Superior Ambulance Workers Join Teamsters
(NAPERVILLE, Ill.) – Workers at Superior Ambulance that provide emergency medical response for Edwards Ambulance Services (EAS) have voted to join Teamsters Local 743. The EAS Superior workers contacted Local 743 after enduring years of no raises, high health care premiums, and safety concerns. “We voted for Teamsters representation because we were tired of not […]
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IAM Mourns On-Job Death of Member at Charlotte International Airport
The IAM released the following statement following the tragic on-the-job death of a member at Charlotte Douglas International Airport: “An IAM member has lost their life on the job at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The IAM is coordinating with authorities to conduct a full investigation. The IAM has dispatched a safety committee and EAP representatives
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IAFF releases second course on workplace violence prevention
Learn how to protect yourself from workplace violence in a new online course that is free to members.
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IAFF secures five-year reaccreditation by Pro Board to continue life-saving training
The IAFF’s reaccreditation ensures members receive top-tier HazMat and confined space certification, preparing them for high-risk emergencies with national and international safety standards.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: UAW Welcomes Stellantis Recommitment to Restart Illinois Factory After Pressure Campaign
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: UAW Welcomes Stellantis Recommitment to Restart Illinois Factory After Pressure Campaign
Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
After months of the UAW organizing to keep the manufacturer accountable, Stellantis announced last week it will be producing a new mid-sized pickup truck at its shuttered assembly plant in Illinois and building the next-generation Dodge Durango SUV in Detroit.Stellantis—which owns Chrysler, Jeep, Ram and other brands—closed the Belvidere facility in 2023, then later that year agreed to reopen it as part of an agreement with the UAW. The corporation attempted to walk back that promise in August 2024, prompting the union to launch its Keep the Promise campaign that included demonstrations, grievance filings and other actions.“This victory is a testament to the power of workers standing together and holding a billion-dollar corporation accountable,” said UAW President Shawn Fain in a press release. “We’ve shown that we will do what it takes to protect the good union jobs that are the lifeblood of places like Belvidere, Detroit, Kokomo, and beyond.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Tue, 01/28/2025 – 10:13
MPWU 2025 Educational Assembly
Room rate: $119.00/night + taxes for In-land rooms; $139.00/night+taxes for Lakeside rooms | Use code: APWU25 to receive negotiated rate. | Registration: $100 prior to March 30; after $125.
May 1, 2025 – 8:30AM to May 3, 2025 – 5:30PMTerrace Bay Hotel7146 P. Road
Gladstone, MI 49837
LocalNoYes2025-01-27 00:00:00MPWU 2025 Educational AssemblyHotel Information
Terrace Bay Hotel
7146 P. Road
Gladstone, MI 49837
(906) 786-7554
Room Rate and Reservations: $119.00 (Inland Rooms) per night (plus applicable taxes)
$139.00 (Lakeside Rooms) per night (plus applicable taxes)
Use Code: APWU25 to receive negotiated rate.
Directions to Hotel: Click here for Google Maps link.
Flying into the area – the closest airport is Delta County Airport (ESC) (Escanba Airport) and only has flights with Delta Airlines (Sky West). There is a Enterprise Car Rental in the airport. (The closest larger airport is Green Bay, located 2 hours (117 miles away) with Delta, United, Frontier, American, and Sun Country.)
Registration
$100.00 (prior to March 30, 2025); $125.00 (after April 1)
Schedule
Itinerary
Class
Instructor (if known)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. – Midnight
Hospitality
498-499 Area Local – Host
Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Class Instructions (Itineray Coming)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
MPWU Executive Board meeting
6:00 p.m. – Midnight
Hospitality
498-499 Area Local – Host
Friday, May 2, 2025
9:00a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Class Instructions (Itinerary Coming)
6:00 p.m. – Midnight
Hospitality
498-499 Area Local – Host
Saturday, May 3, 2025
9:00a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Class Instructions (Itineray Coming)
6:00 p.m. – Midnight
Hospitality
498-499 Area Local – Host
All times listed are subject to change. Due to training schedule with the instructors, they may change the order of instructors or such.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Health Care Workers Ratify New Contract with UM Health-Sparrow
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Health Care Workers Ratify New Contract with UM Health-Sparrow
Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
Nurses and health care professionals at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow voted to approve a new contract with 95% approval, averting a planned five-day strike. The Professional Employee Council of Sparrow Hospital-Michigan Nurses Association (PECSH-MNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), said the contract runs until Oct. 30, 2027, and covers some 2,000 workers.The new contract includes competitive wage increases (with most members receiving between a 20% and 32% raise); large increases in differentials for night shift, evening shift, and weekend work; a guaranteed health care plan equal or better to the union plan the employer is ending; a permanent decrease in the cost of members’ premium contribution to Blue Cross Blue Shield; new language guaranteeing no permanent replacement of positions with subcontractors; and maintenance of open postings for these positions, extended COVID-19 protections for members, increased benefits for employees injured by workplace violence, vacation accrual for salaried members on paid-out comp time, and a ratification bonus.“We’re really proud that we as a union stood strong to get what nurses and healthcare professionals at Sparrow need and deserve,” said Leah Rasch, RN and co-chair of the elected PECSH-MNA bargaining team. “This is one of the best contracts anyone can remember at our hospital. A great agreement for our members is a win for all of us, because it will help make sure Sparrow can attract and keep enough nurses and health care workers to take excellent care of our community.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Mon, 01/27/2025 – 10:20
UNION PLUS – AUTO INSURANCE
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Keep the Promise: The Working People Weekly List
Keep the Promise: The Working People Weekly List
Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List.
Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union: “Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia voted on Monday to become the first unionized store in Amazon’s grocery chain, opening a new front in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to fend off labor organizing in multiple segments of its business. Employees at the sprawling Whole Foods store, in the city’s Spring Garden neighborhood, voted 130-100 in favor of organizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers union, the National Labor Relations Board said.”Las Vegas Hotel Workers Union Reaches Deal with Casino to End Strike: “Hundreds of workers at a Las Vegas hotel and casino who have been on strike for more than two months will go back to work after agreeing to a new contract Wednesday. The Culinary Workers Union and an affiliated bartenders union, which together represented about 700 striking workers at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, announced the employees had unanimously approved a five-year deal. The unions and the hotel said in a joint statement that they are ‘pleased to be moving past their contract negotiations as each looks forward to fostering a positive and collaborative working relationship for the benefit of all team members at the property.’”Healthcare Worker Union Ratifies New Contract with UM Health-Sparrow: “Nurses and healthcare professionals at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow voted to approve a new contract, the Michigan Nurses Association announced Thursday afternoon. The vote passed with 95% approval, averting a planned five-day strike. Members of the Professional Employee Council of Sparrow Hospital-Michigan Nurses Association (PECSH-MNA) began voting on Monday. Voting ended Thursday and was tallied that same afternoon. Workers would have gone on strike if the contract had not been approved.”UAW Forces Stellantis to Keep Promises, Wins Back Thousands of Jobs: “After months of campaigns, rallies, grievances filed, and strike votes taken, the United Auto Workers have just won back thousands of jobs in a new agreement with Stellantis. The union’s ‘Keep The Promise’ campaign kicked off after the company reneged on a number of key issues that the workers and their union won in their historic 2023 Stand Up Strike. ‘This victory is a testament to the power of workers standing together and holding a billion-dollar corporation accountable,’ Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, and Kevin Gotkinsky, UAW Stellantis Department Director, said in a statement released Wednesday morning.”Workers at Genesis HealthCare Ratify First Contract with UFCW Local 152: “Workers at the Genesis HealthCare assisted living facility in Millville voted to ratify their first union contract on Jan. 9, giving them a voice on the job and secured wages and benefits. The workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 152, voted unanimously to accept their three-year agreement.”Justice Demands That Colorado Legislators Modernize the State’s Labor Law This Session (Fredrick D. Redmond): “Colorado’s outdated labor law is rooted in unmistakable racism. Now is the time to modernize the law to provide all workers—especially workers of color—with the freedom to organize a union so they can openly voice their opinions at work and negotiate on safety and pay. Colorado’s economy was very different 81 years ago, when our current labor law was passed. In 1943, Colorado’s total population was just over a million people. One of the biggest employers was the Denver Ordnance Plant, where almost 20,000 workers produced bullets for the World War II war effort in three shifts around the clock. And more than 7,000 Japanese-American citizens were prisoners at Camp Amache in Prowers County.”AFT President Randi Weingarten Discusses Resistance to Trump’s Education Policies: “What will resistance to Trump’s education policy look like this time around? NPR hears from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Randi Weingarten is the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers. It’s a union representing 1.8 million teachers nationwide. She joins us this morning by way of Skype. Randi, thanks for joining us. Now, how would the teachers you represent be affected by, say, a dismantled Department of Education if indeed he does that?”New Labor Coalition Wants Colorado’s Unions at the Forefront of the State’s Green Energy Transit: “In a classroom full of motors and switches, Dan Hendricks is going over what goes into a 3-5-year electrical apprenticeship. ‘This is towards the end of their apprenticeship, where they would learn motor control, different switching systems, things of that nature,’ he says, showing me a piece of machinery. ‘So as they progress, right, the work gets more interesting.’ He flicks a switch and triggers a sharp buzzing noise.”Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67: “Cecile Richards, the dynamic former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and one of the country’s most well-known defenders of abortion rights, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 67. She was diagnosed in 2023 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement. A former political organizer, Richards was a daughter of former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Mon, 01/27/2025 – 09:38
2025 New England States Convention
For more information, contact Dana Coletti, President Manchester Area Local 230 at dcoletti230@gmail.com
April 11, 2025 – 8:00AM to April 13, 2025 – 5:00PMPortsmouth Sheraton Harborside Hotel250 Market St,
Portsmouth, NH 03801
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