Workers’ Rights are Human Rights activists in the Sunshine State defeated the most outrageous of the avalanche of anti-union bills pressed by Republican state legislators, SB 830, a Worker Gag law championed by Jeb Bush operative John Thrasher, which would have prohibited union dues money from being used for political purposes without similarly limiting corporate…
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TWU Ohio Referendum Drive Surges
On Saturday, May 7, Columbus TWU members hit the streets, setting up shop outside TWU Local 208, where they gathered 250 more signatures to get a referendum on the ballot to VOTE NO on the anti-collective bargaining bill SB 5, and registered 7 more voters. Akron TWU members are planning to duplicate the same success.…
Pennsylvania TWU fights for Jobs, Transit, Education
[youtube YMLEs30EpV0] Scores of TWU members from Pennsylvania joined the noontime rally in Harrisburg, including two busloads of Local 234 members from Philadelphia joined by many other TWU activists who travelled to Harrisburg on their own to hook up with the TWU contingent, wearing Workers Rights are Human Rights t-shirts and carrying signs and banners.…
Threat to Blacks in the Public Sector
By Lee Saunders Reprinted from The Root Posted May 3, 2011 When I was growing up in Cleveland, some of the most respected people in my neighborhood were the folks who worked for the city, county or state. My father was a city bus driver who took great pride in getting people safely to and from…
Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28) and International Workers’ Day (May 1) Kick Off Month to “Imagine No Workers.”
Each year, thousands of workers are killed and millions more are injured or diseased because of their jobs. The unions of the AFL-CIO and people in hundreds of communities will remember these workers this Thursday, April 28, Workers Memorial Day. This Sunday, workers around the world will celebrate May Day, the international workers’ holiday…
Carrying on Dr. King’s Struggle for Justice and Equality
[youtube OWO2IqjCil0] That very vision brought together nearly 500 union activists, including TWU members from around the country, in Cincinnati for the annual AFL-CIO Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance on Jan. 13-17. At a time when Dr. Kings’s dream is being threatened by high unemployment, rising inequality and an attack on workers, the Dr.…