Today in 2004 Nearly 100,000 unionized SBC Communications Inc. workers begin a four-day strike to protest the local phone giant’s latest contract offer.
• Frito-Lay workers celebrate successful strike • Teamsters establish a beachhead at XPO • Corporations aren’t going to save America • Teamsters support Fair and Open Skies Act • A devastating plant shutdown looms in West Virginia • ‘We all quit’: How workers are taking back their power • Administration moves to tilt pay and power toward workers • How unions and their allies are trying to hold Amazon accountable • Covid variant adds to worker anxieties. • Turn off, turn on: A simple step to thwart phone hackers
General Membership Meetings Members in attendance at the May meetings voted to suspend membership meetings for June, July, and August.
