Organizing
Labor in danger of losing female leaders, study finds
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The labor movement is in danger of losing young, motivated female organizers and future leaders unless the movement undertakes a wide range of key changes, a new report shows.
Organizing
Shuler to lead young workers’ roundtable
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How can unions reach young workers and build the labor movement? How can young union members shape their unions? These are some of the questions that will be asked at the Young Workers Roundtable Discussion hosted by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler on Wednesday.
Organizing
Taking advantage of new rules, unions file for elections at Delta Airlines
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A federal court ruling in Washington gave the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the Machinists the “go” signal to organize approximately 50,000 workers combined at the “new Delta,” the largest U.S. airline – and they promptly took advantage of it.
Organizing
United Auto Workers elect new president
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Delegates to the Autoworkers’ constitutional convention elected Bob King, the union’s vice president for Ford and its former organizing director, to succeed the retiring Ron Gettelfinger in the president’s chair.
Organizing
Unions organize in southwest Hennepin County suburbs
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Representatives from a broad range of unions discussed the challenges facing workers in the suburbs at a half-day conference in Bloomington May 25.
Media
Young activists quiz union leaders at national summit
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In a scene that one Postal Worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended, more than 300 young union activists from around the country sharply quizzed top AFL-CIO leaders and started planning their own networking, organizing and communications campaigns.
Organizing
AFL-CIO to hold first-ever young worker summit
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With young workers disproportionally hard-hit in today’s economy, the national AFL-CIO is convening a ‘Young Workers Summit’ June 10-13 in Washington, D.C.
Organizing
Women leaders speak truth to power
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Women union members came together to celebrate their successes – and discuss strategies for building activism – at “New Directions in Leadership: A Discussion with Women Union Officers.”
Organizing
MAPE forms women’s caucus
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Members of MAPE, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, have formed a Women’s Caucus to promote female leadership in their union.
Organizing
Unions forming labor council in Bloomington
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Home to the Mall of America, the I-494 strip and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the city of Bloomington is where 85,000 residents live and where 100,000 employees work. And thousands of those people are union members.