'A Fighter for Working People Who Set the Highest Standard of Solidarity'
Working families in Texas are mourning Emmett Sheppard, a former Texas AFL-CIO President who built the state labor federation's voice and capacity against long political odds. Sheppard died Saturday at the age of 77.
One of Washingon’s largest licensed marijuana retailers has inked a union contract to cover 134 workers at five locations, helping it provide employee benefits while navigating the difficult waters of federal law.
Ryan Kunkel, CEO and founder of Have a Heart, said the agreement with the United Food & Commercial Workers union Local 21 solves a problem for the company, which has ambitious plans to grow in a half-dozen other states.
“For better part of 3 years we have been trying to figure out how to provide basic things like health care benefits,” he said in an interview.
Officials in the building trades say their members, who take physically demanding jobs and risk serious injuries that often require pain medication, are uniquely predisposed to addiction.
A federal district judge in Washington struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that President Trumpsigned in late Maythat would have made it easier to fire federal employees.
Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen
on Thursday, August 23 2018 - 2:26pm
We’re bringing you a special episode this week. Last week, Sarah was in New Orleans for Netroots Nation, and this week we bring you the recording of the panel,What’s a Strike and How Can I Help?, designed to explain to labor rookies what goes into planning a strike, building community support, and successfully pulling one off.
Maddin won his case, but it’s Gorsuch’s world we’re living in.According to an AFL-CIO report, 5,190 workers died on the job in the United States in 2016. Another 50,000 to 60,000 die annually of occupational diseases, and nearly 4 million experienced work-related injuries or illnesses.
In response to a procedural order by the 3rdCourt of Appeals that delays implementation of Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance, Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy today issued the following statement:
The temporary restraining order holding up Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance cannot restrain the will of working people to achieve a decent policy that lets them earn the right to stay home when they or family members are sick.
