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Colectivo Coffee employee and union supporter Patrick Zastrow speaks Monday at a news conference to promote the PRO Act, which would strengthen labor rights for workers. Hes flanked by Bill Franks, left, of the Dane County NAACP, and Stephanie Bloomingdale, president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. (Erik Gunn | Wisconsin Examiner) Patrick Zastrow was among more than 200 Colectivo Coffee workers who voted in March on whether to have a union represent employees at the chain’s 20 coffee shops in Madis...

dskolnick@tribtoday.com Staff photo / David Skolnick U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan stands in front of the Trumbull County Courthouse to take questions from the media Monday about his Senate bid. WARREN — U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan said the focus of his Senate bid will be on helping the working class and the issues that are important to them. “When you look at what’s happening in the Senate, when you look at what’s happened pre-Joe Biden and where we’re moving toward now, I think we’re at a crossroads...

Rasoul campaign workers ratify historic union contract with IBEW Local 666 Published Monday, Apr. 26, 2021, 2:39 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Sam Rasoul lieutenant governor campaign workers, in a historic first, have ratified a union contract. The workers were represented through the negotiation process by the International Brot...

“As the president has said: America was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class,” the White House said in its announcement. “American workers have faced increasing barriers to organizing and bargaining collectively with their employers.” The task force will issue recommendations on how the administration can help workers join labor unions, whose members tend to vote Democratic, and to bargain collectively. It will recommend new policies to achieve the goals, includi...

After two vacancies in one year, nearly a dozen new and former candidates applied for the Norman City Council’s interim Ward 2 seat.  The Ward 2 carousel began after the sudden death of former Ward 2 councilmember David Perry last August. The seat was filled by a city council appointee and former Ward 2 councilmember, Joe Carter, who did not seek permanent election in the February 2021 election.  OU Russian Professor Matt McGarry won the February election with 51.34 percent of the vo...

Don Coram: Budget, greenhouse gas emissions dominate session Durango, Colorado Sat 1% chance of precipitation Saturday, April 24, 2021 5:03 AM Toggle font size The budget is almost finalized. It passed the Colorado Senate with only one “No” vote. Sixteen amendments were passed to Senate Bill 21-205 (the budget bill, also known as “the Long Bill”) presented by the Joint Budget Committee members. The bill was then sent to the House, where JBC members stripped off any Senate ame...

PA Senate Dems Hold Policy Roundtable to Discuss Bright Future of Labor & Clean Energy Harrisburg – April 22, 2021 – At the request of Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa (D- Allegheny), the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a virtual round table discussion on the future of clean energy development and clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania. This hearing was held on Earth Day to honor the history of environmental stewardship this day represents, and to acknowledge the importan...

By Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation 7 Min Read BARCELONA, April 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From installing solar energy in villages in Sierra Leone to making electric buses for American schools, the clean energy revolution the world needs for a safer future can also bring secure jobs with good wages, a U.S.-led summit heard on Friday. Hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, the second day of the international climate summit looked at how to develop clean technologies and industries ...

Biden wants to keep focus of climate plan on union jobs Follow Us Question of the Day     By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Friday, April 23, 2021 President Biden said on Friday that one of his prime climate goals in shifting the U.S. to a clean-energy economy is to create more union jobs. Speaking to world leaders on the second day of a virtual climate summit, Mr. Biden expressed the desire to “keep th...

Stephen Pike Stephen Pike is CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Massachusetts has come a long way since the first Earth Day in 1970. Our air is more breathable, our water more drinkable, our beaches are cleaner and our rivers more fishable. Equally important, our pre-pandemic economy thrived, particularly the clean energy sector. In of 2019, the state’s clean energy industry included nearly 114,000 workers and had grown nearly 90% since 2010. But, as we celebrate this tremendous pr...