May 9, 2011 UPDATE By the TWU Department of Strategic Planning The following report provides details on some of the unlawful attacks on workers’ human rights that are being carried out in various states now. It also identifies the TWU Locals in those states, and discusses our strategic interests in the ways workers and…
Category: Politics
In Face of Right Wing Assault, TWU Helps Stop Worker Gag Bill in Florida
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…
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.…
TWU 2011 Cope Conference
We are in a fight for the soul of our workplaces and our democracy, Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller told the TWU COPE Legislative Conference in a video address that began the third day of the conference on April 6. “As we organize together side by side to take back our democracy and to take…
Veto HB 1593!
HB 1593 PASSES THE SENATE CALL THE GOVERNOR HB 1593 passed Tuesday, April 19th on the Senate Floor. The bill cannot go to the governor’s desk until this Friday evening for her signature. Please call Governor Fallin’s office At (405) 521-2342 And ask her to VETO HB 1593 POSTING-PDF
URGENT! HB 1593 Update
HB 1593, that would strip collective bargaining from Oklahoma Public Employees is still on the Senate agenda to be heard, but as of today it still has not been heard. It could get a hearing tomorrow, next week or anytime in between. If they do not hear it by the close of session on April…
Many Phone Calls about HB1593 and TWU Alert.
But the fact is it has not been voted on yet and remains on the agenda for Monday 4-11-2011 Here is a Link to the Senate Agenda. Please keep calling your Senator and tell him/her to vote against HB 1593. http://www.oksenate.gov/schedule/agenda.html
Local 514 News Alert
HB 1593 The war on the middle class and working families is about political payback. They want to restrict workers’ rights to collective bargaining for a middle class life by cutting wages and benefits. Oklahoma legislators wants to take away collective bargaining for city workers – those workers who make sure you have water, plow…
Union members rally against legislation at Oklahoma state Capitol
Union supporters rallied Monday against legislation they claim would result in union busting. “We cannot sit on the couch and watch our state and our jobs and our rights be stolen from us any longer,” Oklahoma City emergency dispatcher Shannon Nealy told about 400 people gathered outside the state Capitol. “We must take action.” Nealy…