Today in 2005 Walmart agrees to pay a record $11 million to settle a civil immigration case for using undocumented immigrants to do overnight cleaning at stores in 21 states. ~ Labor Tribune
• Unions lead the way in providing health care benefits. • Forced to choose kids’ health or their jobs, parents go union. • Teamsters applaud NAFTA progress; talks extended. • Why Labor is fighting to save veterans’ healthcare. • Will automation put an end to the American trucker? • Trump’s “death by a thousand cuts” plan for the VA exposed. • Kaepernick files grievance, claims owners blacklisted him. • On the ground in Puerto Rico with the Teamsters and other union volunteers. • Becoming a steelworker liberated her, until her job moved to Mexico. • Maryland to offer online shopping tool for common medical procedures.
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - Apr. 7 @ 10 a.m. Salisbury - Apr. 21 @ 10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!