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Today, the size of the hourly workforce is closer to 1,000, said Scott Slawson, president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The company announced two rounds of delayed layoffs during 2020, one for about 300 employees and a second for 150 employees. “Wabtec is adjusting its operations in Erie, Pa., to align with today’s volume realities,” company spokesman Tim Bader said in a statement in October. "Decisions like this are never easy, but it comes...

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania may soon join the growing number of newly unionized sectors in Pittsburgh. At the end of January, WESA reported that...

Feeney for the people By Bill Knight Anne Feeney’s fiery, flowing red hair somehow contrasted with her silky singing as she played a rousing set of protest songs, folk and bluegrass and other numbers from the back of a truck. And from the heart. She was full of fun and fury. That was in 1995 at a Decatur demonstration following a march of hundreds of Auto Workers, Rubber Workers, Paperworkers and supporters protesting Caterpillar, Bridgestone/Firestone and A.E. Staley. Now, her strong voice i...

Trump Out Now!Donald J. Trump and his co-conspirators orchestrated an attempted coup d’etat in Washington, D.C on January 7th. They acted to overthrow the clear and unchallenged vote of the largest number of people to have voted in U. S. history. We join with the millions of people who, who through their unions, churches, and community organizations are demanding the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office and his arrest.Join us for a rally and march/car caravan on Monday, January 18th,...

Organizing the Unemployed A replicable strategy for organizing the jobless on a mass scale has yet to emerge. The future may depend on finding one. Waiting in line to file for unemployment benefits in Frankfort, Kentucky (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images) At the beginning of November, a million Americans filed new unemployment claims within a single week. Over 20 million were already receiving benefits. While the unemployment rate came down to 6.9 perc...

Former Augie’s employees working a pop-up as part of the new Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative. Photo by Gabe Perez. The National Labor Relations Board has issued a formal complaint against Augie’s Coffee after investigating allegations that the Southern California coffee company fired employees to quell efforts to unionize. Augie’s Coffee, meanwhile, has announced it is ceasing operations. The NLRB complaint follows charges originally filed by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers...

Editorial: Industrial action is on the rise – strikers need our solidarity MOST of the mainstream media in Britain have little interest in reporting industrial disputes, unless they see some anti-strike and anti-union mileage in doing so. They are even less concerned to report and analyse the reasons for the levels of discontent that drive workers to lose pay and even risk their jobs by taking action. In this time of Covid-19 and Brexit, news of workers in struggle is more scarce than ever. Y...

Long and reflects movement in the monmouth poll of democrats that shows former vice president joe biden, the former front runner in at least one poll, his 19th person supported 13% less than he had in the last monmouth survey in june it puts in behind both warren and bernie sanders who earned his first national union endorsement today, the united electrical radio and machine workers of america. in 2016 sanders tried hard to contrast himself with hillary clinton, something warren is to do in 2020...

Movement and a new monopole of democrats such as the former vice president joe biden is now the former front runner in at least one poll, his 19% support is 13% less than he had in the last monmouth survey in june and it puts him behind both warren and bernie sanders who earned his first national union endorsement today, the united electrical radio and machine workers of america. in 2016, sanders tried hard to contrast himself with hillary clinton, something warren is starting to do in 2020. >> ...

Opposition "honestly terrible." machine workers in mexico believe survivors of the recent earthquake remain trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. rescue crews are working nonstop to try and find people and free them. at least 298 people are now confirmed dead. the scene in puerto rico, buses are evacuating thousands of people in the northwestern part of that u.s. territory near a dam that is in imminent danger of failing. the governor there says a crack developed in the dam in the wa...