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Your Support is Needed: Stand with Boeing Workers!

on September 20, 2024in News, Western WI Newstags: afl-cio, aflcio, America's workforce, Boeing, California, collective bargaining, collective voice, communities, contract, fair wages, families, iam, IAM District 751, IAM District Lodge 66, IAM District W24, membership, middle class, negotiating, Oregon, safe work, solidarity, stand with Boeing workers, Support, support these workers, This is Our Future and Our Fight, union, Washington state, working families, wwaflcio

33,000 members of IAM District 751 and IAM District W24 just voted by 94% to reject Boeing’s contract offer. IAM wants to get back to the negotiating table ASAP to get a contract that the membership deserves! This is Our Future and Our Fight. IAM District 751 and District W24 represent Boeing workers in Washington […]

Dancers at Los Angeles club become US’s only unionized strippers

on May 24, 2023in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: 2023, actors equity, bankruptcy, California, Chris Smalls, dancer safety, dancers, exocotic dancers, health insurance, highly physical work, mental health support, North Hollywood, Rage Against the Machine, safe jobs, sexual harassment, Star Garden, Star Garden Topless Dive Bar, strippers, Tom Morello, union, union orgiznating, union orgiznating victory, unionization, unionized, unionized strippers, unsafe working conditions, Workers, workplace injuries

After months of late-night picketing in North Hollywood, the dancers of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar have become the only unionized strippers in the US. Their victory was finalized with a unanimous vote by 17 dancers in favor of unionization on Thursday morning , and marks the first time that the Actors Equity association, […]

‘We went from heroes to zeroes’: US nurses strike over work conditions

on July 31, 2021in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: afl-cio, America, California, chicago, Coronavirus, Corpus Christi Medical Center, COVID-19, delta, deteriorating working conditions, family supporting jobs, Heart-wrenching, Los Angeles, Memphis, Methodist University hospital, National Nurses United, Pandemic, patient safety concerns, quarantine, safe jobs, SEIU, texas, understaffing, USC Keck hospital, USC Norris Cancer

Last April people across America came out of quarantine each night to cheer the healthcare workers fighting to save lives a the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Sixteen months on, nurses around the US are holding strikes and picket actions amid claims of deteriorating working conditions and severe understaffing issues. Matt Robinson and Bobby Bluford […]

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