Site Map Icon
RSS Feed icon
 
 
 

July 11, 2025

Today in 1916
 The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce held a mass meeting of more than 2,000 merchants to organize what was to become a frontal assault on union strength and the closed shop. The failure of wages to keep up with inflation after the 1906 earthquake had spurred multiple strikes in the city.  
 

Member Login
Username:

Password:


Not registered yet?
Click Here to sign-up

Forgot Your Login?



The Best Way to Secure LGBTQ Rights: Unions
Posted On: Jun 14, 2024
June 14, 2024 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | […] Now is an appropriate time to assess why queer advocacy seems commonsense to many of today’s unionized workers. One answer is that unions promoting LGBTQ issues can deliver — through negotiations — often more readily than civil rights law or supposedly progressive corporations can. However, inspiring as an unabashedly queer working-class politics might be — that is, an approach to labor struggle that centers specific LGBTQ reforms such as antidiscrimination contract provisions and trans-inclusive health care plans — organized labor’s ability to improve queer workers’ lives stems ultimately from its power to raise standards for all workers. This is in no small part because the basic union contract gains that positively impact LGBTQ workers are essentially the same ones that address the health, income, and housing needs of all workers. Jacobin
 
 
Teamsters Local 355
Copyright © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
Powered By UnionActive™

1337555 hits since
Visit Unions-America.com!

Top of Page image