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What's happening now feels different. There's a level of cross-union support across radically different workplaces, along with a knowledge of one another's respective struggles, that I've never seen, or frankly ever thought possible.
By Joe W. Bowers Jr. and Edward Henderson | California Black Media (CBM) - Your roundup of stories you might have missed last week. Four Black Leaders
NEW ORLEANS—With a few reservations about his age, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention delegates agree with CBTU President Terry Melvin that Democratic President Joe Biden will be the nominee again next year, and they agree CBTU should support him.
Andrew Diego had no idea what was going on across the street from Harun Coffee in Leimert Park on Tuesday. The young barista was just doing his job, taking orders for lattes and cold brews. But he was the perfect example of why a group of Black and Latino activists and labor leaders had called a news conference to demand more equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. “We’re asking the local government to step up to the plate, to the original plan that the state of California had rolled out,” said Simboa Wright, a board member with Service Employees International Union Local 721. ...