Today in 1999 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time.~ Today in Labor History
• The Teamster who keeps the auto show trucking. • The Trump tax cut isn’t trickling down to workers. • Here’s why you unionize entire industries. • Teamsters work on Super Bowl parade. • NLRB to reduce it’s workforce. • Behind the headlines in Trump’s war on workers. • Tronc: A corporate media monstrosity. • Millennials are unionizing in record numbers. • Trump has harmed the working-class voters he promised to protect. • The proof is in the jobs report: Minimum wage hikes work. • GOP tax bill already hurting workers at Kimberly Clark. • Must-watch TV: ‘The Gilded Age’ examines another point in history when the wealthy few trampled upon the will of the many. • Use this app to check if the product you’re buying will put profits into the hands of tax-dodging, government-subsidized businesses.
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - May. 5@ 10 a.m. Salisbury - May 19 @10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!