Unions Tag

Canadian Union Poised to Strike against Freight Railroads Hours after Trains Resume Service after Shutdown

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 25, 2024 16 Comments

Canada's freight rail shutdown threatens U.S. supply chains. ...

Teacher Unions That Supported Covid Lockdowns Are Big Fans of Harris Running Mate Tim Walz

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 12, 2024 4 Comments

"The AFT was the first labor union to formally endorse Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination after President Biden was pushed out of the race by his own party."...

President of the Teamsters Union Addresses Republican National Convention in Historic First

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 16, 2024 41 Comments

"The speech is the clearest sign of a potential realignment in political loyalties that has Democrats nervous."...

Doctoral Student at UC-Berkeley Quits Academic Union Over Its Obsession With Palestine

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2024 9 Comments

"the union’s strike endangers the safety and rights of Jewish workers like myself"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_j4Dh9koA

Teachers Union in Massachusetts Taps Anti-Israel Activist to Create Curriculum About Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 02, 2024 10 Comments

“commitment to transforming classrooms into arenas of radicalism”...

Private Sector Employees Increasingly Rejecting Union Orgnizing

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 18, 2024 6 Comments

"the portion of the private-sector workforce represented by a union has dramatically declined from a peak of around 35 percent in 1954 to a mere six percent in 2023"...

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Southern Poverty Law Center Terminates a Quarter of its Staff, Outraging Union

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 14, 2024 10 Comments

“We are devastated for our union and our colleagues”...

Judge Orders Workers at University of California to Pause Strike Over Israel-Hamas War

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 09, 2024 4 Comments

"We are extremely grateful for a pause in this strike so our students can complete their academic studies."...

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1787811476209541247

California Democrats Push Union-Backed Anti-Self-Checkout Bill Under Guise of Fighting Crime, Racism

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 17, 2024 62 Comments

“We know that what makes our community safe is not more jail time and penalties. What makes our community safe is real enforcement, having real workers that are on the floor."...

NYC Jewish Public Defenders Sue Over Union’s Pro-Hamas Activism

Posted by Jane Coleman on April 15, 2024 24 Comments

After the Hamas massacre on October 7th, Jewish lawyers at New York City's Legal Aid Society faced an environment so hostile they considered quitting, the Free Press reported last month. Members of their own union, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA)/UAW Local 2325, were attacking them from within for supporting Israel, and the reporters had been handed the receipts. Nasty group texts and leaked emails called defenders of the Jewish state “fascist,” “deranged,” and “mentally disturbed,” while hundreds of other messages accused Israel of "genocide," "ethnic cleansing" and "apartheid."

Jewish Lawyers Claim Their Own Union is Attacking Them for Supporting Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 14, 2024 5 Comments

“I hate it there. I think the union is a sinking ship. So I am actively looking for an escape plan”...

Teachers in Newton, MA End Strike After Keeping Schools Closed for Eleven Days

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 03, 2024 25 Comments

"The union was seeking a 20% hike in pay, but they negotiated 12% over four years — that will equal 13.5% 'compounded' over the life of the deal"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8KLnvgk6Mw

Cornell graduate student workers vote to join anti-Israel national union

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2023 19 Comments

On a campus wracked with anti-Israel activism and antisemitic invective, the connection to an anti-Israel national union raises concerns of a renewed BDS effort: "anti-Israel activists should not be permitted to get in through the union back door what they have been unable to get...

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