The holiday shopping season is well underway. Are you using your purchasing power to support good, local Wisconsin jobs by buying union-made, Wisconsin-made and American-made gifts for friends and family? At the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, they’ve recently revamped the Buy Wisconsin website. An easy to navigate site to help you find union-made and Wisconsin-made goods and […]
Union Construction Jobs Safer than Non-Union
A new study shows non-union jobsites have 3 times more fatalities It may not be news to those in the business, but new numbers back up what IBEW and other union construction members already know: there’s safety in a union. “New York’s Building Trades Employers Association, which represents more than 1,300 contractors in New York […]
GM Striker Dies on Picket Line
The United Automobile Workers (UAW) have confirmed that one of their members, Roy McCombs, has died after he was hit by a car outside of the GM facility in Tennessee on Tuesday (October 22, 2019). McCombs, who worked at the Spring Hill plant, was struck by a car at 6 AM while crossing the street […]
Maine-based company cited by OSHA after heat-related death in Nebraska
A Maine-based company has been cited after a heat-related fatality in Nebraska. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Smith Mountain Investments LLC faces $18,564 in penalties after the July death, stemming from work at a jobsite in Inman, Nebraska. OSHA said an employee became ill while performing extreme physical activity […]
AFL-CIO Statement on Trade
AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL STATEMENT ON TRADE Without Fixes, We Must Oppose the New NAFTA September 2019 When the new NAFTA was signed, the AFL-CIO warned that we would oppose the agreement without major changes. As we said in our March 2019 Executive Council statement, the labor movement will mobilize to defeat the new NAFTA if […]
Get to Know WWAFLCIO’s Affiliates: Painters
Our next deeper look at one of our affiliates is the Painters and Allied Trades. Name of Union: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) Mission: To shape members’ communities through an abiding commitment to service, by fighting passionately for workers’ rights that benefit all working families and through effective and aggressive political mobilization. […]
Stand Up and Be Recognized: Recent Worker Wins
Stand Up and Be Recognized: Worker Wins The latest roundup of worker wins begins with actors and actresses winning new contracts and includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. SAG-AFTRA Signs New Agreement with Ad Agency BBH After 10-Month Strike: After a strike that lasted 10 months, SAG-AFTRA has […]
AFL-CIO: Unions Aim to Roar in 2020
Despite its setbacks, or perhaps because of them, organized labor has an energy level that AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka says he hasn’t seen before in his 50 years with the movement. Unions are pushing for more than just lip service from presidential candidates, which is prompting a flurry of pro-labor proposals from Democratic candidates. Mr. […]
Labor Day 2019
This Labor Day, working people in every corner of the Coulee Region have good reason to be proud. Labor is on the rise; we are marching banding together. Working families are refusing to accept business as usual. The 128th Annual La Crosse Labor Day Parade, sponsored by the Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO, is scheduled for Monday, […]
