeroguard. The newly elected IAM Negotiating Committee representing employees of Aeroguard at the Vancouver International Airport recently completed negotiation preparation training classes at the
Read moreTransportation GVP Robert Roach, Jr. presents CBTU President Bill Lucy (center) and actor and political activist Danny Glover (left) with IAM ‘Union Strong’ shirts during the 39th International Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). In an unmistakable display of solidarity with Machinists fighting to represent more than 30,000 workers at Delta Airlines,
Read moreReaching out to more than a quarter million unemployed South Carolinians, the Union of Unemployed this week began airing ‘Our Turn,’ a 30-second ad that urges the state’s jobless voters to express their anger and frustration in the upcoming gubernatorial primary election. To view the ad, click here. “The depth of jobs crisis in South
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