Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2005/09/page/6/)
Responding to the widespread, record devastation from Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, the AFL-CIO established a relief center in a Communications Workers hall in Jackson, Miss., and planned other efforts as well.
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina weighed heavily on the minds of Fire Fighters and other union members gathered for an election rally Thursday. They said the disaster teaches an important lesson.
The AFL-CIO’s Union Community Fund is providing aid to families in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in distress due to Hurricane Katrina. Union members are being urged to donate to the fund.
On the eve of Labor Day weekend, six Minnesota unions that represent more than 140,000 workers announced the formation of the Minnesota Change to Win Coalition.
A representative of the United Steelworkers is scheduled to be among the speakers at two “Bring Them Home Now” events Friday and Saturday in the Twin Cities.
A growing majority of people say the nation and the economy — both the U.S. economy and their own — are moving in the wrong direction, a new poll for the AFL-CIO shows. And they have little confidence that either GOP President George W. Bush or either party in Congress cares about their needs.
Unions have a little-known tool at their disposal for organizing more workers, Professor Charles Morris, argues in the new book, The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace.
Even as unions debate who to organize, how to organize and how much to spend on organizing, they face a very frightening reality courtesy of the Bush-named majority on the National Labor Relations Board: Decisions that deprive workers of the right to be organized.
Workers need a truthful
voice to combat those claims of the left and right elite that say
we are no damn good.
The media has made much lately of the internal struggles within organized labor. Indeed some pundits have prematurely (and foolishly) pronounced its imminent demise. Be assured, nothing could be further from the truth.