Watch for Employers Using Benefits as Bargaining Chips
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Negotiations
Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Wisconsin AFL-CIO Supports Striking UAW Members at Vollrath Manufacturing
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. On April 4, more than 250 members of UAW Local 1472 went on strike at …
Corporations Deploy Anti-Worker Weapon
Instead of picnicking, Steelworkers in six states spent this Labor Day picketing the gates of a dozen Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) specialty mills. These 2,200 Steelworkers are not on strike. They never even took a strike vote to threaten a walkout. ATI locked them out of their jobs. ATI threw them out of the mills …
Workers Stay on Job as AT&T Contracts Expire and Negotiations Continue to Avert a Strike
Contracts for about 40,000 unionized AT&T landline workers represented by the Communications Workers of America expired over the weekend. Four divisions are governed by separate contracts; 9,000 AT&T Mobility workers ratified a new contract last week. The landline workers had voted March 31 to authorize a strike if new contracts weren’t reached, but they have …
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