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CWA Members Striking for Their Families Future
Southern Workers Assembly Pledges Solidarity With Verizon Worker’s Strike
Learn more about the Verizon strike here:
CWA District 2-13 Press Release
CWA Stand Up to Verizon Action Page
IBEW local 2222 Strike Update
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Join and find a picket line near you!!
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How to support the strike: http://www.cwa-union.org/
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Stand with Striking Verizon Workers
AFL-CIO PETITION: http://bit.ly/1qHZXKV
April 14: Shut Down Trump In NYC
Southern People’s Initiatives
Why do we need Southern People’s Initiatives?
As hostility and violence intensifies in all our communities, from climate disaster and deportations to police killings and generational poverty, Southern movements are rising. Organizations are coordinating across borders and beyond single issues to demand justice and to build a better world.
In the South, it’s not just about a confederate flag. The Southern People’s Initiatives confront the historic realities of poverty and racism that manifest today in destructive policies, widespread voter suppression, and a dangerous social climate.
It will take a people’s movement to dismantle injustice and build a new economy, a true democracy, and protected communities.
We invite you to participate in the Southern Movement Assembly and connect your powerful work to the Southern People’s Initiatives in 2016.
We are stronger together.
Kenosha, May 21: Wisconsin Labor History Society – 35th Annual Conference
Wisconsin Labor History Society – 35th Annual Conference
A Historical Look at Immigration and Unions:
Lessons for Today
Lessons for Today
Saturday, May 21, 2016
UAW Local 72 Hall, 3615 Washington Road, Kenosha
New citizens have built this nation, made our unions strong and created better life for all.
The conference looks at how workers and unions can best involve today’s immigrants.
The conference looks at how workers and unions can best involve today’s immigrants.
Milwaukee, May 1: 130th ANNIVERSARY OF BAY VIEW MASSACRE
130th ANNIVERSARY OF BAY VIEW MASSACRE TO BE HELD MAY 1 SHOWING RE-ENACTMENT OF 1886 EVENT
Again, there’ll be larger-than-life-sized puppets helping to re-enact Wisconsin’s historic Bay View Tragedy that occurred May 5, 1886 when the State Militia killed seven persons demonstrating for the eight-hour day.
The 130th Anniversary Commemoration of the Bay View Tragedy will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, May 1, near the site of the massacre along the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee. The event, having become a tradition, will feature Will Jones, UW-Madison history professor, music and the re-enactment, staged by the Milwaukee Public Theatre and the Milwaukee Puppet and Mask Theatre.
Join the FREE outdoor event (it’ll last about an hour) at the historical marker site grounds at S. Superior St. and E. Russell Ave. The Wisconsin Labor History Society has been the principal sponsor of the event that has been held for 30 consecutive years.
Verizon Workers Announce Strike Deadline of Wednesday, April 13
CWA Release: http://bit.ly/1WokMqO
Monday, April 11, 2016
After trying for ten months to reach a fair contract, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Virginia will go on strike at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13 if a fair agreement is not reached by then. The Verizon strike will be by far the largest work stoppage in the country in recent years.
“We’re standing up for working families and standing up to Verizon’s corporate greed,” said CWA District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor. “If a hugely profitable corporation like Verizon can destroy the good family-supporting jobs of highly skilled workers, then no worker in America will be safe from this corporate race to the bottom.”
Even though Verizon made $39 billion in profits over the last three years — and $1.8 billion a month in profits over the first three months of 2016 — the company wants to gut job security protections, contract out more work, offshore jobs to Mexico, the Philippines and other locations and require technicians to work away from home for as long as two months without seeing their families. Verizon is also refusing to negotiate any improvements in wages, benefits or working conditions for Verizon Wireless retail workers, who formed a union in 2014.
“More and more, Americans are outraged by what some of the nation’s wealthiest corporations have done to working people over the last 30 years, and Verizon is becoming the poster child for everything that people in this country are angry about,” said Edward Mooney, Vice President, CWA District 2-13.” This very profitable company wants to push people down. And it wants to push communities down by not fully repairing the network and by not building out FIOS…”
Press Contacts:
CWA Mid-Atlantic District Office
(215) 546-5574
WI AFL-CIO: Right To Work Law Struck Down
From the WI AFL-CIO:
Wisconsin is no longer a Right to Work state! Wisconsin workers’ rights are being restored with a circuit court ruling that Gov. Walker’s anti-union Right to Work law is unconstitutional. On Friday, April 8, 2016, the court put a needed check on Scott Walker’s attacks on working families by ruling that Wisconsin’s Right to Work law is in violation of our state constitution.
Right to Work has always been unjust, now it’s been proven unconstitutional as well. Right to Work goes against the Wisconsin principles of fairness and democracy and hurts all of Wisconsin by eroding the strength of our middle class.
Restoring the full right of working people to have a meaningful voice in their union to improve wages, better workplace conditions and lift up our middle class is a victory for us all.
The Wisconsin AFL-CIO, together with the United Steelworkers and the Machinists Union, filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s Right to Work law last year. Our case was argued and presented by Frederick Perillo of the Previant Law Firm. Fred’s work, along with the entire Previant Law Firm’s careful, exceptional and thoughtful legal expertise, gave working people a victory.
This decision is the first time in 70 years that a challenge to a statewide Right to Work law has been sustained in a court.
Judge Foust agreed with the Unions that the Right to Work law forces unions to provide services to non-members who are not required to pay anything for the costs of such representation. The Court calls this situation “the free-rider effect of Act 10 on Wisconsin organized labor.” “Free rider” captures the unfairness of letting some workers “ride the bus” without paying the fare—in this case, their fair share of the costs of their own representation.
We know Scott Walker and his allies will file legal maneuvers to appeal the decision so further litigation may ensue. But make no mistake, we, along with each and every one of you, will continue to fight to advance the rights of working people to have a full and powerful voice in their union so that everyone who gets up and goes to work in the morning can have a shot at the American Dream.
In Solidarity,
Phil Neuenfeldt, President
Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer
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Feb. 28, 2015 state capitol in Madison [http://jennapope.com/]
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Protesters demanding an end to right-to-work-for-less legislation and other austerity in Madison Feb. 28, 2015 [Photo: Joe Brusky]
Milwaukee, July 7: Stop The Bradley Foundation
From the Facebook group description, http://bit.ly/1Q3fFoD
The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is one of the largest right-wing anti-worker, racist think tanks in the world. The Foundation is an integral part of Wall Street’s right-wing foundation network that has as its goal to wipe out all legal, social and other barriers to making profits by capitalists. This includes: promoting deregulation and privatization including charter/voucher schools; busting or weakening unions; promoting funding for the Pentagon instead of funding for cities such as Flint, Mich.; attacking Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ organizations and communities, immigrants/migrants the Black Lives Matter Movement, First Nations people and environmental organizations; and advocating for the destruction of social safety nets such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and WIC (Women, Infants and Children).
Bradley funded the writing of the notoriously racist book, “The Bell Curve,” by Charles Murray and the late Richard Hernstein to the tune of well over $1 million. The book was co-funded by the Pioneer Society, a holdover from the white-supremacist eugenics movement of the 1920s and 30s. The book argued in part that people of African descent are genetically inferior to rich people of European descent. The book has been completely debunked by numerous scholars (including Stephen Hawking) worldwide. Murray’s and Hernstein’s racist eugenics is still being used by Wall Street politicians and policy makers to justify attacks and austerity inflicted by Wall Street interests and their political servants on poor and working people and in particular people of color.
In Wisconsin, Bradley for decades has been responsible for funding in whole or in part some of the worst austerity attacks on workers and our communities and this has increased rapidly over the past five years. Bradley’s Board of Directors is full of banking and corporate executives as well as Pentagon affiliated individuals. They all have ties to an assortment of other right-wing organizations including the Koch-brothers funded Americans For Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the MacIver Institue and the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Michael Grebe, Bradley’s current President, was the Chair of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s electoral campaigns. Bradley supports many more politicans in Wisconsin that are destroying worker’s quality of life and communities. Bradley played a fundamental role to create and push the union-busting legislation known as Act 10 and right-to-work (for less) and many more laws that took decades for poor and working people to win.
The July 7 protest at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee will be an educational event to expose how the foundation is an enemy of all poor and working people. We will also continue our conversations of how we are fighting to build a people’s united front for a world of real freedom, justice, dignity and equality for all workers and our communities. And how to win a world without Wall Street and its tools like the Bradley Foundation.
Leading up to July 7, this page will be posting articles and other educational information about Bradley and its related right wing organizations.
More information on logistical information for July 7 will be posted as the date draws nearer.
Stop the Bradley Foundation! http://bit.ly/1Q3fFoD
