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
• Public unions will survive the Janus ruling • How much damage will Trump’s trade war do? • The battered aspirations of the working class • Pension reform, 2018 election top issues at IBT conference • Corporations, MSM trumpet the ‘horrors’ of higher wages • House committee approves cuts Labor Dept. budget • Worker wages drop while companies spend billions to boost stocks • Social Security recipients could be collateral damage of Trump’s workforce orders • Truck driver shortage: "Solution' would make the profession more dangerous • Labor Dept. removes rule that would have exposed employer union-busting • Best pro-union movie to come around in years: ‘Sorry to Bother You’
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!