Expand Social Security
MoveOn.org
05/18/2015
We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.
Labor Movement
Building a Stewards Council
Labor Notes
05/13/2015
Want a stronger union at work? Consider building a stewards council.
With only five stewards for 1,700 workers, demoralization was high at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Fired Disney World performers win arbitration over sweaty costumes
News 13
05/06/2015
Three Walt Disney World performers who were fired from the Festival of the Lion King show at Disney's Animal Kingdom after refusing to wear sweaty, soiled costumes will get their jobs back after winning an arbitration case.
Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers and no one knows why
Business Insider
04/23/2015
Wal-Mart suddenly closed five stores in four states on Monday for alleged plumbing problems.
Teamsters & the Fight for $15
April 17, 2015: Teamsters and TDU members joined a national day of action to fight for living wages. UPS Teamsters in New York made a splash in joining the Fight for $15.
Target Becomes the Latest Big Box Retailer to Raise Workers’ Wages
In These Times
03/23/2015
Starting next month, Target will raise its minimum wage to $9 an hour. Sound familiar? That's because Target’s decision comes just one month after its competitor Walmart said it would raise its starting wage to $9 and eventually $10 per hour. T.J. Maxx and Marshalls have also announced a new $9 an hour base. These minimum wage increases reflect an improving economy and the impact of widespread protest through campaigns like the fast food strikes and OUR Walmart.
A Smart Strategy to Defeat ‘Right to Work’
Labor Notes
03/17/2015
Wisconsin is now the 25th state to adopt a so-called “right-to-work” law, which allows workers to benefit from collective bargaining without having to pay for it.
How Unions Can Grow Stronger in the Wake of Right To Work
In These Times
03/16/2015
The late February snow fell lazily on several thousand Wisconsin union members as they gathered on the steps of the capitol building in Madison to protest what picket signs denounced as “the war on workers.”
California FedEx Terminal Goes Teamster
March 16, 2015: On March 13, FedEx drivers at the Stockton terminal voted 33-12 to join the Teamsters Union – the fourth FedEx terminal to say Yes to going union. Congrats to the new FedEx Teamsters and to Local 439 and the members who helped make it happen.
Louisville Local 89 Picket Stops Subcontracting
March 12, 2015: When Teamster Local 89 investigated and found out that Holland was bringing in low-paid contractors to do city delivery work, they took creative action – and in less than one hour, YRCW management decided the contractors would leave empty.
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