Brothers and Sisters,Last week I attended the annual AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Florida. This meeting brought together union leaders from across the country and served as a catalyst to address many of the challenges we face as workers in the middle class today. Most importantly, it created the opportunity to adopt numerous policy statements…
Tag: Workers Rights are Human Rights
Dear Governor…
American workers have a word for the Governors across the country who are attacking workers’ rights- you have disrespected our communities and we are united in stopping this affront to democracy and human rights. [youtube Ru7HthSFtJM]
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.…
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…