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Los Angeles Area Environmental Enforcement Collaborative receives $100,000 for environmental justice
November 18, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced a national initiative to address environmental justice challenges in 10 communities. EPA has committed $1 million to this effort over the next two years.
"These 10 communities will serve as models f...
November 18, 2009
LA Labor 411: Union Directory to help public make ethical consumer choices when purchasing goods and services.
Los Angeles – Today the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO released the second edition of its popular, LA Labor 411, a directory of union goods and services, that this ye...
November 06, 2009
Workers at multinational giant DHL will be challenging the company to open dialogue and honour its promises of fair treatment for all employees as part of a worldwide week of action next week, 9 to 13 November 2009.
Featuring activities ranging from meetings with management to demonstrations outs...
November 06, 2009
Pro-worker candidates win 66 of 92 races; nine anti-worker incumbents ousted from mayor´s office, city councils and boards in San Gabriel Valley.
LOS ANGELES – A five-week intensive get-out-the-vote effort by working families pushed 14 pro-worker candidates to victory in the San Gab...
October 30, 2009
Say not-for-profit puts profits over patients, employees.
San Francisco – Hundreds of hospital workers from St. Luke´s Hospital – a campus of one of Sutter Health´s most successful medical centers – picketed to draw attention to Sutter Health´s Wall Street mentality and to...
October 28, 2009
Employees at Seton Medical Center and Seton Coastside approve agreement with higher wages, improved benefits.
Daly City/Moss Beach, CA – Hospital workers at five Daughters of Charity Hospitals – including Seton Medical Center in Daly City and Seton Coastside in Moss Beach – voted resoundingly ...
October 23, 2009
Employees at O´Connor Hospital in San Jose reach agreement with higher wages, better benefits.
San Jose, CA – Hospital workers at five Daughters of Charity Hospitals – including O´Connor Hospital in San Jose – are voting today and tomorrow on a new contract that improves their wage...
October 01, 2009
Seniors, people with disabilities who rely on IHSS Services face a humanitarian disaster, say advocates.
San Francisco – Several individuals needing critical assistance to remain safely in their homes, advocates for seniors and people with disabilities, and the unions whose members provide car...
September 08, 2009
Creation and Protection of Good Jobs is Key to rebuilding our economy.
Los Angeles – Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Executive Secretary-Treasurer Maria Elena Durazo issued the following statement today about Labor Day:
"As the devastating fires rage on in our sta...
September 01, 2009
Reject Sutter Management´s attempt to divide workers.
Roseville, CA – Service and technical workers at Sutter Roseville Medical Center, including housekeeping, radiology technicians, operating room technicians, certified nursing assistants and others stood up in the face of management t...
August 20, 2009
Oakland/Pasadena - Hundreds of SEIU-UHW health care workers held simultaneous rallies at Kaiser Permanente´s Regional Offices in Oakland and Pasadena, which culminated in workers providing management with notice of their intent to picket at Kaiser hospitals and clinics across California to pro...
AFL-CIO President, Rep. Judy Chu, Workers Shut Down Hollywood Blvd in Support of LA Car Wash Workers
August 21, 2009
National AFL-CIO President, Congresswoman Chu, Labor Leaders and Workers Shut Down Hollywood Blvd in Support of LA Carwash Workers.
HUNDREDS GATHERED TO PROTEST RIGHTS ABUSES AT CARWASHES
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney today joined Congresswoman Judy Chu, community leaders and hundreds o...
August 20, 2009
Plaintiffs, Cintas agree to arbitrator´s recommended settlement in driver overtime case.
San Jose, CA – This week hundreds of delivery drivers at the nation´s largest uniform provider, Cintas, were notified a $22.75 million settlement agreement had been reached in the class action ...
August 18, 2009
Hundreds of Airport Workers to Demand that Airport Concessionaire Delaware North be Denied New Airport Concessions Contracts.
Los Angeles - Over 400 LAX and Ontario airport concession workers packed the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners meeting today demanding that any companies that...
August 07, 2009
Disney Hotel Workers Pledge to Continue Fight to Keep Health Care Affordable.
Anaheim - A majority of Disney hotel workers voted to reject Disney's most recent contract proposal that would have made health insurance largely unaffordable for many of the workers employed at the three Disney owned...
August 05, 2009
UHW-SEIU members deliver message directly to management, they want a fair contract ensuring quality care.
Palo Alto, CA - In a show of unity yesterday, more than 70 healthcare workers at Stanford Hospital and sister facility Lucille Packard Children's Hospital – joined by State Assembly Member I...
July 22, 2009
Los Angeles – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO´s delegate body issued their endorsements Monday for the upcoming special elections in September. Endorsements were made for the upcoming special elections for State Assembly District 51 and Los Angeles City Council District 2.
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July 22, 2009
A delegation of workers and community supporters will visit the West LA offices of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and wealthy investor Jonathan Sokoloff this Thursday morning at 11:00 am to seek justice on behalf of 600 warehouse workers who are employed by the Rite Aid drugstore chain. Management h...
July 21, 2009
State reaffirms SEIU-UHW victory in Fresno County home care election.
FRESNO, Calif. - The State of California has re-affirmed the results of the June 19 victory of SEIU-UHW in the Fresno County home care election, rejecting all claims made by NUHW about the vote count, including its request ...
July 17, 2009
Three-year agreement features pay increases and benefit improvements.
HAYWARD – Employees who work at the Tiburcio Vazquez Health Clinics overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract today. The vote, which was 94 to 1, comes after a strong unity campaign among the SEIU-UHW members, which incl...
July 17, 2009
Fresno County home care workers won an important legal battle Thursday. SEIU lawyers appeared before the Fresno County Superior Court and succeeded in their request that the Court issue a temporary restraining order requiring the County to maintain pre-July 1 IHSS wages and benefits for IHSS workers...
July 16, 2009
As Congress prepares to debate the Employee Free Choice Act, report finds that families benefit from unionization.
Berkeley, CA – Unions have a positive impact on family-friendly workplace policies like paid family leave, paid sick days, family health insurance, and child-care benefits, accordi...
July 16, 2009
Episcopal Delegates Pledge Not to Return to Disney if Workers Call for a Boycott in their Fight for Affordable Health Insurance.
Anaheim - Hundreds of delegates of the National Episcopalian Convention taking place in Anaheim this week took to the streets yesterday with hundreds of Disney work...
July 14, 2009
SEIU deals Governor's wage cuts for home care workers one more legal blow.
OAKLAND - California home care recipients, care providers and their union, SEIU, are hailing another legal victory in their campaign to prevent the Schwarzenegger Administration from cutting In-Home Supportive Services ...
July 10, 2009
Episcopal Delegates Pledge Not to Return to Disney if Workers Call for a Boycott in their Fight for Affordable Health Insurance.
2,300 Disney hotel workers employed as restaurant servers, dishwashers, housekeepers, front desk agents, and bellmen at the three Disneyland Hotels, Paradise Pier Hot...
June 30, 2009
Chicago – In the second day of UNITE HERE´s convention, delegates from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada elected John Wilhelm as the union´s President. President Wilhelm was elected to a five-year term along with 18 other union officers. The convention delegates also vo...
June 17, 2009
Union Contract Expirations Loom for 11,000 Tourism Workers at LA Hotels and LAX--Workers Demand Good Jobs to Help Rebuild the Los Angeles Economy.
As Los Angeles enters the height of the tourism season, union contracts that mandate good wages, guaranteed wage increases, free family health insur...
June 03, 2009
AGENCY ENFORCES "CARWASH WORKER LAW" AS BILL TO RENEW THE LAW GAINS GROUND.
Los Angeles —The California Labor Commissioner has filed a lawsuit to close nine carwashes operating illegally, including six washes in Los Angeles. The lawsuit coincided with a vote by the California Assembly to...
June 02, 2009
City of Los Angeles Issues Notice to Correct to Airport Concessionaire-Delaware North for Possible Living Wage Law Violations.
Los Angeles - On Friday May 29th, The City of Los Angeles' Office of Contract Compliance (OCC), issued a 'Notice to Correct' to Delaware North, for possible violation...
May 30, 2009
LAW HELPS IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT, BRINGS IN FUNDS TO STATE DURING BUDGET CRISIS.
Sacramento — This Thursday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee passed AB 236, a bill to renew the state´s "Carwash Worker Law," and the legislation will now move on to a vote by the full Assembly. The ...
May 30, 2009
Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Sally Field and Tom Hanks Sign Statement of Support for a
YES Vote on the Tentative TV/Theatrical Agreements.
Los Angeles - Screen Actors Guild has announced the names of 500 members who are among the first to sign SAG´s new "Statement of Support" in securi...
May 30, 2009
Unlicensed pool contractors among those busted in two-day undercover sting
SACRAMENTO – The Contractors State License Board´s (CSLB) Statewide Investigative Fraud Team (SWIFT) jumped in to aid a swimming pool contractor who was tired of losing jobs to unlicensed bidders. That contractor prov...
May 30, 2009
Longshore union leaders, representing over 15,000 workers at the Ports of LA and Long Beach are raising concerns about LA City Councilmember Janice Hahn´s last-minute objections to a harbor dredging project that has been carefully planned over the past five years.
"Janice Hahn has been...
May 15, 2009
Teach-In on Capitol Hill Showcases National Economics and "Home Economics;" Stories from 11-State Bus Tour on the Future of 7.2 million Auto-Related Jobs in America.
Washington, D.C. - From May 11 to May 14, thousands of workers whose paychecks are tied to the U.S. auto industry joined bus tour...
May 14, 2009
Registered Nurse union member highlights need for protections in the workplace for health care professionals.
Washington, D.C. - Miguel Garcia, a Registered Nurse (RN) member of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), testified on Thursday,...
CLEAN Carwash Campaign Applauds California Labor Commissioner´s Efforts to Clean Up Carwash Industry
May 07, 2009
Five Pirian Family-Owned Carwashes Investigated and Ordered to Discontinue Labor Violations.
Los Angeles — The Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (CWOC-USW) and CLEAN — the Community, Labor, Environmental Action Network—welcome California Labor Co...
May 06, 2009
Feinstein remains lone member of the CA Congressional Delegation not supporting the legislation which would help American workers move out of poverty.
Starting at noon today, workers and community leaders in Los Angeles will take part in a day long/overnight vigil at the Federal Building in Do...
May 03, 2009
Local Students Donate Safety Equipment to Carwash Workers to Highlight Human Rights Issues.
Los Angeles — Last Tuesday, 12th graders from Wildwood School in Los Angeles joined a diverse group of carwash workers, college students, and members of CLEAN, the Community-Labor-Environmenta...
May 02, 2009
In recent months, we have witnessed billions of dollars pumped into the financial institutions WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Reckless behavior and greed have been graced with the most extravagant rewards, allowing the rich to get even richer. After receiving their bailout, A.I.G. executives resumed thei...
April 28, 2009
Taxpayer Shareholders to Demand Bank of America Fire CEO Ken Lewis. Hundreds To Hold Rally at Bank of America Plaza as Part of Nationwide Demonstration Against Bank´s Opposition to Workers´ Rights, Anti-Consumer Business Practices.
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Council is expec...
April 20, 2009
13 months of prolonged negotiations ends in a clear vote by nurses to ratify their first union contract, which will restore 5% pay cut by management and guarantee nurses a voice in the workplace.
Riverside, CA - On Friday Parkview Community Hospital Registered Nurses (RN) voted to ratify their ...
April 16, 2009
Nurses union officer advocates for comprehensive health care reform to address health care quality issues, improve access to patient care and meet the ongoing demand for nurses.
Sacramento, CA – Barbara Blake, RN, state secretary for the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health ...
Radisson LAX Signs Union Contract Becoming Fourth LAX Hotel to Become Union on the ' New Century' Bl
April 16, 2009
City Councilmembers, Community Leaders, Faith Leaders and Hotel Workers-'Union Contracts Best Economic Stimulus Package.'
Los Angeles - On Monday April 13h, in the middle of the deepest economic recession in this country in 50 years, the Radisson LAX hotel signed a union contract giving significa...
April 16, 2009
NURSES UNION PROMOTES LANDMARK REPORTING FOR NONPROFIT HOSPITALS UNAC/UHCP supports new reporting requirement for non-profit hospitals that for the first time will provide data on charity care on a cost basis.
Sacramento, CA – Representatives from the United Nurses Associations of California/Un...
April 10, 2009
On Monday April 13th the Radisson LAX will become the fourth hotel on the LAX corridor to sign a union contract. Of the five hotels that were part of UNITE HERE's Local 11 Hotel Worker Rising campaign, only the LAX Hilton remains non-union. Three other hotels have signed union contracts covering n...
April 01, 2009
If you live in the Los Angeles, area, tune in to Channel 34 at 5 pm tonight to watch Primer Impacto, Univision´s award-winning national news program. The segment, an investigative report on the dangerous conditions port drivers face, reveals daily life for this mostly immigrant workforce, and ...
March 06, 2009
84 percent in favor; only 4 percent strongly oppose.
WASHINGTON – Americans overwhelmingly support federal requirements for American-made materials in all federally funded infrastructure investment in the 2009 economic recovery bill, according to a random survey of 1,001 U.S. adults conducted J...
February 26, 2009
Superior Court Judge Tosses Out County Legal Case Against Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS) And Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS)To Overturn 3% At 50 Pension Benefit For Deputies.
LOS ANGELES – Rejecting legal arguments by the County of Orange that Deputy Sher...
February 23, 2009
Health and Safety Experts Warn of Serious Risks to Carwash Workers of Heat Illness, Toxic Exposure, and Electrical Hazards.
Los Angeles – Cal/OSHA has issued $18,890 in citations for health and safety violations against the owners of Auto Spa Express Car Wash, located at 2028 W. Sunset Blvd ...
February 17, 2009
The public is encouraged to support businesses who provide good jobs by visiting www.lalabor411.com or www.launionaflcio.org.
LA Labor 411, a collaborative project of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and Senders Communication Group, today announced the launch of the on-line...
February 06, 2009
Community Members and Faith Leaders Stand with Workers to Protect Health Insurance and Living Wages.
Anaheim - 150 hotel workers were joined by faith leaders and community members as they delivered a petition to Disney management overwhelmingly rejecting the company's latest contract proposal...
January 05, 2009
Anaheim - UNITE HERE Local 11 has launched www.disneyisunfaithful.org, a blog created to document how Disney is being unfaithful to workers, communities and customers around the world. The website exposes Disney's deteriorating wages for employees and the impact this has on the Anaheim and Orlando ...
December 01, 2008
Los Angeles – Carwash workers in Los Angeles won an important first step in their legal struggle with a Hollywood carwash owner. After an extensive investigation of charges filed by the carwash workers union, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has filed a formal complaint alle...
November 25, 2008
George Washington University Hospital sees centralization of communication with staff, visitors and patients pays off.
New York – In Washington, DC, The George Washington University Hospital´s (GWUH) internal survey shows employee satisfaction with hospital communication increased by 33 p...
November 20, 2008
Three Workers Fired at Vermont Hand Wash After Organizing to Improve Workplace Conditions.
LOS ANGELES — Today, religious leaders and community members held a vigil for carwash workers who support a union at Vermont Hand Wash and have recently been fired by their employer. Faith leaders...
November 19, 2008
The Carwash Worker Organizing Committee (CWOC) and the Clean Carwash Campaign applaud California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet's announcement today that 60 employees of the Bruno Scherrer Corporation working at its Hollywood Riviera carwash in Redondo Beach will receive $450,000 in unpaid wag...
November 02, 2008
WASHINGTON - As the historic economic crisis forces more American families to rely on school-based food programs, SEIU and UNITE-HERE, which together represent more than 250,000 workers in early care and education settings nationwide, are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Congress to...
October 22, 2008
Los Angeles — The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors meeting in Los Angeles Saturday, October 18, approved a proposed agreement outlining conditions to permit joint bargaining with AFTRA for the Commercials Contracts under the terms of the Phase 1 agreement.
The AFL-CIO and it...
October 16, 2008
Over 400 California professors and other academic staff today sent a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to protest his line-item veto of labor research and education programs at the University of California, and urge him to restore funding to these programs. "California working families are s...
October 10, 2008
Los Angeles – The Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters joined workers on the steps of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to announce their support for Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas in the November 4th election for a new Los Angeles County Supervisor.
The League is the newest membe...
October 09, 2008
Carwash with City Contract Has Failed to Pay Even the Minimum Wage.
Los Angeles — Carwash workers and their allies gathered on the steps of City Hall today to announce that their employer should have been paying them the mandated "living wage" since 2006 when the carwash received a con...
October 03, 2008
Hundreds of unionists, supporters expected to rally Monday at trial of black port workers beaten, arrested as they returned to work from lunch at Port of Sacramento.
WOODLAND, Ca. – Bay Area and Valley port workers – who are charging there is a "war of terror" being waged against them – will ho...
September 09, 2008
Mayor Villaraigosa and statewide leaders joined hundreds of workers at Labor Day breakfast.
Los Angeles – Over 500 workers, community leaders and elected officials including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, State Controller John Chiang and Secretary of State ...
August 14, 2008
West Los Angeles College, with the support of the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute has added a new course exploring the social and political history of working people in California through films, literature and poetry. The course, "English 275: California Literature in the California Labor Movement" i...
July 31, 2008
Measure would strengthen the landmark Equal Pay Act.
WASHINGTON – Despite a Presidential veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation today that would help end the discriminatory practice of paying men and women unequally for performing the same job.
By a 247...
July 31, 2008
Sets Stage for First Higher Education Renewal in a Decade.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today gave final approval to an overhaul of our nation´s higher education laws today, advancing key reforms that would address the soaring price of college and remove other...
July 31, 2008
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, along with other House Democrats, introduced legislation last night to prevent the Department of Labor from finalizing a last minute rule that could dramatically weaken future workplace health and safet...
July 31, 2008
Sets Stage for First Higher Education Renewal in a Decade.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today gave final approval to an overhaul of our nation´s higher education laws today, advancing key reforms that would address the soaring price of college and remove other...
July 30, 2008
Replacement Jobs Pay Substantially Less; Data Shows U.S. Advanced Technology Sector Hit Hard by Trade Deficit with China.
WASHINGTON – The increasing U.S. trade deficit with China has cost 2.3 million American jobs between 2001 and 2007, including 366,000 last year alone, according to a study...
July 30, 2008
Historic Resolution Urges Carwash Owners to Negotiate with Workers.
Los Angeles - Today L.A. City Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution in support of the efforts of workers and their supporters to improve conditions in the carwash industry. Members of the Community-Labor-...
July 25, 2008
Health and Safety Experts Warn of Serious Risks of Heat Illness and Toxics Exposure.
Los Angeles – Carwash workers who are part of the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (CWOC-USW) filed complaints today with the California Department of Industrial Relations, Divisi...
July 17, 2008
Worker Organizing to Improve Conditions Allegedly Threatened With Bullets, Machete.
Los Angeles – Carwash workers in L.A. have charged their employer with illegal coercion and harassment, including threats of physical violence, for trying to organize a union and for speaking to press about...
May 09, 2008
As the LA City Council votes on whether to support AB 2716, California´s proposed paid sick days legislation, UC Berkeley report analyzes the legislation´s potential to reduce the transmission of illnesses such as seasonal influenza and norovirus.
Berkeley, CA – AB 2716, a bill that would e...
Inter-Con Security Officers to Launch Strikes at Kaiser Hospitals Across California, Defend Civil Ri
April 25, 2008
Officers Issue 10-Day Notice of Unfair Labor Practice Strike.
Oakland, Calif. - Security officers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals are ramping up their fight against employer Inter-Con, today issuing 10-day notice of an unfair labor practice strike in California to defend their civil rights....
April 01, 2008
SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento City Council will vote Tuesday evening on a proposal to intervene and end the long-running stand-off between Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) and its workers who want to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
A rally and news briefing will be held at 5:...
April 01, 2008
Silicon Valley´s Low-Income Working Moms Take Their Fight for Paid Sick Days to Sacramento: Contingent Will Travel from San Jose to Sacramento in Vans in Order to Meet with Elected Officials. Over 6 Million California Workers Lack Paid Sick Days.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- On Thursday, April 3, 2008, ...
March 31, 2008
On the Anniversary of King´s Assassination, L.A. Workers, Community Leaders Build on His Legacy.
Four decades after Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, an economic think tank reports that African Americans who belong to a union are significantly be...
March 29, 2008
CLEAN Carwash Campaign Launches Series of Actions to Clean Up the Industry.
Los Angeles — Hundreds of protesters gathered at three Hollywood carwashes today to protest what they called dirty business practices by owner Bennie Pirian. Pirian-owned carwashes have been cited for violat...
March 20, 2008
SACRAMENTO – Blue Diamond Almonds – the world´s largest processor of almonds – reportedly has closed down for the rest of week because of concerns about a major protest here organized by a national Latino student group, which is busing more than 500 demonstrators to the plant Friday afternoon.
Th...
March 14, 2008
Union to Represent Workers at L.A. County's Fifth-Largest Hotel,
Parties Pledge to Work Together.
Los Angeles - Workers at the Westin LAX and hotel management announced yesterday that a labor dispute has been resolved, with management accepting the decision by an overwhelming majority of worke...
March 10, 2008
Employees Say Lack of Affordable Healthcare, Job Security,
Workload Protection Make Conditions Intolerable. Clients Including LAUSD Announce They Will Honor Boycott at County's 15th Largest Hotel.
Los Angeles - Workers and community leaders today declared a boycott of the Four Points Sherato...
February 26, 2008
Employees Say Lack of Affordable Health Care, Job Security, Workload Protection Make Conditions Intolerable. Community Leaders Urge Hotel to Negotiate in Good Faith.
Los Angeles — Workers at the Four Points Sheraton LAX today warned of a possible boycott of the hotel unless management agr...
SEIU Healthcare Workers to Appeal During Super Bowl for Free and Fair Union Elections in Boston Hosp
February 03, 2008
Ads to Air on WBCN (CBS) Patriots Radio Network.
BOSTON -- While the Patriots take on the New York Giants in the Super Bowl, Massachusetts healthcare workers will take on the hospital CEOs trying to prevent them from voting freely in fair secret ballot elections to form unions. During Sunday's ...
January 09, 2008
Workers Walk Off The Job After Facing Alleged Retaliation For Testifying in Federal Government Hearing.
Wilshire Plaza Hotel workers walked out on strike Wednesday after facing alleged retaliation by management and other unfair labor practices. The allegations of retaliation included charges t...
November 29, 2007
Alliance Says Fresh & Easy’s Refusal to Negotiate Community Benefits Agreement Could Lead to Failure Similar to That Experienced by Predecessors Like Carrefour. Groups That Stopped Wal-Mart in Inglewood Say TESCO’s Track Record Suggests it Makes Promises it Doesn’t Intend To Keep.
Los Ange...
October 29, 2007
Each hour Waste Management refuses to negotiate means tons more trash piling up on Southern California’s streets.
(Los Angeles) – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO has sanctioned a strike request by sanitation workers represented by Teamsters Local 396. These workers have been ...
October 16, 2007
Los Angeles — Workers at the Wilshire Plaza Hotel, Sportsmen Lodge Hotel, Holiday Inn Downtown Los Angeles, the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, and the Manhattan Beach Marriott voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike at the five hotel properties. 81% of hotel workers at these five hot...
October 12, 2007
Contract Improves Wages and Significantly Increases Pension and Health and Welfare Contributions to Benefit Funds.
Chicago - The Teamsters Union and UPS have reached a tentative agreement for a new five-year national contract for parcel workers that raises wages and will significantly increase ...
October 12, 2007
Thousands of workers at over a dozen other Los Angeles area hotels, including the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Hyatt West Hollywood, Beverly Hilton, Sheraton Los Angeles, Marriott Downtown Los Angeles, and the Millennium Biltmore hotels have ratified new union contracts within the last year. The ...
September 14, 2007
Union Seeks to Protect Hotel Workers Jobs and Preserve Neighborhood Character by Stopping Potential Condo Development on Hotel Site Beyond What Is Allowed Under Existing Law.
UNITE HERE Local 11 took the first step towards filing an initiative for the June 2008 election. Earlier this week...
September 14, 2007
Las Vegas - In two separate shift meetings, members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165 voted by a 99 % margin to authorize their negotiating committees at fourteen Las Vegas casinos and two
industrial laundries to call for economic action, up to a strike. T...
September 11, 2007
Coalition of 25 Organizations Seeks Community Benefits Agreement to Ensure Good Jobs, More Quality Grocery Stores in Underserved Areas, Environmental Safeguards. Alliance Says British Grocer Should Meet Standards Created by Agreements Reached in Staples Center, Hollywood and Vine, and Other Develop...
September 06, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Witnesses told the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions today that Congress must act to prohibit employers from discriminating against their employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
“Like so many other gay, lesbian, bisexual and transge...
September 06, 2007
Despite strong Congressional disapproval, the Bush administration and Department of Transportation have announced their plans to move forward with the Mexican cross-border trucking pilot program.
As a recent Transportation Department Inspector General audit report revealed, this dangerous p...
September 06, 2007
HOTEL WORKERS ALLEGE HOTELS BROKE CITY LAW REQUIRING ALL SERVICE CHARGES BE PAID DIRECTLY TO EMPLOYEES.
Today, employees at eight LAX area hotels - the Four Points, Marriott, Renaissance, Embassy Suites, Courtyard, Westin, Hilton and Radisson - filed class action lawsuits in Los Angeles Superio...
September 03, 2007
Despite Small Gains in Income, Millions of L.A. Residents Cannot Meet Basic Needs Long-Term Growth in Poorly Paid Service Sector Jobs Fuels High Poverty Rates.
Los Angeles — A new report based on the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a mixed economic picture of Los Angeles County. ...
August 07, 2007
NAACP Joins Clergy and Community Members in Condemning Hotel's Treatment of African American and Latino Workers.
The Ritz Carlton Huntington Resort and Spa located in Pasadena is a premier hotel in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in California. But hotel workers complain that within ...
July 29, 2007
Actor Ron Morgan, Los Angeles Local President of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, was recently elected a vice president of the second largest county federation of labor in the country.
As a vice president, Morgan will serve on the 37-member Executive Board, the govern...
July 29, 2007
Agreement Includes Wage & Pension Increases, Health Care Cost Protection.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Members from Teamsters Local 70 overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year agreement with Waste Management Inc. (NYSE:WMI) (WMI) of Alameda County, voting 363-3 to accept a contact that includes strong wage...
July 24, 2007
Alliance That Rallied Behind Supermarket Workers Says Contract Will Save Middle Class Jobs and Strengthen Communities.
Los Angeles — A citywide coalition that helped build public support for grocery workers over the past six months today applauded a new contract overwhelmingly ratified ove...
July 23, 2007
What is anticipated to be LA's largest-ever health care rally, calling for California leaders to eliminate for-profit health insurance companies and to guarantee universal coverage for all residents, will take place at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, August 11, 2007 on the south lawn of L.A.'s City Hall at Fir...
Students Share their Dreams and Immigrant Stories Using YouTube on the Dreams Across America Website
June 11, 2007
Effort part of a public awareness campaign in support of immigration reform.
(Los Angeles) – Several students at Animo South Los Angeles Charter School were taught how to share their dreams and immigrant stories today using YouTube on www.dreamsacrossamericaonline.org. This effort is part o...
June 11, 2007
(Los Angeles) – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO’s delegate body has endorsed Assemblywoman Laura Richardson for the 37th Congressional District. A special primary election is scheduled for June 26th.
“Delegates representing over 350 affiliated unions spoke loud and clea...
May 31, 2007
Representatives of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 99, have filed a petition for a Union election with National Labor Relations Board, on behalf of the more than 100 Department of Public Works employees at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC). The Public Works employees ...
April 25, 2007
Effort will assist in gathering thousands of healthcare stories.
LOS ANGELES – As the California Legislature begins a series of hearings to deliberate on major healthcare reform bills, two coalitions dedicated to ensuring that all Californians are heard and that reforms benefit consumers launch...
April 25, 2007
Harbor area ILWU rallies behind Rite Aid workers’ drive to join Warehouse Local 26.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is ready to take Rite Aid to trial on 49 separate violations of labor law committed by 14 managers at its Lancaster distribution center. Los Angeles Harbor Area ILW...
April 04, 2007
Firings Come Less than One Month after General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board Issues Complaint against LAX Hilton for Alleged Threat of Violence and Physical Attack against Workers. Faith and Community Leaders Call LAX Hilton the ‘Worst Employer in Los Angeles.’
Los Angeles ...
April 04, 2007
In a shocking display of contempt for both their customers and employees, the management of Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons jointly stated their intention to punish their employees for demanding a fair contract, deprive consumers of shopping options and potentially violate federal labor and anti-trust l...
March 23, 2007
(Los Angeles) – In an election that included dozens of races throughout Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Labor Movement helped deliver the votes and lead to victory several key targeted candidates. The Labor Movement outreached to a total of 72,992 union voters.
“There is no question tha...
March 22, 2007
94% of California Faculty Association Members Vote in Support of a Strike if a Contract Settlement Cannot Be Reached with the CSU Administration; Thousands of Faculty Members Will Take Part in the Largest University Strike in U.S. History.
Los Angeles – The California Faculty Association (CFA)...
March 14, 2007
Committee Defeats Misguided Republican Amendment to Permit Religious Discrimination in Hiring.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – By a strong bipartisan vote of 42-1, the House Education and Labor Committee voted today to improve and reauthorize the Head Start early childhood development and education pro...
March 14, 2007
Fired Workers are Union Supporters who Fasted for a Living Wage. Union Says Firings are another Example of Tactics Used by Employers to Intimidate Workers who Exercise their Rights to Form a Union.
Los Angeles — Michael Kaib a server at the LAX Hilton and Alicia Melgarejo a housekeeper at the L...
February 09, 2007
Catastrophic Freeze Leaves Thousands Without Work.
(Los Angeles) - The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO held a press conference Thursday to announce their contribution of $30,000 worth of non-perishable food items that will go to an estimated 28,000 farm workers who are jobl...
February 01, 2007
GAP Urges Lawmakers to Prevent Architect from Blocking Access.
(Washington, D.C.) – Ten congressional tunnel workers who service the utility tunnels beneath the U.S. Capitol complex filed a request yesterday morning for a Health Hazard Evaluation with the National Institute for Occupational Hea...
January 31, 2007
Decision Comes After Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Wage Legislation; Council Will Enact New Ordinance to Address Business Concerns and Revitalize Century Corridor.
Los Angeles — Business leaders have dropped an effort to use a ballot referendum to overturn a landmark law that exten...
January 17, 2007
(San Francisco) – At the request of the Speaker of the California State Assembly Fabian Núñez, Regents of the University of California unanimously voted today to name the University of California Labor and Employment Research and Education Program after late Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Lo...
January 16, 2007
(Commerce, CA) – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO held its annual MLK Breakfast last Friday. Held for the eleventh year in a row, the breakfast is a labor tradition where working families honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by highlighting African American labor acti...
January 09, 2007
(Los Angeles) – Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Executive Secretary-Treasurer Maria Elena Durazo issued the following statement today following Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State address:
“If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class in this state then we m...
January 09, 2007
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Tribal representatives for the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and the Big Lagoon Rancheria vowed to continue their efforts to obtain approval of the Barstow gaming compacts as the 2007 session of the California legislature convened last week.
Labor and envi...
December 14, 2006
New Owner Pledges to Pay Living Wage Immediately, Remain Neutral in Organizing Drive.
The operator of the Four Points Sheraton LAX today hotel called on other LAX area hotels to drop their attempt to repeal the city’s new living wage law for Century Boulevard hotel workers. He also announced th...
December 14, 2006
Workers at Four Points Sheraton LAX Let Go by New Owners as Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez Urges Owners to Return Living Wage Supporters to Work.
Decision Comes on Same Day That Century Hotel Workers End Seven-Day Fast In Support of the Living Wage.
Los Angeles — Twelve workers at the Fou...
December 11, 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a letter sent last week, Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (CA-32) and twenty one other members of the California Congressional Delegation commended Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council for passage of the Century Boulevard Corridor living wage or...
December 11, 2006
United Farm Workers Co-Founder Dolores Huerta, Actor Ed Asner Will Lend Support as Hotels Seek to Repeal Landmark Wage Law.
Sixteen hotel workers on Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport are engaging in a seven-day water-only fast from December 6 to December 12. Workers have ...
December 01, 2006
Action Comes as Businesses Seek to Repeal Legislation With Ballot Referendum.
Senator John Edwards, SEIU President Andy Stern Join Workers, Signaling National Support for LAX Area Wage Law.
Los Angeles — Century Boulevard hotel workers yesterday announced that they will fast in support o...
November 10, 2006
Economy and Jobs Top List of Concerns.
WASHINGTON - According to CNN polling, union voters made the difference in the outcome of the midterm elections. Union members voted for Democrats by 68% to 30%, while non-union voters were split 50% to 48%. SEIU members committed more resources to turning o...
October 10, 2006
With over half a million union member voters in LA County organized labor to make the difference this election.
(Los Angeles) - Workers and labor leaders representing various industries held a press conference last week to announce the Los Angeles Labor Movement’s campaign plan to elect Phil An...
October 10, 2006
Contract Includes Ground Breaking Partnership between Union, Beverly Hilton and African American Community Leaders to Increase Hiring of African Americans at Hotel.
Local 11 and the Beverly Hilton completed several months of intensive labor negotiations with a landmark new labor c...
September 27, 2006
Clergy, Students to Join More than 400 Risking Arrest at Largest Civil Disobedience in L.A. History.
Los Angeles — 20 students and 10 religious leaders joined immigrant workers yesterday to announce that they had signed up over 100 students from a dozen campuses around California and 60 re...
September 15, 2006
Renowned Civil Rights Leader Rev. James Lawson trains attendees to use non-violent resistance in the struggle for immigrant rights.
Los Angeles — On Thursday night, 300 immigrant workers, religious leaders, community members, and students, who have committed to risk arrest, attended a non-...
August 09, 2006
Joint Study to be Conducted Over Next Two Years.
New York and Los Angeles – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the advertising industry’s ANA/AAAA Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Union Relations (JPC) have announced a...
August 02, 2006
2 million member organization representing 1,100 unions overwhelmingly approves measure.
(Los Angeles) – Delegates to the California State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, overwhelmingly endorsed Education Reform Legislation AB 1381 last week. Authored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, AB 138...
May 27, 2006
(Baltimore, MD) ? Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa pledged the support of the entire union last week to First Student school bus drivers and aides in Baltimore, Maryland, who are fighting to improve bus safety and workplace conditions.
?You are not alone in this battle,? Hoffa said at a Balti...
May 17, 2006
Union Member Andy Dinniman Wins Historic Race, Bill DeWeese and Mike Veon Wins Buoyed by Massive Labor Mobilization.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Fueled by a massive member mobilization and education campaign, led by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Labor 2006 program, union member Andy Dinniman as well as key leg...
Maria Elena Durazo Named Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
May 16, 2006
First female to lead one of the largest labor federations in the country.
(Los Angeles, CA) – Delegates to the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO voted last night to name Maria Elena Durazo as the permanent Executive Secretary – Treasurer of the Federation. Durazo, the widow of form...
May 16, 2006
Los Angeles, CA - Employees at four Adelphia locations in Los Angeles have voted to decertify the Communications Workers of America (CWA) as their union on Friday, May 12, 2006. The vote was a significant loss for CWA which represented the same work group through four changes in ownership over a pe...
May 15, 2006
Lost Wages Could Hurt Families as Standoff Reaches Day 5.
Security Officers Deny Workers Entrance to Property to Inquire About Returning to Jobs.
Hundreds of hotel workers from around the city will be joined by elected officials, clergy, and community members at a rally today at 5:00PM at the...
Shuttle Bus Drivers at the LAX Century Corridor Become First to be Unionized Along Century Boulevard
May 06, 2006
(Los Angeles) - Approximately 100 hotel shuttle drivers working along the Century Corridor won union recognition last week, becoming the first workers in the LAX area to become unionized. Shuttle drivers are now members of Teamsters Local 986 out of South El Monte and will soon begin negotiations f...
April 22, 2006
Wage, Benefit Increases for 500 Members of Local 82.
Last week, a strong majority of workers at the Boston Convention Center ratified a new three-year contract. Negotiated by Local 82 in Boston, the agreement raises wages and benefits for approximately 500 workers at the convention center.
?Th...
April 22, 2006
Los Angeles (April 21, 2006) - The Screen Actors Guild National Board today unanimously ratified the recently negotiated Basic Cable Animation agreement. The new contract, which goes into effect immediately, is retroactive to January 1, 2006 and will run through June 30, 2008.
The new agreement is...
April 21, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2006. Despite a mushrooming U.S. trade deficit with China, President Bush failed to take a hard line today on continued subsidies, intellectual property theft, and currency manipulation in a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Kevin L. Kearns, presiden...
April 14, 2006
Solidarity and Memories of a Previous Strike Averts Threats by New York City’s Largest Suppliers to Cut Benefits.
When nine of New York’s building supply distributors told workers they wanted to trim health benefits and freeze pension contributions, the Teamsters at Local 807 in New York stood up...
April 10, 2006
Broad Local Coalition Organizes Rallies to Call on Congress to Enact Fair Legislation to Fix Our Broken System.
LOS ANGELES – Messages of faith, humanity and hope for a better America emerged tonight in a moving candlelit procession of immigrant families, union members, students, community advoc...
April 05, 2006
Site where the living wage ordinance was born to become the first high school in Los Angeles to be named after a labor organizer.
(Los Angeles) – Board members to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted today to name Central High School # 10 after the late Executive Secretary-Treasu...
March 30, 2006
Los Angeles (March 28, 2006) – In a major victory for actors performing in animated programs made for basic cable, Screen Actors Guild negotiators have secured a 20 percent increase in residuals as part of a tentative agreement reached between the Guild and the major producers of animated basic cabl...
March 30, 2006
Members of Local 421 in Dubuque, Iowa recently won an arbitration victory against Swiss Valley Farms Dairy, totaling $700,000. The settlement benefits 175 dairy workers.
In late 2005, an arbitrator ordered Swiss Valley to pay the Teamster members approximately $240,000 plus overtime for the contra...
March 22, 2006
(Los Angeles) – Delegates to the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO voted unanimously Monday night to support efforts to name Central High School # 10 after the late Executive Secretary-Treasurer Miguel Contreras. A similar resolution was also approved to name East Los Angeles High Scho...
March 09, 2006
Statewide Labor Federation Joins Broad-Based Coalition to Provide Quality Preschool to All Four-Year Olds and Strengthen K-12 Schools.
SAN FRANCISCO – The California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO voted to endorse Proposition 82, the Preschool for All initiative, at its pre-primary convention today. ...
March 01, 2006
SACRAMENTO – The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) voted to endorse Proposition 82, calling the initiative a step forward for working families. Proposition 82, the Preschool for All initiative, will appear on the June primary ballot.
“The entire AFSCME fam...
February 25, 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edward J. McElroy, president of the American Federation of Teachers, this week was elected to Education International’s executive board. The election took place at the Education International executive board meeting in Brussels.
“AFT has been a part of Education International s...
February 23, 2006
Eight AFL-CIO Unions, Often Seen as Competitors, Representing 200,000 Registered Nurses Will Work Together on Bargaining, Organizing, Policy and Communications
Washington – Leaders of eight AFL-CIO unions representing nearly 200,000 registered nurses announced today that they are banding together...
February 23, 2006
Workers Who Make Bulletproof Plates Get Pay Increases, Grievance Procedure
Teamsters who manufacture plates for bulletproof vests and related safety equipment for U.S. troops ratified their first contract on February 9 with M-Cubed in Newark, Delaware. The new three-year agreement boosts the worke...
February 17, 2006
Teamsters Announce They Have Met Card Signature Threshold Needed to Schedule Union Representation Vote.
(Washington, DC) – US Airways mechanics from the airline’s Phoenix, Las Vegas and Charlotte sites rallied at the company’s headquarters in Tempe and in front of the US Airways terminal at Las ...
Laborers’ Union, Operating Engineers to Disaffiliate From AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades
February 14, 2006
In Significant Change for Construction Industry, Largest Basic Trades Unions To Forge New Path to Help Millions of Construction Workers Improve Lives.
(February 14, 2006) - The Laborers’ International Union and the International Union of Operating Engineers – two of the largest basic trades unio...
February 13, 2006
President Bush has launched another attack on Social Security benefits. Currently, Social Security makes a one-time payment of $255 to a surviving spouse when a worker dies. The president?s new budget plan calls for the elimination of this lump-sum death benefit, which has been part of Social Securi...
February 13, 2006
Los Angeles - The top governing body of the 335,000 member California Teachers Association has voted to support State Treasurer Phil Angelides in his bid for governor in the coming June primary election and candidates for other constitutional offices.
"Phil Angelides has a commitment to fu...
February 11, 2006
Overwhelming Majority of Voters Choose Teamsters Over FOP
(Nashville, TN) – Metro Nashville police officers signaled they are ready for a change, overwhelmingly voting today to elect the Teamsters Union as their new bargaining representative.
“These officers have spoken loud and clear to Metro—t...
February 07, 2006
Resolution Calls for Mediated Settlement
In response to a growing international campaign by students, labor and other groups protesting human rights violations at Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Colombia and around the world, delegates to the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference u...
February 04, 2006
Four-Count Lawsuit Filed in US District Court for the Central District of California.
EL MONTE, Calif., -- The Executive Council of the World Airways pilot union announced yesterday that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Teamsters Local 986 have filed a four-count federal lawsuit in ...
January 28, 2006
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 28 -- Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) on strike at Boeing space and defense facilities in Alabama, California and Florida will vote Wednesday, Feb. 1, on a revised contract offer from Boeing that has "substantive, not substant...
January 24, 2006
Over 300 members of UNITE HERE are on strike at Angelica Corp’s giant laundry facility in Colton, California. Workers want on strike after the company made a final offer that they felt failed to address a number of key concerns, in particular wages and pension.
Most workers at the Colton facility...
January 22, 2006
John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, made the following remarks on the 'Senseless Slaughter of the Good American Job' at the National Press Club:
The American labor movement is the only organization that speaks exclusively for working families, and I thank the National Press Club for inviti...
January 17, 2006
Local 407 Member Receives Award From City’s Police
Steve Phillips, a 10-year UPS Teamster, was recently honored by the Cleveland Police Department for saving the lives of an officer and his daughter during a fire in October 2003.
Phillips, a feeder driver at the UPS center in Middleburg Heights...
January 11, 2006
Los Angeles (January 10, 2006) – Screen Actors Guild announced today the promotion of two veteran employees to national director positions that each oversees key Guild contracts. Sandy Kincaid has been named national director of commercial and industrial contracts, while Karen Borell has assumed the...
January 11, 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, President Bush once again bypassed the U.S. Senate on a critical federal appointment and named Peter Kirsanow to fill a vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A recess appointment like this one is a subversion of our democratic process, a conclusion ampli...
January 03, 2006
Teamsters Local 407 Member Receives Award From City’s Police
Steve Phillips, a 10-year UPS Teamster, was recently honored by the Cleveland Police Department for saving the lives of an officer and his daughter during a fire in October 2003.
Phillips, a feeder driver at the UPS center in Middlebu...
December 21, 2005
AFT Calls for Higher Salaries, More Funding for Nursing Programs
Report Released Near the Christmas Day Birthday of Civil War Nurse Clara Barton
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tens of thousands of qualified nursing school applicants are turned away annually because there are not enough nurse educators to...
December 14, 2005
Screen Actors Guild executive Ilyanne Morden Kichaven has been named to the senior-level post of Hollywood executive director, it was announced today by the Guild. An entertainment industry veteran and five-year Guild executive, Kichaven will work directly with the Hollywood Division board and the ...
December 06, 2005
Historic Labor Alliance Recognized, Pay Parity Achieved for America West Workers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) reached a transition agreement with US Airways, securing significant wage increases and work protection...
December 02, 2005
NLRB in Washington, D.C. Upholds Earlier Decision
Local 507 in Cleveland, which organized 178 blood-collection workers at the Red Cross in September 2004, won an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on November 29 upholding the union’s right to represent the workers.
"This has b...
November 28, 2005
Store Managers Given Scripted Response to Documentary
Robert Greenwald's documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," has the company scrambling to make sure all employees know the “right response” to the film. A two-page "script" has been given to store managers with instructions to read i...
November 03, 2005
Employees of Reno-Area Car Dealership Demand Respect
Tired of being mistreated by management, workers at a car dealership in Sparks, Nevada overwhelmingly voted to join Local 533 in Reno. The workers at Lithia Motors voted September 28 to join the Teamsters. The 10-member unit consists of lot att...
November 02, 2005
Race Issues Forum at Penn to Focus on Predominantly Black Security Officers' Civil Rights
A leading University of Pennsylvania contractor's mistreatment of its largely African American workforce and its tactics to block the officers' efforts to improve their lives by forming a union will be the f...
November 02, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Colorado voters sent a clear message yesterday: High-quality public services matter and are essential to the health, safety, education and prosperity of Colorado citizens. Their vote was also a harsh indictment of the state’s unworkable, so-called Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR...
October 31, 2005
Nearly Half of the Nation’s Faculty Members Have Part-Time Status; Most Earn Extremely Low Wages and Few Receive Healthcare or Other Benefits
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week (Oct. 31 – Nov. 4), a coalition that includes the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Association of University...
October 27, 2005
Official Statement of Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa
I commend the House Committee on Resources for taking an important step toward increased energy independence today. By passing a measure that instructs the Secretary of the Interior to move forward with developing the Coastal Plain of th...
October 26, 2005
The following is a statement of Terence M. O'Sullivan, General President of the Laborers' International Union on the Reinstatement of Davis-Bacon in the Gulf Coast:
For struggling Gulf Coast families and communities, this is sorely needed good news.
The family-supporting provisions of Davis-Baco...
October 03, 2005
Hessinger Appoints Rebecca Rhine and John Russum to Key Organizing, Agency Relations and Strategic Planning Positions
Los Angeles (September 29, 2005) – In a move that signals an increased focus on organizing, strategic planning and agency relations, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Executive Director/...
September 29, 2005
(St. Louis, Missouri) — Today, we make history. Today, we set a new path for the American worker. The most militant, progressive and activist unions join together to create something new.
We have a vision of growth and strength. Our new federation is a mighty sum of its parts. Six million work...
September 24, 2005
National Membership Elects Connie Stevens as Secretary-Treasurer; 24 National Board Seats Also Filled
Los Angeles – Alan Rosenberg was elected the 24th president of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today, the Guild has announced. Rosenberg succeeds Melissa Gilbert, who served as president since 2001 and...
September 24, 2005
Guild Announces Alan Rosenberg Elected New Guild President, Connie Stevens as New Secretary-Treasurer
Los Angeles – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today announced election results for the Guild’s National Board of Directors. Twenty-four of the 69 national board seats were contested in this election, ...
September 22, 2005
First Agreement Features Wage Increases, Central States Pension and Health and Welfare
On September 5, workers at Sargents Equipment and Repair Services, Inc. unanimously voted in favor of their first Teamster contract. The 10 workers, who service and sell heavy equipment at the company's South ...
September 19, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sandra Feldman, who rose from her position as a second-grade elementary school teacher in New York City to become president of the 1.3 million member American Federation of Teachers, died last night after a long battle with cancer, AFT President Edward J. McElroy announced today. ...
September 12, 2005
President George W. Bush issued an executive order Sept. 8 that would allow contractors to pay substandard wages to construction workers in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast area destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
The order followed Congress' approval of more than $62.3 billion to help rebuild the...
September 07, 2005
Los Angeles – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today announced it is urging all of its professional actors to support members of the Canadian Media Guild, who have been locked out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for almost four weeks. Management’s lockout of more than 5,000 newspaper workers...
September 01, 2005
Man Resuscitated by CPR-Trained Teamsters A man, who was out on Lake Michigan for a leisurely fishing trip, is alive today, thanks to a group of Teamsters in East Chicago, Indiana.
Local 142 member Higenio "Beto" Martinez was just pulling a boat out of the water at the East Chicago Marina, whe...
August 22, 2005
Union Successfully Lobbies Governor to Veto a State Bill that Would Have Allowed Talent Managers to Act as Agents
In a major victory for working actors in New York state, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today announced that it has successfully persuaded New York Gov. George Pataki to veto legislation t...
August 12, 2005
United Steelworkers: DuPont's C8 Contamination in Ohio Is Latest Example of Company Putting Workers, Community at Risk
The United Steelworkers (USW) released the following statement regarding C8 contamination of groundwater, air and river discharges at the DuPont Co.'s Circleville, Ohio, facilit...
August 12, 2005
Teamster History Recalls Fight For Landmark Legislation
August 6 marked the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a comprehensive legislative package that made intentional discrimination against minorities seeking to exercise the right to vote a federal crime.
This was a first ...
August 04, 2005
National Labor Union Locals Will Collect Used Cell Phones to Help Soldiers Deployed Overseas.
In an effort to support the troops stationed overseas, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today launched its Cell Phones for Soldiers Pilot Program. Through the program, participants ...
August 04, 2005
Union Will Monitor Court Proceedings To Protect Jobs, Wages And Benefits
(Washington, D.C.) – The Teamsters Union has taken immediate steps to protect the jobs, wages and benefits of Teamster carhaul members following Sunday’s Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy filing of Allied Holdings, Inc. and its ...
July 28, 2005
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) members voted today by a margin of 81.2 percent to 18.8 percent to overwhelmingly approve the proposed Interactive Media Agreement recently negotiated with video game producers. In accordance with a national board decision on June 29, the referendum was sent to Screen Actor...
July 28, 2005
Immigration Officers Pose as Workplace Safety Officials to Entrap Immigrant Workers.
Washington, D.C. -- The segment of the American workforce most likely to suffer injury or death on the job was targeted in a scam operation by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. ICE o...
July 28, 2005
With last night’s razor-thin vote in favor of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), “a slim majority in Congress has betrayed workers, farmers and ordinary citizens in the United States and Central America,” said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger.
“CAFTA, like NAFTA before it, protec...
July 28, 2005
Strong-Arm Tactics Help Pass Agreement
Early this morning, Congress narrowly passed the job-killing trade agreement, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), by a vote of 217 to 215. This unfair trade deal will further spread the damage of its predecessor, the North American Free Trad...
July 28, 2005
Chunghwa Telecom Directors Alert SEC to Illegal Share Offering; AFL-CIO Calls on SEC to Block Sale
Three members of the board of directors of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., (NYSE: CHT) have alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that a proposed sale of the company's stock in the United ...
July 28, 2005
Convention Makes Major Changes to Leadership Structure, Extra Support for Grassroots
John J. Sweeney was re-elected President of the AFL-CIO -- along with Richard Trumka as Secretary-Treasurer and Linda Chavez-Thompson as Executive Vice President -- at the AFL-CIO convention here today by mor...
July 28, 2005
The following is a statement about the Governor’s announcement of a November special election.
By Art Pulaski, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to call his taxpayer-funded special election is bad for politics and bad for Califor...
July 28, 2005
TBS to Join TNT in Live Simulcast of the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® Jan. 29, 2006
Submissions for the 12th Annual SAG Awards® Nominations Opened on July 18, 2005.
For the first time since TNT began live telecasts of the SAG Awards® in 1998, the top-rated drama network will be joine...
July 27, 2005
On Heels of IBM Victory, Laborers’ Union Pushes Forward On Corporate Accountability
IBM Agrees to Laborers’ Proposal to Expense Stock Options; Proposals at Sempra Energy, Community Health Systems Remain on Proxies.
IBM has agreed to a shareholder proposal submitted by a Laborers’ Union pensi...
May 18, 2005
United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez issued the following statement from the union’s Keene, Calif. headquarters upon the May 6, 2005 passing of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Miguel Contreras:
All of us in the farm worker movement ar...
May 12, 2005
Laborers’ Union Backs Key Provisions of McCain-Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill
Despite Guest Worker Concerns, Union Calls Ability to Earn Legalization Great Leap for Millions of Hard-working Immigrant Workers.
The Laborers’ International Union Thursday joined with a broad coali...
February 17, 2005
Missouri Laborers and their hard-earned pension and health and safety funds are playing a key role in backing down an investment firm pushing President Bush’s privatization scheme for Social Security.
“The hard-earned pensions of Laborers and all working people should work for us, not against ...