Teamsters’ unions across the country, including in key battleground states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, have rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz. Collectively, these unions represent one million Teamsters. These local Teamsters have committed to immediately begin knocking doors and engaging in other voter contact efforts across the battlegrounds. Many […]
Read More →Midwest, New York, and West Coast Teamsters Join Their Union Brethren in Endorsing Harris
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Brother Mike Koziara – Rest in Peace
on July 1, 2024in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: bmwe, bmwe 509, Koziara, Labor Unions, Mike Koziara, obituaries, selfless, Teamsters, union, vice president, volunteer, wwaflcio
Mike Koziara, vice president emeritus of the Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO, passed away at the age of 64 on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at his home. He was born February 28, 1960, to Stanley and Linda Koziara. He married Joan Lodoen on September 30, 1989, in Barre Mills, Wisconsin. He was a lifelong railroad employee with […]
Read More →UFCW Inks National Cannabis Deal(s)
on June 7, 2021in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: afl-cio, Brian Young, Cannabis, CBD, hemp, Nature’s Root Labs, pro-union, Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union, rwdsu, Teamsters, ucommblog, UFCW, UFCW Local 1625, UFCW Local 7, Union Harvest, union-packed, union-sold products, unionize, United Food and Commercial Workers, USA union-made, wwaflcio
With CBD legal for purchase nationwide and cannabis becoming legal in more and more states, these industries are becoming a new industry to organize. This organizing is being led by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), their sister union the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), and the Teamsters. The UFCW, which is […]
Read More →Unions Back Effort To Block Deportations; Create Pathways To Citizenship
on March 20, 2019in WWAFLCIO Archived Newstags: DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deportations, Dream and Promise Act, H.R. 6, Haitians, Hondurans, immigration, Liberians, LIUNA, Salvadorans, SEIU, Teamsters, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, UFCW
Several major American unions have endorsed a bill introduced in the House March 12, that could protect more than 2 million people from deportation. The Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6), sponsored by Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), would enable two sketchily protected groups of immigrants to apply for […]
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