Today in 2003 An estimated 3,300 sanitation workers working for private haulers in Chicago win a nine-day strike featuring a 28-percent wage increase over five years. ~ Labor Tribune
• Why are grocery bills so high? • Airgas Teamsters forced to strike • The sand that can’t stop • Can a national strike save a closed plant? • Dallas Black Dancers fight for their union • Biden signs pro-union labor standards executive order • The only major social institution whose public respect is rising: Unions • Poll shows the only union liked more by Republicans than Democrats • Burned-out firefighters fleeing US Forest Service amid labor disputes • All your questions answered on Covid shots (and how to lessen side effects) • Protesters call out Tesla for being only American car company not represented by union
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - Oct. 6 @ 10 a.m. Salisbury - Oct. 20 @ 10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!