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Local and National News
Mark your calendar: 2021 Spring Golf Outing will be held June 12
Apr. 20, 2021 | Local 355 members and retirees are invited to sign up for our Spring Golf event to be held at Queenstown Harbor in Queenstown, Maryland, Saturday, June 12. We’re limited to the first 60 golfers to sign up. Click here for details.
Tribune sticking with Alden offer for now
Apr. 14, 2021 | Update 4/19: After Wyss backs out, Alden Global regains upper hand in bid for Tribune but Bainum remains committed to purchasing the newspaper chain. The special committee of Tribune Publishing’s board of directors continues to recommend shareholders approve a buyout of the company by Alden Global Capital even as it considers a higher offer from Stewart Bainum Jr. and his business partner, Hansjörg Wyss. In an updated filing Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the newspaper group cited a number of factors in the reasoning to endorse Alden’s deal, valued at about $630 million, over a tentative $680 million offer by Bainum and Wyss… Baltimore Sun
Harris, Rosen applaud Teamsters’ role in vaccine rollout
Apr. 13, 2021 | The Teamsters understand what is at stake when it comes to combatting the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Teamsters have been working on the front lines during the pandemic, keeping our communities safe and our economy moving. The union is doing all it can to not only deliver the COVID-19 vaccine but to create opportunities for members to be vaccinated as well. And those efforts are not lost on elected officials, who are noticing and giving thanks to the union… Continue reading at TeamstersElsewhere in the News Investing in Workers Means Justice for Retirees, A Leg Up for the Middle Clas Apr. 20, 2021 | OPINION | When work has dignity, everyone can earn a secure retirement. Pensions are critical to the economic security of families who depend on these benefits to afford the rent or the mortgage, their prescription drugs and medical bills, and more. Multiemployer plans allow union workers with different employers to earn and save for a secure retirement, making it easier for workers to move between employers in industries like plumbing or trucking while earning a pension. They allow small businesses that want to do right by their workers, but who are too small to set up pension plans on their own… U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) at Cleveland.com
Miners’ Union Backs Shift From Coal in Exchange for Jobs Weekly News Wrap-Up: 4/16/2021 • California port truck drivers strike
• Labor after Bessemer
• The long struggle against giving up
• 1,300 steelworkers strike in five states
• A year in the life of Safeway 1048
• The shifting composition of unions
• Public opinion on unions has remained high for decades
• OSHA preparing emergency rules to protect workers from Covid
• New cross-border trucking rule will protect Teamster drivers
• Terminal at Port of LA impacted by truck driver strikeAmazon Union Vote Shows Why We Need the PRO Act America Needs to Empower Workers Again