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5 days ago

Target workers at a New Jersey location are fed up with management and are rallying to become the first to unionize at the company.

“Former employees of the Target warehouse on High Street [in Perth Amboy, NJ] said conditions at the facility were ‘like a prison’ and workers were treated ‘like robots.’ ... See MoreSee Less

Target Warehouse Workers Rally To Become First Location In U.S. To Unionize

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Target workers at a New Jersey location are fed up with management and are rallying to become the first to unionize at the company. My Central New Jersey, a member of the USA Today network, reports:

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7 days ago

>Walmart workers staged a strike Tuesday demanding better wages, reliable and stable working hours, outside the building where Alice Walton, the heiress to the retailer's US$500 billion fortune, resides in New York.

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>The protest was in part a response to the so-called 'Great Workplace' company restructuring initiative that Walmart began testing last year and plans to roll out at least 1,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores by 2020.

>According to the Washington Post, the initiative would result in large staff cuts as it seeks to consolidate the responsibilities of several workers into one position, with hourly pay remaining the same or even dropping in some cases. ... See MoreSee Less

Walmart Workers Demand Fair Pay And Hours At Protest In NY

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The protest was in part a response to the so-called 'Great Workplace' company restructuring initiative that Walmart began testing last year.

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1 week ago

Hands Off Medicaid!
Healthcare Is A Human Right!
Medicare For All, Now!

February 14, 2020

> Medicaid is the backbone of a functioning community-based mental health system. It is the largest payer of behavioral health services, and in many communities, the only payer of intensive community-based services like Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), mobile crisis services, supported housing, and peer support. Yet time and again, the Trump administration has tried to slash Medicaid, threatening enrollees’ coverage and access to the services and supports. The President’s 2021 budget is no different—it calls for over $1 trillion in cuts of Medicaid and the ACA. Most of this would come from cuts in funding to Medicaid, including Medicaid expansion, which has been associated with reducing significant unmet mental health care needs. Such deep cuts would lead states to slash coverage and restrict services.

>Adding insult to injury, Trump has kept up a steady drumbeat for “more institutions.” This year’s budget includes an additional $5.9 billion over ten years for institutional services, primarily in the form of illegal waivers of a provision of the Medicaid Act that excludes federal financial reimbursement (FFP) for services provided in mental health and substance use disorder inpatient facilities with more than sixteen beds. These facilities are commonly referred to as IMDs, and the payment prohibition as the “IMD exclusion.” The IMD exclusion was enacted as part of Medicaid in 1965 against the backdrop of an unprecedented rise in the rate of individuals confined to institutions with horrendous conditions. Weakening the “IMD exclusion” while cutting funding for community-based mental health services would be a stark reversal of decades of progress, undermining the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Integration Mandate articulated by the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. ... See MoreSee Less

Trump Budget Takes Aim at Medicaid, Threatens Access to Quality Mental Health Care

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Medicaid is the backbone of a functioning community-based mental health system. It is the largest payer of behavioral health services, and in many communities, the only payer of intensive community-ba...

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1 week ago

February 17, 2020

> Police forces killed four anti-government protesters in Chile during the first week of February. In the U.S., revolutionary hip-hop artists Rebel Diaz played an East Coast tour to benefit organizations on the front line of the people’s rebellion in Chile. They include Hijos de la Primera Linea (Children of the First Line) and CODEPU (La Corporación de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo/Corporation for the Promotion and Defense of the Rights of the People).

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Rebel Diaz rocks Boston for Chile

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Boston Police forces killed four anti-government protesters in Chile during the first week of February. In the U.S., revolutionary hip-hop artists Rebel Diaz played an East Coast tour to benefit organ...

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1 week ago

Stop the illegal Zum-gig attack on the San Francisco school bus drivers and the students, families and communities they serve!

We want Safety for the Children!
Keep the Union Drivers!

> Some argued that using passenger cars sets a dangerous precedent that could replace school buses in the future. Others questioned how the company would continue service in light of the recent passage of AB5, the state law that aims to change how many independent contractors, particularly ride-hail drivers, are treated.

>”When the district proposes to use standard passenger cars, the extensive safety oversight, regulations and legal requirements for school buses and school bus drivers are thrown out the window and do not apply,” said Meg Felts, a bus driver who has worked with the district for 34 years.

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New S.F. school transit service raises bus drivers’ concerns - The San Francisco Examiner

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Union questions van company’s safety standards

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2 weeks ago

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Portland longshore workers resist union busting

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By Patrick Cate and Lyn Neeley Portland, Ore. In November a federal jury in Portland, Ore., fined the Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) $9.6 million. The jury sided with the Philippines-based Inter...

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2 weeks ago

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UC Santa Cruz Graduate Students Strike to Protest Unaffordable Housing Costs

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Hundreds of graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have gone on an open-ended strike to protest the unaffordable costs of living on their low teaching salaries. The strikers ar...

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2 weeks ago

This case was from its origin at the Obama "Justice" Department, picked up with gusto by the Trump administration's federal prosecutors, a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize and intimidate union pickets, union organizing, union wages and benefits, union enforcement of community standards and union labor agreements.

In fact, the demands on the multi-million dollar Boston Calling corporation by union stagehands (IATSE Local 11) to hire professional, safety-trained union workers came as Boston Calling in 2014 recruited all of its workers as "interns", forcing them to pay to work for Zero wages, with only a T-shirt for compensation.

This climate of boss/government anti-union intimidation resulted in the murder of a non-union stage worker - Brandon J. McSweeney, 34, of Sherborn, MA - in Copley Square this past First Night, when a 3,500-pound ballast was dropped off a scaffold and crushed him instantly.

Boston Calling, their scab event-industry ilk, and the federal prosecutor's office are an organized criminal outfit. Boston Calling should be boycotted and shut down unless it hires 100% IATSE union-wage, safety-trained workers.

February 12, 2020

>Moreover, the judge said, prosecutors failed to show that the defendants did anything legally wrong in furtherance of an extortion conspiracy, saying prosecutors cannot criminalize labor contract negotiations.

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Judge tosses convictions of two former aides to Mayor Walsh in Boston Calling case - The Boston Globe

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Lawyers argued that the aides had no control over the concert’s permits and that prosecutors were criminalizing the ordinary give-and-take of city politics.

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2 weeks ago

Now Hiring: U.S. Department of Anti-Labor

>Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, has hired two new people to work in this oversight role who has a long history of working against unions. Rusty Brown, worked as a union-avoidance consultant. He helped to decertify a union of 27,000 home care workers in Minnesota and pushed the Labor Department to investigate a prominent Texas worker center that was a vocal critic of dangerous conditions in the construction industry. He will begin work in the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS).

>The other hire, Trey Kovacs will work as a “special assistant” to OLMS. Kovacs previously worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute where he advocated for treating worker centers more like labor unions, requiring them to file detailed financial statements and oversight. He has also accused the department of dragging their feet on expanding union financial disclosures. According to his bio, Kovacs writing focuses on the adverse effects of public sector unions.

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Trump Hires Union Busters to Oversee Unions

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Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Two union busters have been hired by the DOL department that regulates organized labor by Brian Young on Feb 05, 2020 ucommblog.com Within the Department of...

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2 weeks ago

San Francisco Labor Council Resolution – Adopted Feb 10 2020 by unanimous vote

Abolish United States Imposed Economic Sanctions

Whereas sanctions and economic blockades are being imposed by the United States and its allies – in violation of international law – against countries that resist Washington’s neoliberal policies and regime change efforts; and

Whereas U.S. imposed sanctions are a form of economic warfare, causing death and suffering in some 39 countries with one-third of the world’s population as of 2019; and

Whereas U.S. imposed economic sanctions block access to fuel, raw materials and replacement parts interfering with the functioning of critical infrastructure i.e. electrical grids, water treatment & distribution facilities and hospitals;

Whereas in every country facing U.S. imposed economic sanctions, the most vulnerable – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly -- suffer the most; and

Whereas U.S. imposed sanctions involving asset freezes and property seizures are modern day piracy, allowing for massive redistributions of public wealth from sovereign countries into the accounts of U.S. banks and financial institutions; and

Whereas many organizations have been fighting U.S. imposed economic sanctions for some time independently, now is our opportunity to collectively seek the abolition of all United States imposed economic sanctions which in effect constitute undeclared war, therefore be it

Resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council go on record in opposition to United States imposed economic sanctions against other countries, and in support of the International Days of Action against U.S. imposed Sanctions and Economic Warfare during the month of March 2020. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

Rest in Power, Sanyi Keni Harris!

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MBTA employee killed on the job was loving mother of twins, family says - The Boston Globe

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MBTA bus driver Sanyi Harris was the dedicated mother of twins who had celebrated their 21st birthday just one week before dying in a crash at the Quincy Center Station busway on Saturday.

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3 weeks ago

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Resolution of United Steelworkers Local 8751 in solidarity with the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda

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The resolution below was passed unanimously at the monthly membership meeting of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, at the Boston Teachers Union hall, presided over b...

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3 weeks ago

30 Years After the historic federal civil rights victory of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), We Demand Elevators and Full Accessibility and Accommodations, Now!

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Justice for Malaysia Goodson -- Subway elevators NOW!

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New York City Malaysia Goodson, a 22-year-old African-American mother, fell down the stairs in a New York City subway station while carrying her baby in a stroller on Jan. 28, 2019. Her baby survived....

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Mary Wallace: The First Female Bus Driver for Chicago Transit Authority, Beginning in 1974

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In 1974, Englewood native, Mary Wallace, drove into history when she became the first woman to drive a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus. ...

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January 23, 2020

Resolution of United Steelworkers Local 8751 in Solidarity with
the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda

Whereas, USW Local 8751 represents over 1,000 school bus drivers in Boston and Randolph, MA, most of whose families are from Haiti, Cape Verde, Barbados, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Santo Domingo, Vietnam, Honduras, states of the U.S. South, homelands that experienced waves of successive enslavement, invasion and occupation since 1492 by armies from Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy and the United States, and;

Whereas, USW Local 8751 has since its founding worked to promote solidarity between our members, their families and Indigenous nations and organizations, to honor Indigenous nations and peoples upon whose land we work and currently live, including for decades supporting through our finances, attendance, logistical support and Union calendars and contract language the efforts of the Wampanoag nation and the United American Indians of New England, and;

Whereas, USW Local 8751 has for decades marked the fourth Thursday of November as a “National Day of Mourning” in Plymouth, MA, and the second Monday of October as “Indigenous Peoples Day”, joining justice-minded Unions, cities and towns from coast to coast working to rectify the centuries of racism, land-theft, genocide and mythology that accompanied European settler colonialism and that Indigenous peoples continue to experience today, therefore;

Be It Resolved that USW Local 8751 demands that the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Senate and Governor Baker immediately enact the full Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda to:

• Replace “Columbus Day” with “Indigenous Peoples Day” to honor and celebrate Indigenous resilience and survival. H.3665
• Change the Massachusetts Flag and Seal, which have kept a sword hanging over the heads of Native Americans for hundreds of years. H.2776/S.1877
• Protect Native American Heritage, and ensure Native American funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony held in governmental or non-profit collections are not sold for profit but returned to their peoples. H.2948/S.1811
• Remove and Prohibit Racist, Native American mascots in Massachusetts public schools. S.247/H.443
• Improve educational outcomes and opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students. H.444

Passed Unanimously at the duly noticed monthly Membership Meeting of United Steelworkers Local 8751 at the Boston Teachers Union hall, presided over by President André François, on January 23, 2020. ... See MoreSee Less

January 23, 2020

Resolution of United Steelworkers Local 8751 in Solidarity with
the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda

Whereas, USW Local 8751 represents over 1,000 school bus drivers in Boston and Randolph, MA, most of whose families are from Haiti, Cape Verde, Barbados, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Santo Domingo, Vietnam, Honduras, states of the U.S. South, homelands that experienced waves of successive enslavement, invasion and occupation since 1492 by armies from Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy and the United States, and;

Whereas, USW Local 8751 has since its founding worked to promote solidarity between our members, their families and Indigenous nations and organizations, to honor Indigenous nations and peoples upon whose land we work and currently live, including for decades supporting through our finances, attendance, logistical support and Union calendars and contract language the efforts of the Wampanoag nation and the United American Indians of New England, and;

Whereas, USW Local 8751 has for decades marked the fourth Thursday of November as a “National Day of Mourning” in Plymouth, MA, and the second Monday of October as “Indigenous Peoples Day”, joining justice-minded Unions, cities and towns from coast to coast working to rectify the centuries of racism, land-theft, genocide and mythology that accompanied European settler colonialism and that Indigenous peoples continue to experience today, therefore;

Be It Resolved that USW Local 8751 demands that the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Senate and Governor Baker immediately enact the full Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda to:

• Replace “Columbus Day” with “Indigenous Peoples Day” to honor and celebrate Indigenous resilience and survival. H.3665
• Change the Massachusetts Flag and Seal, which have kept a sword hanging over the heads of Native Americans for hundreds of years. H.2776/S.1877
• Protect Native American Heritage, and ensure Native American funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony held in governmental or non-profit collections are not sold for profit but returned to their peoples. H.2948/S.1811
• Remove and Prohibit Racist, Native American mascots in Massachusetts public schools. S.247/H.443
• Improve educational outcomes and opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students. H.444

Passed Unanimously at the duly noticed monthly Membership Meeting of United Steelworkers Local 8751 at the Boston Teachers Union hall, presided over by President André François, on January 23, 2020.

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Black History Month: ‘Stayed on freedom’

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Black History Month again offers us a chance to honor the body-and-spirit-filled determination of African-American people who have struggled, built and fought in order to win against the deeply violen...

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A sign of strong popular support for the strikes and union participation are the “Rosie the Riveter” performances at protests and marches that began in early January. YouTube videos, some receiving tens of thousands of views, document groups of women dancing, punching and kicking in chorus, dressed in workers’ blues with yellow gloves and red bandanas. ... See MoreSee Less

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> This Jan. 30, revolutionaries around the world marked the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a popular uprising backed by armed forces that changed the course of the U.S. war against Vietnam.

>Totally surprising the U.S. government and the military command of its occupation army of more than a half-million U.S. troops, tens of thousands of fighters of the National Liberation Front of Vietnam (NLF), supported by an ample civilian network and by their fellow Vietnamese from the north, launched a powerful popular uprising in 140 cities and towns across Vietnam. ... See MoreSee Less

Lessons of the 1968 Tet Offensive

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This Jan. 30, revolutionaries around the world marked the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a popular uprising backed by armed forces that changed the course of the U.S. war against Vietnam. Tota...

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San Francisco Labor Council Resolution: ”Support the rising anti-war and pro-peace movement”

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The following resolution was adopted Jan. 13 by unanimous vote of the San Francisco Labor Council. Whereas, President Trump has placed the whole world on alert and brought the United States closer to ...

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