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
• Nevada Teamster wins statehouse seat nomination • Workers’ wages fall after passage of GOP tax cuts • Labor urges Trump to focus less on Canada, more on China • Teamsters denounce Trump, fully support Canada • Strengthening unions could blunt inequality, wage stagnation • SCOTUS case that could kneecap public sector unions, explained • IBT statement on solidarity with Teamster Canada on recent political rift
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!
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