Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/unions/page/27/)
On Tuesday, the ranks of the striking workers—represented by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and SEIU Local 73—swelled a little further as nearly 40 teachers walked off the job at Passages Charter School on the city’s north side
Two St. Paul natives who traded in their boxing gloves for work gloves were inducted into the Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame this month.
“President Gabel has been lauded for breaking the glass ceiling, becoming the first female president in the 150-year history of the U,” said AFSCME 3800 vice-president Steph Taylor. “Clerical, technical and healthcare workers are predominantly women. We are always told to wait, well we are done waiting.”
Workers for Eulen America, a subcontractor for American Airlines, are on strike, saying the company is intimidating workers who are trying to form a union.
Teachers said they’re disappointed that the administration of Mayor Lori Lightfoot has not yet followed through on campaign promises to increase school staffing, shrink class sizes, create an elected school board and otherwise bolster public education.
No details have been made available, but rank-and-file workers on the picket lines have made it clear that the major priority for them is abolishing the tiers that have fractured the auto workforce.
In late May 2018, nine women sued Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the world. Several of the lawsuits charged that plant supervisors had engaged in “the most extreme acts of sexual harassment.”
Ahead of a potential massive strike this week, Chicago teachers are pushing the limits of social justice unionism.
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union, together with Public Citizen and UFCW Locals 663, 440 and 2 filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis this week over controversial U.S. Department of Agriculture rule changes for regulating pork processing plants.
Over 2,800 tradeswomen and construction industry leaders convened this weekend in Minneapolis to advance career paths and strengthen union tradeswomen’s future.