The president of Indiana AFL-CIO is promising union members will not disrupt the Super Bowl festivities in Indianapolis after efforts to block right-to-work legislation failed.
Nancy Guyott said Thursday that organized labor will take its fight to the ballot box in November rather than Super Bowl celebrations in downtown Indianapolis this week.
[...] Union protesters had threatened work slowdowns and traffic jams as an estimated 150,000 tourists flood the city for the game Sunday. Protesters instead plan to hand out anti-right-to-work pamphlets in the Super Bowl village.Read More
Posted: January 31, 2012
Source: AFL-CIO Now Blog
In December, the Obama administration proposed a new rule to bring the nation’s nearly 2 million homecare workers under the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage, overtime and other provisions.
But opponents who want to continue to deny these rights to homecare workers are mounting a campaign to derail the proposed rule. With the public comment period now open, they are flooding the Department of Labor with negative comments and a barrage of lies, and their congressional friends are backing a bill (H.R. 3066) that attacks the proposed rule.
You can help these hardworking homecare workers by clicking here to tell the Department of Labor to adopt the new FLSA rule for homecare workers and here to send a message to your lawmakers urging them to oppose the bill.
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Rick Hicks
What has happened to the American Dream? Poll after poll shows Americans not just pessimistic that things will get better, but skeptical that things won't get worse. The cost of healthcare has sky-rocketed, while paychecks have shrunk. The price of food, utilities, and other essential needs has risen, while the value of our homes, IRAs, 401ks, and bank accounts have plummeted. Young people don't believe their living standards will meet, let alone exceed, those of their parents.
Even more tragically, the social covenant that made the American Dream such a shining beacon to the rest of the world is being undone by corporate-owned politicians hell-bent on dismantling FDR's 'New Deal.' The New Deal brought hope and strength to a depressed country by establishing a shared principle that no one inside our borders has to go it alone; we go forward as a common people, we strive for greatness as a UNITED states. We became a nation that not only rewarded individual excellence, but protected the right of workers to form unions and collectively bargain.
Republicans bitterly opposed the New Deal as an enemy of business back then and not much has changed; today's corporate pawns still want to destroy the New Deal and gut unions.
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We are the second largest of the 11 Local Unions in Teamsters Joint Council 28. We have five Master Agreements -- involving our members at United Parcel Service, UPS Freight, National Master Carhaul, DHL and those working for companies under the National Master Freight Agreement. Most products bought or sold anywhere in the Seattle area are transported via a truck driven by a Local 174 member.
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