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January 25, 2021
> And win they did. Beginning last Sunday, Barry and 1,400 other members of Teamsters Local 202, many of whom are immigrants, walked off the job. Hundreds of workers and their supporters camped outside the gates of the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market, which is located in the South Bronx, refusing to return to work until the management agreed to raise their hourly wages by one dollar and improve their health plan. The strike gained nationwide attention when on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, skipped the Inauguration of President Biden to instead walk the picket line with the workers.
>The strike is the first time workers at the market have walked off the job in 35 years. Until Friday night, management refused to budge from their counteroffer of a 32 cent raise. However, with reduced staff, management struggled to keep up; threatening to choke the region’s food supply.
>On Saturday morning, after hours of late-night negotiations, the union reached an agreement with management that won the largest raises in the history of the union’s bargaining unit. In the new contract, workers will earn a minimum 70 cents-per-hour raise in the first year, eventually earning a $1.85 raise over three years. In response, workers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new contract and voted to end the strike.
At the Hunts Point Produce Market, Essential Workers Have Won a Major Labor Battle
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Unionized workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market began a strike after management refused to raise their wages. On Saturday, they announced they had won an 70 cent-per-hour raiseSolidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union!
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January 24, 2021
> The Chicago Teachers Union said on Sunday its members had voted to defy an order to return to the classroom because of concerns about Covid-19, setting up a showdown with district officials who have said that refusing to return when ordered would amount to an illegal strike.
Teamsters at Marathon Refinery begin strike
Teamsters at Marathon Refinery begin strike
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St. Paul Park, MN - On January 21, nearly 200 members of Teamsters Local 120 who work at Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Saint Paul Park walked off the job, beginning an unfair labor practice strike. I...January 20, 2022
> Another culprit is the huge multinational Veolia/Transdev, which has been involved in privatizing water and transportation departments since the mid-19th century. This company, a notorious union buster, has been blamed for undermining water quality in municipalities all over the world.
>In 2015 Flint’s emergency manager authorized a $40,000 study of Flint’s water quality issues to be conducted by Veolia. The company’s study failed to mention the risk of lead poisoning and Legionnaires’ and did not recommend switching to another water source, such as DWSD. A state lawsuit against Veolia is still unresolved, even after other parties sued agreed to a $600 million settlement to assist Flint in making its water infrastructure safe.
>Real justice will mean jail for all of the politicians and corporate heads responsible for poisoning an impoverished Black-majority city. Real justice means full reparations for the people of Flint.
www.workers.org/2021/01/53975/
Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor
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In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., made the fatal decision to switch its water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the heavily contaminated Flint River. Flint residents have wait...Local 8751 President André François speaks at “Martin Luther King Day March 4 Justice” organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality in Boston’s Grove Hall, Roxbury. January 18, 2021
Andre Francois, PRES. OF LOCAL 8751, SPEAKING AT GROVE HALL RALLY PRECEDING 1/18/21 MAAPB MARTIN LUTHER KING BOSTON MARCH FOR JUSTICE Monday, Martin Luther King Day, 1/18/21, hundreds of protesters organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality and families impacted by police violence , families of Burrell Ramsey-White, Ross Batista, Usaamah Rahim, Terrence Coleman, Juston Root, Chris Divens, activists from the Black community and allies, assembled and rallied at the Grove Hall Library in Dorchester at 1pm, followed by a MARCH FOR JUSTICE through the streets of Boston’s Black community in Nubian Square in Roxbury to our final destination rally at Bivins Court Park in the South End to demand justice in the ongoing pandemic of police brutality and racism; and to denounce the cop-infested Washington D.C. January 6 white supremacist Trump instigated violent riot and storming of Congress that was in the process of presidential electoral vote counting in a coup attempt that met little or no resistance. The treatment of the Trump organized rioters contrasted sharply with the treatment of protesters opposing police brutality and police murders of peoples of color over the summer months. Part of the reason for the difference in treatment is that the Trump supporter armed rioters were aided by some of the Capitol police who were captured on social media videos moving barricades allowing the mob through and taking selfies with them. The mob was riddled with right-wing militias including cops, cop backers, a number of highly trained ex-military, and staunch opponents of the movement against police brutality and racism. While Biden and his cabinet dismay and call for the restoration of order and democracy, families impacted by police violence have been campaigning for basic democratic rights to be respected in red and blue states and municipalities across the country, highlighted most recently by the government's refusal to charge the officer that shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake of Kenosha, WI, shooting him 7 times in the back. “It is the mass movement sparked in response to police brutality and racism that is the moral compass of the country and the true defender of democracy," said Brock Satter, one of the Mass Action Against Police Brutality organizers. The Biden Administration tipped its hand by picking Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his labor secretary. Recently released body camera footage shows a slew of violent yet unsurprising behavior from Boston Police officers that is further evidence of the Boston Police Department’s culture of abusive, belligerent policing. In the clips, BPD officers seem to relish pepper spraying peaceful protestors, shoving people down with batons, or running people down in police vehicles. Mass Action Against Police Brutality calls for the prosecution and firing of all involved officers, whether they participated in the violence on the ground or were neglectful and complicit in the coverup of the abuse afterwards. All officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and superintendents who partook and/or oversaw police abuse must be held accountable. Similarly, politicians who stand idly by are complicit in this abuse are demonstrating their inability to represent their constituents and must be removed from office. Predictably, Mayor Walsh, who regularly gives a blind eye or downplays brutal acts of police, refused to sign the city ordinances restricting police weapons. Walsh should be condemned and the country notified. BPD officers can not be trusted with batons or cop cars, let alone rubber bullets, tear gas, or pepper spray. Mass Action Against Police Brutality is calling on all prosecutors to immediately drop charges on any protestors arrested during these and other protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Anyone remaining in police custody from these protests should be released. Demands raised in the rally & march: 1. Jail Killer Cops! Reopen All Past Cases of Police Brutality! 2. Exonerate and Free All Wrongfully Convicted! 3. Fire and Prosecute Police Guilty of Assaulting Protesters and Ban All Use of Rubber Bullets and Chemical Weapons on Protesters! 4. Drop All Charges Against Protesters! 5. End Forced Separation of Families by I.C.E. and Prosecute All Officials Responsible for Violating I.C.E. Detainee’s Human Rights! 6. Raise the Minimum Wage to a Livable Wage Now! For Immediate Pandemic Relief, Temporary Ban on Evictions, and Immediate Aid to All Struggling Families and Small Businesses! 7. Rename Faneuil Hall! Rename Peters Park to Terrance Coleman Park! Remove Mulligan Plaque! www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=Howie.Rotman&set=a.10208626943548260
A Powerful Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday to All!
Local 8751 is proud to endorse all anti-racist MLK Day events today.
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Black Lives Matter - Boston
Rally Against White Supremacy
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A Powerful Rev. Martin Luthern King, Jr. Birthday to All!
Local 8751 is proud to endorse this and all anti-racist MLK Day events.
Local 8751 is seeking volunteers to assist march leaders with keeping people safe.
Please contact Andre Francois or Steve Gillis.
Mass Action Against Police Brutality
"MLK Day March for Justice" on Monday 1/18 starts at 1pm in Grove Hall.
Hit the streets for justice and in support of the fight for our demands!
MLK Day March For Justice Demands:
1. Jail Killer Cops! Reopen All Past Cases of Police Brutality!
2. Exonerate and Free All Wrongfully Convicted!
3. Fire and Prosecute Police Guilty of Assaulting Protesters and Ban All Use of Rubber Bullets and Chemical Weapons on Protesters!
4. Drop All Charges Against Protesters!
5. End Forced Separation of Families by I.C.E. and Prosecute All Officials Responsible for Violating I.C.E. Detainee's Human Rights!
6. Raise the Minimum Wage to a Livable Wage Now! For Immediate Pandemic Relief, Temporary Ban on Evictions, and Immediate Aid to All Struggling Families and Small Businesses!
7. Rename Faneuil Hall! Rename Peters Park to Terrance Coleman Park! Remove Mulligan Plaque!
More details at Facebook:
fb.me/e/3CvmylhXx
Are gig workers employees? The debate in Mass. heats up - The Boston Globe
Are gig workers employees? The debate in Mass. heats up - The Boston Globe
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Uber, Lyft, and and other gig-economy businesses — emboldened by a successful November ballot initiative in California that defined their workers as contractors — are pursuing similar victories el...Excerpt from Communications Workers of America :
White supremacy is a poison that has been with us since the beginning of our country, and the confederate flag is its symbol, meant to subjugate and terrorize Black, brown, Asian and Pacific Islander and Indigenous people. That was the goal of this mob and the President who asked them to assemble on his behalf.
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Local 8751 is proud to endorse all anti-racist MLK Day events
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January 25, 2021
> And win they did. Beginning last Sunday, Barry and 1,400 other members of Teamsters Local 202, many of whom are immigrants, walked off the job. Hundreds of workers and their supporters camped outside the gates of the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market, which is located in the South Bronx, refusing to return to work until the management agreed to raise their hourly wages by one dollar and improve their health plan. The strike gained nationwide attention when on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, skipped the Inauguration of President Biden to instead walk the picket line with the workers.
>The strike is the first time workers at the market have walked off the job in 35 years. Until Friday night, management refused to budge from their counteroffer of a 32 cent raise. However, with reduced staff, management struggled to keep up; threatening to choke the region’s food supply.
>On Saturday morning, after hours of late-night negotiations, the union reached an agreement with management that won the largest raises in the history of the union’s bargaining unit. In the new contract, workers will earn a minimum 70 cents-per-hour raise in the first year, eventually earning a $1.85 raise over three years. In response, workers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new contract and voted to end the strike.
At the Hunts Point Produce Market, Essential Workers Have Won a Major Labor Battle
documentedny.com
Unionized workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market began a strike after management refused to raise their wages. On Saturday, they announced they had won an 70 cent-per-hour raiseSolidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union!
#safetyfirst
January 24, 2021
> The Chicago Teachers Union said on Sunday its members had voted to defy an order to return to the classroom because of concerns about Covid-19, setting up a showdown with district officials who have said that refusing to return when ordered would amount to an illegal strike.
Teamsters at Marathon Refinery begin strike
Teamsters at Marathon Refinery begin strike
www.fightbacknews.org
St. Paul Park, MN - On January 21, nearly 200 members of Teamsters Local 120 who work at Marathon Petroleum Refinery in Saint Paul Park walked off the job, beginning an unfair labor practice strike. I...January 20, 2022
> Another culprit is the huge multinational Veolia/Transdev, which has been involved in privatizing water and transportation departments since the mid-19th century. This company, a notorious union buster, has been blamed for undermining water quality in municipalities all over the world.
>In 2015 Flint’s emergency manager authorized a $40,000 study of Flint’s water quality issues to be conducted by Veolia. The company’s study failed to mention the risk of lead poisoning and Legionnaires’ and did not recommend switching to another water source, such as DWSD. A state lawsuit against Veolia is still unresolved, even after other parties sued agreed to a $600 million settlement to assist Flint in making its water infrastructure safe.
>Real justice will mean jail for all of the politicians and corporate heads responsible for poisoning an impoverished Black-majority city. Real justice means full reparations for the people of Flint.
www.workers.org/2021/01/53975/
Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor
www.workers.org
In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., made the fatal decision to switch its water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the heavily contaminated Flint River. Flint residents have wait...Local 8751 President André François speaks at “Martin Luther King Day March 4 Justice” organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality in Boston’s Grove Hall, Roxbury. January 18, 2021
Andre Francois, PRES. OF LOCAL 8751, SPEAKING AT GROVE HALL RALLY PRECEDING 1/18/21 MAAPB MARTIN LUTHER KING BOSTON MARCH FOR JUSTICE Monday, Martin Luther King Day, 1/18/21, hundreds of protesters organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality and families impacted by police violence , families of Burrell Ramsey-White, Ross Batista, Usaamah Rahim, Terrence Coleman, Juston Root, Chris Divens, activists from the Black community and allies, assembled and rallied at the Grove Hall Library in Dorchester at 1pm, followed by a MARCH FOR JUSTICE through the streets of Boston’s Black community in Nubian Square in Roxbury to our final destination rally at Bivins Court Park in the South End to demand justice in the ongoing pandemic of police brutality and racism; and to denounce the cop-infested Washington D.C. January 6 white supremacist Trump instigated violent riot and storming of Congress that was in the process of presidential electoral vote counting in a coup attempt that met little or no resistance. The treatment of the Trump organized rioters contrasted sharply with the treatment of protesters opposing police brutality and police murders of peoples of color over the summer months. Part of the reason for the difference in treatment is that the Trump supporter armed rioters were aided by some of the Capitol police who were captured on social media videos moving barricades allowing the mob through and taking selfies with them. The mob was riddled with right-wing militias including cops, cop backers, a number of highly trained ex-military, and staunch opponents of the movement against police brutality and racism. While Biden and his cabinet dismay and call for the restoration of order and democracy, families impacted by police violence have been campaigning for basic democratic rights to be respected in red and blue states and municipalities across the country, highlighted most recently by the government's refusal to charge the officer that shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake of Kenosha, WI, shooting him 7 times in the back. “It is the mass movement sparked in response to police brutality and racism that is the moral compass of the country and the true defender of democracy," said Brock Satter, one of the Mass Action Against Police Brutality organizers. The Biden Administration tipped its hand by picking Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his labor secretary. Recently released body camera footage shows a slew of violent yet unsurprising behavior from Boston Police officers that is further evidence of the Boston Police Department’s culture of abusive, belligerent policing. In the clips, BPD officers seem to relish pepper spraying peaceful protestors, shoving people down with batons, or running people down in police vehicles. Mass Action Against Police Brutality calls for the prosecution and firing of all involved officers, whether they participated in the violence on the ground or were neglectful and complicit in the coverup of the abuse afterwards. All officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and superintendents who partook and/or oversaw police abuse must be held accountable. Similarly, politicians who stand idly by are complicit in this abuse are demonstrating their inability to represent their constituents and must be removed from office. Predictably, Mayor Walsh, who regularly gives a blind eye or downplays brutal acts of police, refused to sign the city ordinances restricting police weapons. Walsh should be condemned and the country notified. BPD officers can not be trusted with batons or cop cars, let alone rubber bullets, tear gas, or pepper spray. Mass Action Against Police Brutality is calling on all prosecutors to immediately drop charges on any protestors arrested during these and other protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Anyone remaining in police custody from these protests should be released. Demands raised in the rally & march: 1. Jail Killer Cops! Reopen All Past Cases of Police Brutality! 2. Exonerate and Free All Wrongfully Convicted! 3. Fire and Prosecute Police Guilty of Assaulting Protesters and Ban All Use of Rubber Bullets and Chemical Weapons on Protesters! 4. Drop All Charges Against Protesters! 5. End Forced Separation of Families by I.C.E. and Prosecute All Officials Responsible for Violating I.C.E. Detainee’s Human Rights! 6. Raise the Minimum Wage to a Livable Wage Now! For Immediate Pandemic Relief, Temporary Ban on Evictions, and Immediate Aid to All Struggling Families and Small Businesses! 7. Rename Faneuil Hall! Rename Peters Park to Terrance Coleman Park! Remove Mulligan Plaque! www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=Howie.Rotman&set=a.10208626943548260
A Powerful Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday to All!
Local 8751 is proud to endorse all anti-racist MLK Day events today.
Local 8751 is seeking volunteers to hold our banner high and assist march leaders with keeping people safe.
Please contact Andre Francois or Steve Gillis by replying to this text.
Join Local 8751 TODAY at
> 12:30 PM
Mass Action Against Police Brutality
"MLK Day March for Justice"
Grove Hall Public Library
41 Geneva Ave, Dorchester
More details at Facebook:
fb.me/e/3CvmylhXx
> 3:00 PM
Black Lives Matter - Boston
Rally Against White Supremacy
Madison Park High
More details at Facebook:
fb.me/e/54t7bYxjg
A Powerful Rev. Martin Luthern King, Jr. Birthday to All!
Local 8751 is proud to endorse this and all anti-racist MLK Day events.
Local 8751 is seeking volunteers to assist march leaders with keeping people safe.
Please contact Andre Francois or Steve Gillis.
Mass Action Against Police Brutality
"MLK Day March for Justice" on Monday 1/18 starts at 1pm in Grove Hall.
Hit the streets for justice and in support of the fight for our demands!
MLK Day March For Justice Demands:
1. Jail Killer Cops! Reopen All Past Cases of Police Brutality!
2. Exonerate and Free All Wrongfully Convicted!
3. Fire and Prosecute Police Guilty of Assaulting Protesters and Ban All Use of Rubber Bullets and Chemical Weapons on Protesters!
4. Drop All Charges Against Protesters!
5. End Forced Separation of Families by I.C.E. and Prosecute All Officials Responsible for Violating I.C.E. Detainee's Human Rights!
6. Raise the Minimum Wage to a Livable Wage Now! For Immediate Pandemic Relief, Temporary Ban on Evictions, and Immediate Aid to All Struggling Families and Small Businesses!
7. Rename Faneuil Hall! Rename Peters Park to Terrance Coleman Park! Remove Mulligan Plaque!
More details at Facebook:
fb.me/e/3CvmylhXx
Are gig workers employees? The debate in Mass. heats up - The Boston Globe
Are gig workers employees? The debate in Mass. heats up - The Boston Globe
www.bostonglobe.com
Uber, Lyft, and and other gig-economy businesses — emboldened by a successful November ballot initiative in California that defined their workers as contractors — are pursuing similar victories el...Excerpt from Communications Workers of America :
White supremacy is a poison that has been with us since the beginning of our country, and the confederate flag is its symbol, meant to subjugate and terrorize Black, brown, Asian and Pacific Islander and Indigenous people. That was the goal of this mob and the President who asked them to assemble on his behalf.
portside.org/2021-01-07/labor-denounces-coup-attempt
portside.org
Expressions of anger, outrage and determination to hold fast to democratic values and worker solidarity were issued by many unionists and union leaders in response to the attempted coup by Trump suppo...Notices
