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
• Biden: ‘Union workers are the best’ • Women speak up about harassment in trucking • Apple store in Maryland third to launch union drive • Not everything sucks. Organized labor is rising • Amazon urged to fight on after Staten Island push fails • Starbucks win an election in Baltimore, two in Metro DC • What unions are doing to protect American democracy • Women truckers challenge industry to end harassment, violence on the job • Frontline workers excluded from employer pandemic windfalls. No wonder so many are forming unions. • A new vision for the Motion Picture Division
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!
