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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: IAM Members at Pratt & Whitney Go on Strike
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: IAM Members at Pratt & Whitney Go on Strike
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.
Approximately 3,000 members of Machinists (IAM) locals 700 and 1746 in Connecticut rejected the latest proposal from their employer, Pratt & Whitney, and launched a work stoppage early Monday morning to secure a fair contract.Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of defense company RTX, produces engines for both commercial and military jets. Workers at the aerospace manufacturer voted with about 77% in support of a strike after management failed to provide a deal that sufficiently addressed concerns over wages, retirement and job security.“Pratt and Whitney is a powerhouse in military and commercial aerospace products because our membership makes it so,” said IAM Eastern Territory General Vice President David Sullivan. “This offer does not address the membership concerns, and the membership made their decision—we will continue to fight for a fair contract.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Tue, 05/06/2025 – 09:32
Get to Know AFL-CIO’s Affiliates: Actors and Artistes
Get to Know AFL-CIO’s Affiliates: Actors and Artistes
This is the next post in our series that will take a deeper look at each of our affiliates. The series will run weekly until we’ve covered all 63 of our affiliates. Next up is the Actors and Artistes (4As).
Name of Union: Associated Actors and Artistes of America.Current Leadership of Union: Gabrielle Carteris, president.Mission: The 4As works to advance and protect the welfare of the people who work to entertain and inform others in person and through every medium of recording and transmission. There are five member unions that make up the 4As. Actors’ Equity Association, the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and SAG-AFTRA are directly affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Two other unions are part of the AFL-CIO through their membership in the 4As: the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) and the Italian American Actors (GIAA). Administrative functions of the 4As are handled by the Department for Professional Employees (DPE).
American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA)Mission: To represent performing artists and stage managers for live performances in the variety field.Current Leadership of Union: Judy Little serves as executive president. Other officers include Christopher Johnson (executive vice president), Susanne K. Doris (executive secretary-treasurer), Thania Guzman (director of membership) and Darlene Wendy Frank (national comptroller).Members Work as: Variety performers, including singers and dancers in touring shows and in theatrical revues, theme park performers, skaters, circus performers, comedians and stand-up comics, cabaret and club artists, lecturers, poets, monologists, spokespersons, and those working at private parties and special events.Industries Represented: Any performances in the variety area.History: AGVA was founded in 1939.Current Campaigns and Community Efforts: The AGVA Welfare Trust Fund is a self-funded major medical insurance plan, governed by a board of trustees, for the purpose of providing medical, optical and dental insurance coverage to eligible AGVA performers. AGVA offers current and previous members assistance through the Margie Coate Sick and Relief Fund, which is also regularly involved with other industry-related charities that benefit AGVA members, such as the Entertainment Community Fund, Episcopal Actors’ Guild, Catholic Actors Guild, Better Wellness, the New York Health Fair, Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative, Central Labor Rehabilitation Council, St. Malachy’s Actors’ Chapel and various telethons. The fund also presents regular variety shows using the talents of AGVA member performers (for which they are paid a fee for expenses) at various senior citizen facilities, hospitals, care centers, schools and public service locations throughout the country. AGVA also provides members with visa application assistance. Learn More: Website, Facebook, X
Italian American Actors (GIAA)Mission: Helping advance, promote, foster and protect the welfare of its members within its own jurisdiction and its sister unions. To preserve the history and awareness of Italian heritage among its members.Current Leadership of Union: Carlo Fiorletta is the president of GIAA. Other officers include Carolyn McDonough (first vice president), Debbie Klaar (second vice president), Mara Lesemann (secretary/treasurer), Simcha Borenstein (councilor), Ashley Wagner (councilor), Ron Piretti (alternate councilor), Regina M. Cafarelli (alternate councilor), Elaine LeGaro (alternate councilor) and Paul Borghese (president emeritus).Members Work as: Actors.Industries Represented: The arts and entertainment industries.History: GIAA was founded in 1937 as the Italian Actors Union to provide a voice for small ethnic theater groups. Since the 1990s, the group has been known as the Guild of Italian American Actors. Current Campaigns and Community Efforts: GIAA provides news and casting opportunities to its members. If members choose to have their headshot and resume included on the website, their information will be available to casting directors and agents who regularly use the site as a resource.Learn More: Website, Facebook
Kenneth Quinnell
Mon, 05/05/2025 – 13:05
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profile: Angie Nguyen
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profile: Angie Nguyen
For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today’s profile is Angie Nguyen of AFSCME.
Angie Nguyen is a home care provider in California, caring for her mother and aunt, both in their 80s. Originally from Vietnam, she moved to California in 1993 through help from the Humanitarian Operation Program. Nguyen has been a proud United Domestic Workers (UDW/AFSCME) member since 2008 and currently serves as a board member, committed to lifting up home care and family child care providers, clients and communities through collective action. She has helped grow the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance’s (APALA’s) membership in Orange County, organized activists for community actions and local elections, and worked with the Orange County Labor Federation to advance APALA’s mission.
Kenneth Quinnell
Mon, 05/05/2025 – 10:24
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Unions Ask Congress to Demand That President Trump Reinstate Fired NIOSH Workers
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Unions Ask Congress to Demand That President Trump Reinstate Fired NIOSH Workers
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.
On Thursday, the AFL-CIO and 27 labor unions urged members of Congress to pressure the Trump administration to reverse its effort to gut the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). More than 85% of NIOSH staff have been placed on administrative leave and will be terminated in June without action. NIOSH plays a crucial role in protecting workers on the job, and without a fully staffed and functioning agency, the number of tragic and avoidable workplace injuries and fatalities will increase.“[I]n its attempt to restructure the Department of Health and Human Services using artificial intelligence, the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ functionally dismantled NIOSH—one of the most critical and impactful agencies to every worker in America, their families and to industries alike,” the labor organizations wrote. “This decision must be immediately reversed as it will take working conditions back centuries, when chronic occupational diseases and fatalities skyrocketed with no government agency to help identify causes and research interventions.”Read the full letter and list of signatories here.
Kenneth Quinnell
Mon, 05/05/2025 – 09:53
May Day Means Solidarity
May Day Means Solidarity
Today is May Day, or International Workers’ Day, the day the world celebrates the bravery of workers throughout history who have sacrificed for safety, dignity and justice on the job.
We’re united in our resolve to fight for a better future for ALL workers abroad and at home, including those targeted by the DOGE/Project 2025 Agenda.That includes our International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) brother Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was ripped away from his family in Maryland and sent to a prison in El Salvador, and our Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, taken while walking to dinner in Massachusetts and thrown into a detention center thousands of miles away.Neither of these workers committed a crime. Our solidarity is our strength. We take pride in knowing that we are a global movement standing up to the billionaires who are threatening our rights and freedoms. Here are a few important ways you can get involved this May Day:Find an event near you! Get involved and join the fight for a better future for workers. President Trump’s executive order to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of federal workers is blatant union-busting. Fill out this form to call your representative and tell them to overturn this executive order by supporting the Protect America’s Workforce Act! Or dial 844-896-5059. DOGE is gutting the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the agency that conducts job safety research on things like asbestos, lead and silica. This is a gift to corporations that want to slash worker protections to create more profits. Call your member of Congress and demand that they save NIOSH! Fill out this form to receive a call or dial 844-292-9097.Working people won’t allow billionaires to divide us based on where we’re from.This May Day, we’re standing together to send a message loud and clear across the country and the globe: We’re united in our resolve to fight for a better future for all workers.Thank you for getting involved.
Kenneth Quinnell
Thu, 05/01/2025 – 14:44
Worker Wins: A Pivotal Opportunity
Worker Wins: A Pivotal Opportunity
Our latest roundup of worker wins includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life.
RWJBarnabas Clinicians Vote to Join AAUP: On Tuesday, 150 clinicians from RWJBarnabas Health voted to join the American Association of University Professors—Biomedical Health Sciences of New Jersey (AAUP-BHSNJ). RWJBarnabas is a network of independent health care providers in New Jersey, and after a 2018 agreement forged with Rutgers University, it became the largest academic health system in the state. Clinically Focused University Practitioners (CFUPs) are physician faculty members with 10% employment at Rutgers and 90% employment at RWJBarnabas. This role was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, depriving academic physicians of the union-negotiated benefits and protections that their 100% Rutgers-employed colleagues in the exact same departments and clinics enjoyed. They were previously excluded from union representation, a move that the union decried as illegal. CFUPs faced intimidation as management attempted to suppress union support, but ultimately they emerged victorious in their fight for equal benefits and protections. “We do not tolerate union busting or creating new inequities in the workforce,” said Todd Wolfson, national president of the AAUP and local president of the Rutgers AAUP. “The corporatization of academic medicine has worsened physician working conditions, patient care, and the training of medical students and residents. The AAUP and our physician faculty members are going to change that. We are already hearing from other RWJBH physicians about wanting to join our union, and we welcome them with open arms.Public Sector Union Referendum Clears Thresholds for Ballot Vote in Utah: The Utah lieutenant governor confirmed this week that a coalition of unions have gathered enough signatures for a referendum to overturn state legislation restricting collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. Labor unions across the state banded together to fight H.B. 267, which was authored by out-of-state anti-worker think tanks. This bill was passed by the state legislature in February and severely weakens the rights of public sector workers to bargain for fair wages and safe working conditions. Organizers submitted 320,000 signatures from voters calling for a vote to repeal the legislation. Unless opponents to the referendum remove enough signatures to disqualify it, voters will consider the measure either this fall or next.Showbox and Showbox SoDo Stage Crew Join IATSE and Ratify Contract: Workers at historic Seattle music venues, The Showbox and Showbox SoDo, are celebrating the ratification of their first union contract as Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 15 members. This victory, which has been more than two years in the making, is historic because it marks the first nightclub to have a union-represented stage crew in the Seattle area. Technicians and stagehands successfully secured meaningful wins like substantial wage increases, vacation pay, retirement contributions and more. “This moment—it’s exciting, it’s historic, and it’s a pivotal opportunity for the union to build relationships and worker power with a previously un-represented subsector of the live event industry,” said Tiffany Youngblood, Showbox house steward and stagehand. “We organized because we wanted to improve conditions, increase transparency, and introduce industry-standard practices and benefits.”Judge Blocks Trump Executive Order Gutting Federal Unions: A federal judge issued an injunction Friday afternoon that temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ripping away collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Judge Paul L. Friedman, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the directive that aimed to invalidate union contracts covering federal workers at dozens of agencies was “unlawful.” The executive order was issued last month under the guise of protecting national security, but many impacted members don’t perform jobs related to counterintelligence or domestic defense. The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) filed the initial complaint, and this ruling should prevent agencies from implementing the policy for now. “We commend the court for recognizing the Trump administration’s executive order stripping collective bargaining rights for what it was: illegal, retaliatory union-busting,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler in a press statement. “This was the most significant attack on workers’ rights in history, and if Trump was allowed to do it to federal workers, he would be able to do it to every worker in America, in every workplace and every industry. So this ruling to restore federal workers’ collective bargaining rights and reinstate their existing contracts—even if temporarily while the case continues in court—is an important first step.”Road Crew for ‘Chicago: The Musical’ Win Voluntary Recognition: Ten stage and wardrobe professionals, members of the Theatrical Stage Employees’ (IATSE) Associated Crafts and Technicians (ACT) Local, who work on Chicago Razzle Dazzle II LLC’s production of “Chicago: The Musical,” won voluntary recognition of their union. The voluntary recognition is part of a growing trend within North America’s live‑events sector. In recent years, the owners of concert tours, festivals and theatrical productions have recognized the tangible benefits of a unionized workforce. “We are elated to be joining the IATSE after longing for representation and a voice on the job,” the crew members said in a statement. “We are proud to finally be a part of this organization that stands for fair labor practices [and] worker representation and provides community in an ever-growing profession. We hope to be an example of the strength that comes from a united front in the fight for workers’ rights and are excited to return to the ‘Chicago’ tour with a union contract.” “Chicago: The Musical” debuted on Broadway in 1975 and remains one of the longest-running musicals in history, and these IATSE ACT members are part of the revival that first opened in 1996. “It’s an honor to welcome these workers into the IATSE family and provide a path for collective representation,” said IATSE Assistant Director of Stagecraft Stasia Savage. “While the workers on this production are overall quite happy, we standby to provide training, advocacy and protections.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Thu, 05/01/2025 – 11:50
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Wichita Symphony Orchestra Musicians Agree on New Contract
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Wichita Symphony Orchestra Musicians Agree on New Contract
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.
A total of 45 members of the Wichita Musicians’ Association, Local 297 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), voted unanimously to approve a new contract, which will run through June 2028. In total, the contract covers some 80 orchestra musicians.The contract stipulates structured wage increases over three years, improved rehearsal pay policies, musician protections and refined language around artistic evaluations, a change in the hourly pay to a flat service rate for all musicians participating in rehearsals, among other improvements.“We are incredibly pleased with this outcome, which will further enhance our orchestra’s artistic quality and provide important stability for the years ahead,” the orchestra’s executive director, Tim Storhoff, said.
Kenneth Quinnell
Thu, 05/01/2025 – 10:01
100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power
100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power
In the past 100 days, President Trump, Elon Musk and their unaccountable DOGE have fired or targeted for firing at least 121,000 federal workers. They’ve been ripping up union contracts, cutting critical services we rely on and dismantling the fundamental freedom to organize for a better life.We were ready for Project 2025—but this governing agenda is Project 2025 on steroids. Everything from Medicaid and Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Veterans Affairs programs, and cancer research and food inspections have been on the chopping block over the past few months to pay for even bigger tax cuts for billionaires and giant corporations. And in the meantime, costs for working families just keep going up and up.In short: This is the most anti-union, anti-worker barrage of attacks we’ve ever seen come from the White House.But you know what’s giving us hope right now? You. The power and solidarity of our 63 unions, our 15 million union members, and working people all across this country—standing up and speaking out for ourselves, our families, and our communities.The labor movement is leading the fight against this administration’s illegal actions and defending the jobs and services that people depend on. In the past 100 days, we’ve launched our own Department of People Who Work for a Living rapid response program to hold the DOGE accountable—and Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to get workers the legal support they need to fight back.We have tens of thousands of people showing up to rallies, and protests, and town halls—working folks who are ready to do something. We have entire communities coming out to protect their immigrant neighbors. We have brave lawyers taking the fight to this administration and winning in court, so that thousands of Americans can return to their jobs.And we have people continuing to organize together and form unions in places we never have before, like the Deep South. Workers are saying: If the government isn’t going to fight for me, or raise my wages to a livable wage, I’ll stand with my co-workers and do it myself.The labor movement is under attack like never before, but we’ve never been more united—and the people united will never be defeated. Please watch and share: View this post on Instagram A post shared by AFL-CIO (@aflcio)
If you’re looking for things to do right now on this 100 days marker, here are a few other ways you can get involved: Call Congress to restore federal bargaining rights now. Call your member of Congress and tell them to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act and to reverse the Trump administration’s executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies. We are asking every single American who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers to join a union to call their member of Congress right now at 844-896-5059.Find an event near you. Our union, state labor federation and local labor leaders are holding events all across the country every week to educate, organize, and mobilize working people. Keep checking in on our map to find an event near you.Join the Department of People Who Work for a Living, our own pseudo-government agency to expose the billionaire takeover. Share our content on social media and take action to stand up to the DOGE.Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is uniting over a thousand lawyers to ensure working people get the support they deserve. Tell your friends by sending them to workerslegaldefense.org and donate to help support fired federal workers.Tell Congress to stop the cuts to NIOSH. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health researches worker exposures to heat and wildfire smoke, workplace violence, back injuries and other chronic diseases, and state-of-the-art technologies that keep workers safe in mines. Public pressure on Congress has already helped reinstate some NIOSH employees, at least temporarily. Tell Congress to keep workers safe and stop the cuts. Thank you for standing with working people these 100 days and every day. We are grateful to be in this fight with you.
Audrey Edmonds
Wed, 04/30/2025 – 13:13
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Showbox and Showbox SoDo Stage Crew Join IATSE and Ratify Contract
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Showbox and Showbox SoDo Stage Crew Join IATSE and Ratify Contract
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.
Workers at historic Seattle music venues, The Showbox and Showbox SoDo, are celebrating the ratification of their first union contract as Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 15 members.This victory, which has been more than two years in the making, is historic because it marks the first nightclub to have a union-represented stage crew in the Seattle area. Technicians and stagehands successfully secured meaningful wins like substantial wage increases, vacation pay, retirement contributions and more.“This moment—it’s exciting, it’s historic, and it’s a pivotal opportunity for the union to build relationships and worker power with a previously un-represented subsector of the live event industry,” said Tiffany Youngblood, Showbox house steward and stagehand. “We organized because we wanted to improve conditions, increase transparency, and introduce industry-standard practices & benefits.”
Kenneth Quinnell
Wed, 04/30/2025 – 10:50
Safe Jobs Now: What Working People Are Doing This Week
Safe Jobs Now: What Working People Are Doing This Week
Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here’s a look at the broad range of activities we’re engaged in this week.
Actors’ Equity:2025 marks A Chorus Year – a yearlong commemoration honoring the invaluable work of the chorus! What seems to be a common through line between many of the longest running musicals on Broadway? The chorus! pic.twitter.com/xTJHvJbm0H— Actors’ Equity (@ActorsEquity) April 29, 2025AFGE:AFGE members are taking ownership of their union membership in record numbers by switching from payroll dues deduction to E-Dues.Here’s why enrolling in AFGE E-Dues so important ⬇https://t.co/V93R26pge6— AFGE (@AFGENational) April 29, 2025AFSCME:.@unacuhcp member and registered nurse Kadi Gonzalez was on Capitol Hill today to advocate against cuts to Medicaid. Cuts would impact both the care she provides to patients and her son who has disabilities and needs Medicaid to thrive. pic.twitter.com/odK0qXUqbJ— AFSCME (@AFSCME) April 30, 2025Alliance for Retired Americans:Proposed cuts to food assistance will squeeze already financially strapped low-income Americans, including seniors, and retailers. https://t.co/1qVhTvMaF2— Alliance for Retired Americans (@ActiveRetirees) April 28, 2025Amalgamated Transit Union:Our Local 726-Staten Island, NY, calls on the #MTA to open another bus depot to address the congestion for the sake of the community and riders. #ATUStrongerTogether #1u #UnionStrong https://t.co/Ub7JqIoA6u— ATU, Transit Union (@ATUComm) April 30, 2025American Federation of Teachers:Good morning from Washington DC! AFT showed out for Leader @RepJeffries’s address on Trump’s first 100 days in office. We’re ready to stand up for what kids and communities need across the country. pic.twitter.com/Abgt4GVaLO— AFT (@AFTunion) April 30, 2025American Postal Workers Union:May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. We encourage APWU members to join labor allies at events happening nationwide to combat attacks on the working class & public services: https://t.co/YjIfyaqyQA— The American Postal Workers Union – APWU (@APWUnational) April 29, 2025Association of Flight Attendants-CWA:The REAL ID deadline is fast approaching. Make sure you’re ready by 5/7. A passport is REAL ID compliant. Guidelines here: https://t.co/e0U3q1ZkooWhile you may be REAL ID ready, friends & family on your benefits may not be. Remind them of the deadline to ensure smooth travels. pic.twitter.com/K6RYIpxeVo— AFA-CWA (@afa_cwa) April 29, 2025Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers:039: BCTGM Sugar Locals on Milling, Refining and Having a Voice at the Table https://t.co/oLUReY4CnN— BCTGM International (@BCTGM) April 27, 2025Boilermakers:Today is Workers Memorial Day. The AFL-CIO has released its annual “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect” report on workplace mortality. Health and Safety for ALL! https://t.co/o319DGrpZp pic.twitter.com/JJYJzC4mUZ— Boilermakers Union (@boilermakernews) April 28, 2025Bricklayers:This #WorkersMemorialDay, we invite you to join us for a moment of silence as we grieve those we have lost from unsafe working conditions. Fight for our lives. Safe jobs now! https://t.co/uUiVByTaIH #SafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/pCdkR59VjR— Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union (@IUBAC) April 28, 2025Coalition of Black Trade Unionists:Big shoutout to the #CBTU chapters that made #goodtrouble yesterday on Good Friday in solidarity with #federal workers who are being viciously attacked by the to rogue #Trump regime. From #Detroit to #DC to #Hampton, CBTU rose up! @AFGENational @AFSCME @CentralLaborNYC#1u pic.twitter.com/rCEVs3WKxV— CBTU (@CBTU72) April 19, 2025Coalition of Labor Union Women:Every four years, CLUW elects officers. Interested in running? Email info@CLUW.orgPresidentExecutive Vice PresidentTreasurerCorresponding SecretaryRecording Secretary pic.twitter.com/4NNq0jveJn— CLUW National (@CLUWNational) April 19, 2025Communications Workers of America:Every year on April 28, Workers Memorial Day, we take time to remember workers who have died on the job from work-related accidents and illnesses, and we commit to fighting for safe work conditions and protections.— CWA (@CWAUnion) April 28, 2025Department for Professional Employees:Congress needs to hear from YOU as it makes decisions about next year’s funding for the NEA and NEH. Contact your Rep and ask them to sign both the NEA and NEH appropriations request letters that support increased funding circulating in the House. https://t.co/AK3Y4Ro3am pic.twitter.com/ZXNzNKhfFY— Department for Professional Employees (@DPEaflcio) April 29, 2025Electrical Workers:This #NationalApprenticeshipDay find out for yourself what an #IBEW apprenticeship can mean for your future. https://t.co/MM3OecAotc pic.twitter.com/cb4Gs6LPNC— IBEW (@IBEW) April 30, 2025Fire Fighters:🔥How could investigators determine that the New Jersey Pine Barrens #wildfire was arson? Joe Ten Eyck, #IAFF Wildfire Programs Director, explains for @CBSNewYork viewers. https://t.co/fPqkpO27nC— International Association of Fire Fighters (@IAFFofficial) April 30, 2025Heat and Frost Insulators:Read Now 📖Our Spring Journal is available wherever you go — read the full stories on our website & in the app!Spring Insulators Journal: https://t.co/mEiaJSlmwy#InsulatorsUnion #Insulators #InsulatorPride pic.twitter.com/GJbhHRWZGv— Insulators Union 🦎 (@InsulatorsUnion) April 17, 2025International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers:”If one person is denied their right to due process, any of us can be denied that same right.”SMART continues to fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return home and right to due process. Watch coverage of the case + SMART’s efforts to support the family: https://t.co/MNX3bm1wRh— SMART Union (@smartunionworks) April 30, 2025International Labor Communications Association:Have you submitted your union’s 2024 work to the 2025 Labor Media Awards yet? Submit before May 30 to pay a $60 fee per entry (after May 30, the fee goes up to $80 per entry for the remainder of the contest.)Submit now so you can do a happy dance too: https://t.co/9YGKIYB22P pic.twitter.com/MUAISPcE5X— International Labor Communications Association (@ILCAonline) April 29, 2025Labor Council for Latin American Advancement:In 100 days, the Trump Admin. militarized the border, ended safe zones, targeted birthright citizenship, and used the Alien Enemies Act to deport innocents.Stand with immigrants—demand due process!Act now: https://t.co/39bSeTqpNU@ACLU #100Days #ImmigrantsBuildNations pic.twitter.com/I1dUiAAAPz— LCLAA (@LCLAA) April 30, 2025Laborers:On #NationalApprenticeshipDay, we’re saluting every #LIUNA apprentice out there grinding, learning, and earning — no student loans required.Real skills. Real pay. Real benefits. #LIUNABuilds #UnionMoney #BlueCollarMoney #Apprenticeship👉Start building your future today:… pic.twitter.com/v79VbbwlOu— LIUNA (@LIUNA) April 30, 2025Major League Baseball Players Association:And the award for the first Most Valuable Philanthropist of the 2025 season goes to… Zach McKinstry! 👏👏👏 The Players Trust will award a $10,000 grant in McKinstry’s honor to support his work with BBQ Mission, a Phoenix-area nonprofit that feeds unhoused members of the… pic.twitter.com/bh4F3IllQk— MLBPA (@MLBPA) April 29, 2025Major League Soccer Players Association:The entire MLSPA is saddened to hear of the tragic passing of Aaron Boupendza. Our hearts are with all who knew and loved him. pic.twitter.com/ALxyzPNnDn— MLSPA (@MLSPA) April 16, 2025Metal Trades Department:Trump Sued by Labor Unions Over Workforce Reduction Efforts https://t.co/whU0Pa8feD— Metal Trades Dept. (@metaltradesafl) April 29, 2025Mine Workers:The 111th year anniversary of the Ludlow Masacre which commemorates the men, women, and children who died on that sacred ground in 1914. Today we remember their sacrifices in order to ensure safety and better work conditions for coal miners. pic.twitter.com/HKCLwwql1A— United Mine Workers (@MineWorkers) April 20, 2025Musical Artists:Today is Workers Memorial Day: https://t.co/W6c2YdcIZm pic.twitter.com/mkyvFvyxNc— AGMA (@AGMusicalArtist) April 28, 2025National Air Traffic Controllers Association:As we get ready to gather in San Francisco for NATCA’s 20th Biennial Convention, May 9–11, 2025, we’re reflecting on how far we’ve come since our founding Convention in Chicago in 1986: https://t.co/h4jvlQvUSc pic.twitter.com/4R1Bf0DpEd— NATCA (@NATCA) April 29, 2025National Association of Letter Carriers:Thank you for your support and for meeting with our members! 💪 https://t.co/kiLX2Z9F4j— Letter Carriers (@NALC_National) April 30, 2025National Domestic Workers Alliance:One of the most essential jobs in our economy is not paying a living wage.Home care workers in Nevada are now fighting for $20/hour after starting at just $12/hr in 2023.The people who care for us must be able to care for themselves. https://t.co/2UVT5jriv1— Domestic Workers (@domesticworkers) April 29, 2025National Hockey League Players’ Association:As voted on by their fellow players, former recipients Nikita Kucherov and Nathan MacKinnon join first-time finalist Cale Makar as the 2024-25 finalists for the #TedLindsayAward.More: https://t.co/3Ia8FV5Mbr #NHLAwards pic.twitter.com/mJqCJqTpVd— NHLPA (@NHLPA) April 30, 2025National Nurses United:This moment requires collective power — we must come together at the bedsides, in the streets, and in the halls of Congress. “We have to make courage infectious. We need this courage to get to a world we deserve,” said @repdeliaramirez. pic.twitter.com/PWxkAEJGMF— NationalNursesUnited (@NationalNurses) April 30, 2025NFL Players Association:Offseason break? Not for @PatrickMahomes 👏The @Chiefs QB hosted 3,000 kids at a reading rally & challenged them to Read for 15 through his @15andMahomies foundation 📚Stay tuned each week for our offseason #CommunityMVP Fridays, spotlighting players making a difference! 💪 pic.twitter.com/UBDrhD6ufE— NFLPA (@NFLPA) April 25, 2025North America’s Building Trades Unions:Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions pauses to honor every worker who lost their life, was injured, or became ill simply doing their job — including far too many in construction.Full statement: https://t.co/wSHVFrNrB7 pic.twitter.com/9EptlnkN2l— The Building Trades (@NABTU) April 28, 2025Painters and Allied Trades:Our workers at SureBuilt fear for their safety daily– from recent fires to severed fingers from unsafe machinery. This must stop!Take action now and ask SureBuilt to recognize our workers’ union and commit to bargaining in good faith: https://t.co/VF1XXKC1Pd pic.twitter.com/5wPwJXLgVm— IUPAT (@GoIUPAT) March 28, 2025Professional Aviation Safety Specialists:Today is #WorkersMemorialDay. Everyone is entitled to a safe and hazard free workplace. #aviationsafety #publicservice #unionsolidarity https://t.co/2eVvOHtqyP— PASS (@PASSNational) April 28, 2025Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union:As #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth comes to a close, we’re finishing up our spotlights of Arab American labor history that often goes untold! Next up: Yemeni farmworkers organizing with @UFWupdates in 1970s California!Learn more: https://t.co/uKbjx4p95X pic.twitter.com/aUUDWHwzgY— RWDSU (@RWDSU) April 30, 2025Roofers and Waterproofers:Let’s hear what makes this trade special to YOU! Drop your answer below. #UnionStrong#UnionPride#RooferLife#SkilledTrades pic.twitter.com/cE368Nf9UF— Roofers Union (@roofersunion) April 29, 2025SAG-AFTRA:Happy #InternationalDanceDay choreographer & dancer Dacía James Lewis! 🪩 Dacía has choreographed for Netflix’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ & shared the stage with Stevie Wonder, Tracee Ellis Ross & more! She serves on the SAG-AFTRA Nat’l Board and as Vice Chair of the Nat’l Dancers Cmte. pic.twitter.com/sUAxkwdmBb— SAG-AFTRA (@sagaftra) April 30, 2025Service Employees International Union:Tipped workers are getting squeezed from every side:Prices are soaring. Tips are shrinking.And wages? Still stuck in the past.NY must end the subminimum wage. Let’s make full, fair pay for all workers the standard — no exceptions. https://t.co/cxdl54zSwG— SEIU (@SEIU) April 30, 2025Solidarity Center:As part of the Cotton Campaign, we helped end state-sanctioned forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector. Now, without our grant from the DOL, we are at risk of losing that progress. #SaveILAB #Solidarity https://t.co/In913FyG8j— Solidarity Center (@SolidarityCntr) April 27, 2025The NewsGuild-CWA:We’re live and getting set up! https://t.co/pcSEzbenBD https://t.co/TBtAnLg0xI— The NewsGuild-CWA (@newsguild) April 23, 2025Theatrical Stage Employees:🎉 Historic win in Seattle! Stagehands at Showbox Market & Showbox SoDo just ratified their first union contract with IATSE Local 15 — becoming the first nightclub stage crew to unionize in the city’s history!Better wages, benefits, and safety are on the way! ✊ pic.twitter.com/PeIhIcMuf8— IATSE // #IASolidarity (@IATSE) April 24, 2025Transport Workers Union:.@PSAAirlinesInc Flight Dispatchers ratify new agreement that locks in a 15% wage increase! The 2.5 year deal helps TWU members who will relocate from Ohio to Charlotte and makes PSA Flight Dispatchers the second highest paid in the regional airline industry.— TWU (@transportworker) April 29, 2025Transportation Trades Department:In the first 100 days of the new Congress and administration, TTD has been on the move advocating for transportation workers through Congressional hearings, union rallies, meetings with members of Congress, and pro-worker policies. https://t.co/rFiyPjDFwv pic.twitter.com/dE3TFnRcEq— TTD | America’s Transportation Unions (@TTDAFLCIO) April 29, 2025UAW:NEW REPORT: The U.S. has the infrastructure and skilled workforce to build millions more vehicles and create up to 90,000 auto manufacturing jobs just by utilizing unused capacity at existing plants.It’s time for auto companies to invest at home instead of offshoring production… pic.twitter.com/a69TMUBbvn— UAW (@UAW) April 30, 2025Union Veterans Council:On June 6, we rally in D.C. 🇺🇸 Unite for Veterans, Unite for America – The Bonus Army 2025Join us as we fight back against the attacks on vets’ jobs & benefits.✊ Sign up: https://t.co/LU1zIPHTmx#Unite4Vets #BonusArmy2025 #VeteransRise #UnionStrong— Union Veterans Council🪖✊ (@unionveterans) April 23, 2025UNITE HERE:On this Workers Memorial Day, we honor and remember those who have suffered due to unsafe work conditions—including those who lost their lives or health due to COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/09OoAWuOuw— UNITE HERE (@unitehere) April 28, 2025United Food and Commercial Workers:By an overwhelming margin, WholesomeCo workers and @UFCW99 members have ratified their first union contract, becoming the FIRST in Utah’s cannabis industry to do so!Congratulations!Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/UkxLVj6mix pic.twitter.com/tzC3SKtvFd— UFCW (@UFCW) April 29, 2025United Steelworkers:Silica exposure can be deadly. A rule to protect miners was set to take effect—until Trump delayed it and gutted the agency meant to enforce it. USW Local 13214’s Marshal Cummings is worried for 700 members in Green River, WY. Read more: https://t.co/Gk2AQ8xaTo pic.twitter.com/sobSivmtEF— United Steelworkers Union (@steelworkers) April 30, 2025Writers Guild of America East:We work hard because we care about our work – it’s time for management to care about us. Stand with the @NowThisUnion in demanding @NowThisImpact deliver a fair contract. Send a letter ➡️ https://t.co/f0CbQWMUXO pic.twitter.com/lylYMH1iIP— Writers Guild of America East (@WGAEast) April 30, 2025
Kenneth Quinnell
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