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The United Auto Workers said Wednesday it'll spend $40 million through 2026 toward organizing non-union auto and battery workers in a decision underscoring its commitment to expanding its membership and influence. The Detroit-based union's governing International Executive Board voted Tuesday to commit the funds. This is the first time the UAW has provided a dollar amount for its organizing efforts after it announced its campaign in November to double its roughly 146,000 autoworker members at the Detroit Three by unionizing employees at 14 automakers from Volkswagen AG to Tesla Inc. The fundin...
The Detroit News
CHICAGO — As the fight over the future of police discipline in Chicago carries on, attorneys for the largest Chicago police officers’ union have asked a county judge to extend a moratorium on more than a dozen pending disciplinary cases involving CPD officers. The motion to extend the stay on police board hearings was filed Tuesday by attorneys for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the union representing active rank-and-file CPD officers and detectives, as well as retirees. The union is now asking Judge Michael T. Mullen to indefinitely extend his previous order that paused all pending ca...
Chicago Tribune
Staff at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced plans to unionize Wednesday, becoming the latest workforce to launch a union campaign at a major Chicago cultural institution in recent years. In an open letter signed by 32 staff members —about a third of union-eligible workers at the museum — employees said they were seeking wages that kept pace with inflation and Chicago’s cost of living, guarantees that benefits including sick leave and paid time off will not be decreased and will be expanded when possible, protections from layoffs and transparency around compensation. The staff membe...
Chicago Tribune
More than 50 years after being introduced, the first Black “Peanuts” character will get his proper due in a new streaming special on Apple TV+. Premiering Feb. 16, “Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin” will explore the origin story of beloved character Franklin Armstrong, who was first introduced to prime-time viewers in 1973’s “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” While the cartoon’s inclusion of diversity was welcomed in the aftermath of the tumultuous civil rights movement, the show hit a sour note with viewers by segregating its only Black character from the rest of the Peanuts gang — having...
New York Daily News
SAN DIEGO — One year ago Friday, Carl Weathers returned to San Diego State as the featured guest in the President's Lecture Series. Weathers, an Aztecs linebacker during the Don Coryell era and SDSU theater major, discussed his life and long acting career before a packed audience of more than 500 people — including then-Aztecs head coach Brady Hoke and several of his players — at SDSU's Montezuma Hall. Afterwards, Weathers spoke off stage with a group of student journalists. One asked what advice Weathers had for youth who wanted to follow in his footsteps, but might not have the resources to ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Latisha Thompson and Paul Prescod are big fans of labor unions and the benefits and protections they’ve won for workers. So much so that they got engaged Labor Day Weekend a couple years ago and plan to get married this Labor Day Weekend. So when they decided to buy their first home, they looked to Thompson’s union for help. Last year was a big one in the Philadelphia region for labor activity, including the formation of new unions. To sell members on the value of a union card, the organizations not only advocate for higher wages and defend workers on the chopping block, they also offer benefi...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The percentage of workers who were union members hit an all-time low last year nationwide. But in Pennsylvania, where the percentage of union members is higher than the national average, rates are up since 2022, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week. U.S. union membership rate dropped to 1 in 10 workers in 2023 compared to around 2 in 10 workers in 1983 when BLS first started recording this data. In Pennsylvania, the rate of union membership increased in 2023 from 12.7% to 12.9%, placing it in a group of 19 states that had higher rates than the national ave...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
CHICAGO — A large majority of residents and fellows at Northwestern Medicine hospitals and clinics voted in favor of unionizing, making them the biggest union of medical house staff in the Midwest with nearly 1,300 doctors. The National Labor Relations Board’s Chicago office started the ballot count Monday morning and found the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University workers voted 794 to 148 in favor of union representation, Kayla Blado, board spokesperson, said in a statement. The results will be certified by the board in the coming week. The residents, chief residents, fellows and in...
Chicago Tribune
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Henry McMaster vows to fight against labor unions, curb access to illegal guns and improve the efficacy of health care agencies South Carolina. McMaster launched an onslaught against labor unions in his seventh State of the State address Wednesday, calling out an effort by the International Longshoremen’s Association to urge the Port of Charleston to convert traditional state jobs to union labor. “One thing we do not need is more labor unions,” McMaster said. “We have gotten where we are without them, and we do not need them now. We are a right to work state. We have the ...
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers granted President Joe Biden its long-awaited endorsement here Wednesday as he makes the pitch for his reelection that he's delivered for working people. "Elections aren’t about picking your best friend for the job or the candidate who makes you feel good. Elections are about power," UAW President Shawn Fain said during the union's National Community Action Program Conference in Washington, D.C. "This November, we can stand up and elect someone who stands with us and supports our cause, or we can elect someone who will fight us and divide us every step of th...
The Detroit News
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