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UNITE HERE Local 26

Battery Wharf Hotel workers have been on strike for over a month. The Battery Wharf is the only Local 26 hotel in Boston that has not agreed to a contract that ensures affordable health care, fair raises, and sexual harassment protections for the people who make their hotel run! One Job Should Be Enough! UNITE HERE Local 26

Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition demonstration at a Prudential office in Farmington Hills, Michigan on Sept. 27, 2019. | Photo: Pan-African News Wire

https://fighting-words.net/2019/10/11/no-detention-centers-in-michigan-demonstration-held-by-moratorium-now-coalition/

By Detroit FW Staff

Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) held a noon-time demonstration in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit at the Prudential Financial office on Fri. Sept. 27, 2019.

This demonstration was in response to a call by No Detentions in Michigan to protest Prudential’s investment in the GEO private prisons and detention centers system which detains immigrants from oppressed nations as well as African Americans in the United States.

Prudential is the 6th largest investor in GEO Group and the 5th investor in CoreCivic. GEO Group and CoreCivic manage private prisons/immigrant detention centers.

GEO Group opened a detention center in Baldwin, Michigan on Oct. 1.

The actions were statewide demanding the disinvestment by Prudential and the closing of these concentration camps.

Photos 10/11/19: WI BOPM

Coalition to March on the DNC

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After months of legal wrangling, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has ordered all federal agencies to begin following Trump’s executive orders (EO) to limit union time and make it easier to fire federal workers.

The orders, which were signed by Trump in May of 2018, would limit union time, kick union officials out of offices on government property, and would change disciplinary rules. Federal unions immediately sued to stop the orders arguing that they were a violation of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA). A lower court agreed, but in July a federal appellate court overruled the decision and instead said that the decision should be made by the Federal Labor Relations Authority. This is a quasi-governmental body that governs labor disputes between the federal government and its employees.

According to a memo that was released by the OPM, on October 3, the Court of Appeals finalized their decision to overturn the lower court’s ruling. The agency continued saying that all “previously enjoined provisions, are in full force and effect and should be implemented consistent with the requirements and guidance contained in the EOs.”

The orders also would give management a freer hand in disciplining employees for alleged misconduct, give employees only the minimum required opportunity to improve before disciplining them for poor performance and generally require that agencies move as fast as the law allows.

With the new OPM directive, all agencies are now expected to begin implementing Trump’s work rules in violation of the CBA’s. In response to the OPM’s move, federal union leaders prepared to file new grievances against the Trump administration.

“Any attempts by agencies to enforce these provisions outside of the collective bargaining process will be met with an immediate legal challenge by the union,” said American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox Sr. in a statement to the Washington Post. He went on to say that the intent of the orders is to “remove unions from the worksite and make it harder for our members to report mismanagement or other abuses.”

Cox may not be far off. UCOMM recently reported on a leaked memo that advised Trump on ways to rid the federal government of unions. This 2017 memo included many of the provisions that were included in his EOs just a year later.

Thank you to the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO for standing with UAW members on strike at GM for a fair contract and a pathway to permanent seniority for temporary workers! #StandWithUS

Join UAW Local 598, UAW Local 651, UAW Local 1811 and UAW Local 659 for a Solidarity Sunday Rally this Sunday at the Local 659 Pavilion in Flint. Get ready to join our brothers and sisters on the picket line following the event and be sure to wear red!

Thank you to the NEA Today for standing with our members on strike at GM as they stand up for job security, fair wages and quality affordable health coverage. #StandWithUS #Solidarity #1u

Thank you to the Maritime Labor Alliance for supporting our members on picket lines at GM facilities across the country. #StandWithUS #Solidarity #1u