Today in 1913 President William Howard Taft signs legislation creating the Department of Labor. Former United Mine Workers Secretary Treasurer William B. Wilson is named to lead the new department. ~ Labor Tribune
• Teamsters at Republic Services authorize a strike • Washington Senate votes to ban ‘captive audience meetings’ • US flight attendants picket at 30 major airports • California fast-food workers launch new union • Brewery strike looms at Molson Coors plant in Texas • 1,700 Disneyland employees announce plan to unionize • Journalists turn to picket lines as the news business ails • ‘Unions are laboratories of democracy’: Labor reporter on the power of Labor • Teamsters, lawmakers demand neutrality from Delta Airlines CEO • ‘If you get everything you ask for in a negotiation, you didn’t ask for enough.’ • Amazon joins companies arguing NLRB is unconstitutional • Washington State Teamsters lead the way with pro-worker bills • Anheuser-Busch Teamsters rally ahead of possible strike
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - Mar. 3 @ 10 a.m. Salisbury - Mar. 17 @ 10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!
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