Today in 1999 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time.~ Today in Labor History
• Congress must fund the NLRB • What would it take for all rail workers to win? • Teamsters at UC ratify strongest-ever contract • The freight rail labor dispute was never about sick days • Watch: The new Teamsters - bigger, faster, stronger (listen here) • Costco ‘has taken a high road’ when it comes to unionization • Study: Prevalence of workplace violence, harassment across the globe • Wage theft spotlighted on late night…
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - May. 5@ 10 a.m. Salisbury - May 19 @10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!
