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Local organizing helps lift labor to historic week: What do Virginia wireless workers, Maryland administrative assistants, Harvard grad students and JetBlue flight attendants have in common? They were all part of last week’s historic organizing surge, as more than 10,000 workers joined unions. The JetBlue flight attendants and Harvard grad students — with about 5,000 each — comprised the […]

https://itsgoingdown.org/reinstate-the-dekalb-8-support-bus-drivers-fired-for-organizing/ Across the country teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees have gone on strike for better pay and benefits in a massive groundswell of action. In DeKalb County (located east of Atlanta) in Georgia, 400 bus drivers took part in a sickout, and in response, the school district fired 8 drivers. These firings represent […]

https://mtea.weac.org/2018/04/25/thousands-protest-to-demand-a-student-centered-budget/ Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association Photo Credit: Joe Brusky In an incredible show of solidarity and strength, well over 3,000 MPS education workers, parents, students, and community members picketed up and down Vliet Street outside of MPS Central Office. Quickly, the crowd grew so large that Vliet St. was closed as the picketers spilled into […]

http://www.qualityschoolsbetterlives.org/#about The District continues to depend on a largely part-time work force to provide critical support services, including student nutrition, health and safety, and classroom support. Additionally, after school programs and parent training, which are proven to increase graduation rates are in dire need of expansion. Career ladder opportunities to hire more teachers from our local […]

AFSCME 3299 SUPPORT PLEDGE AFSCME 3299 https://afscme3299.org/ Why is our AFSCME 3299 bargaining team calling for a strike vote? Our Bargaining Team has been negotiating in good faith. UC still has yet to offer real wage increases, benefit protections, job security, safe staffing and ending discrimination in the workplace. Instead, UC wants us to take […]

https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinppc/ Wisconsin’s religious leaders, organizations, and local communities, teaming up to fight against systematic poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. Non-Violent Moral Fusion training in Milwaukee Saturday, April 28, 2018 at ATU Local 998 ? Please register here. Thank you! https://goo.gl/forms/sLtd2iZsyRns6SRg1 Public Meetings, May 10 and June 14: 3020 W Vliet Street, Milwaukee, African American Women’s Center (WAAW), 6:30 […]