…demand for higher wages, clearer paths to promotion, and better protections from extreme temperatures. Read the full story by Duncan Freeman for The Chief-Leader, published February 27, 2024, here: https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/brooklyns-she-wolf-bakery-workers-win-union,51998…
…the wound. TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis called the incident attempted murder. Read the full story by Evan Simko-Bednarski for the Daily News, published February 29, 2024, here: https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/29/mta-train-conductor-slashed-in-neck-in-brooklyn-subway-stop-random-attack/…
…for further changes, the same ones Rahim had been attempting to change for years. Read the full story by Richard Khavkine for The Chief-Leader, published February 27, 2024, here: https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/traffic-agents-union-has-a-new-president,51997…
…They plan to unionize with UAW Local 2179. 100 employees have petitioned the NLRB for official certification. Read the full story by Kirstyn Brendlen for the Brooklyn Paper here: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/workers-nitehawk-cinema-prospect-move-union/…
…and Stellanis. Wage gains, cost-of-living adjustments, and other improvements were wins for the union. Read the full story by Eric D. Lawrence for the Detroit Free Press, published here: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2024/02/21/uaw-spending-millions-organizing-southern-nonunion-auto-plants/72687415007/…
…change. TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis called the assaults, “a new form of terrorism against public servants.” Read the full story by Ben Brachfeld for amNY, published here: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-station-agent-recounts-assault-on-subway-platform-as-union-blasts-new-form-of-terrorism-against-transit-workers/…
…of Michigan AFL-CIO praised the change, saying that it will create stronger unions and a stronger economy. Read the full story by Justin Kent for WILX 10, published here: https://www.wilx.com/2024/02/12/labor-unions-take-another-step-forward-right-to-work-law-repeal-starts-tuesday/…
…and knocked on almost 10,000 doors in Queens, NY, alone. 86 different NYC CLC local union affiliates participated. Read the full story by AFL-CIO NYC CLC News, published here: https://www.nycclc.org/press-release/2024-02/union-members-get-out-vote-queens-elect-labor%E2%80%99s-candidate-tom-suozzi…
…responder protocol, and, three months from the date, the creation of OSHA. Read the full story by Zach Dennis and Nancy Guan for the Savannah Morning News, published here: https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/local/2024/02/05/residents-of-woodbine-georgia-remember-thiokol-explosion-53-years-later/72472010007/…
…airline CEOs’ astronomical compensation and corporate greed are a major part of the equation. Read the full story by Mark Gruenberg for People’s World, published February 14, 2024, here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/flight-attendants-forced-into-one-day-nationwide-strike/…
