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In a historic endorsement, the teachers’ union for the San Francisco Unified School District passed a resolution on May 19 in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The United Educators of San Francisco, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the country, is the first American K-12 union of public school teachers to officially support BDS, although other education and trade unions have done so. The resolution was passed rig...

schwindt@grinnell.edu Members of the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) have until May 21 to vote on whether the union should move forward with affiliating with United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). UE is an independent union – a union not associated with a larger organization – that operates on the national level, often referred to in short interchangeably as a national or international. Their operation is a “rank-and-file union” which emphasizes i...

UVM Moves to $15 minimum wage effective immediately An agreement between The University of Vermont and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, Local 267 (“UE”) has been ratified by the UE membership. The union represents over 330 service and maintenance workers at UVM. The three-year contract includes wage increases and a $15 minimum wage or so-called “wage floor.” “The university greatly appreciates the contributions that its employees make, which are inte...

Undergraduate student workers at Kenyon College are continuing a strike this week and putting more pressure on administrators to voluntarily recognize their union.

  Vermont Business Magazine An agreement between The University of Vermont and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, Local 267 (“UE”) has been ratified by the UE membership. The union represents over 330 service and maintenance workers at UVM. The three-year contract includes wage increases and a $15 minimum wage or so-called “wage floor.”   “The university greatly appreciates the contributions that its employees make, which are integral to UVM’s continued ...

Black Worker Centers: Building Workplace Power in the Communities Even in anti-union terrains, the centers have found ways to change public and corporate policies. As organized labor grapples with the consequences of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s landslide defeat at the Amazon mega-warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, one potential direction for the labor movement lies in the types of power- and base-building activities of Black worker centers. That African American workers...

The "Jobs Guarantee" would be a massive government welfare state. Also participating was Duke Economics professor and reparations activist William A. Darity Jr., along with the founder of the DSA EcoSocialist Working Group, Sydney Ghazarian, and Kari Thompson from United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) Darity, whom Duke lists as a "Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, a Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, a Professor of African and A...

Non-professional staff at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly to unionize in a vote-by-mail election that ended Thursday,

UPDATE — 1:55 p.m., Fri., March 12: Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania workers voted to unionize. This comes less than two months after a group of 35 full and part-time staff members with the reproductive health organization filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a unionization vote. Organizing member and PPWP health care assistant Crystal Grabowski says that, while the exact number of pro-union votes have yet to be confirmed, "we won with a ...

Times Past: March 5, 2021 Published: 3/4/2021 1:40:15 PM Modified: 3/4/2021 1:40:12 PM 1996 Steven J. Caisse has been named Athol Daily News Circulation Manager. He comes to the Daily News from the Clinton Daily Item where he managed the circulation department. He started in circulation at the Daily News, working from 1984-1987. ■Curt Rand, director of community service for the Athol-Orange Area Rotary Club, recently presented citations recognizing two local organizations for service to fami...