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Petition: For Elected Stewards of Metro Ambassadors!
Read more: Petition: For Elected Stewards of Metro Ambassadors!Sign our petition for: Direct elections and recall on demand! Two stewards per shift at Union Station, one each at every other deployment! Term length of three years or less! Having completed our first contracted year as IBT 986 members, many Metro Ambassadors are left wondering about the term status of our shop stewards. There was never a defined or outlined term limit conveyed to us nor can any such information be found in our local’s bylaws.[…]
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Union Workers at Los Angeles Metro Have Licenses Revoked – Who’s Next?
Read more: Union Workers at Los Angeles Metro Have Licenses Revoked – Who’s Next?“The timing could not have been more devastating; the decision hit just as my family had welcomed a new baby and we were on the verge of buying our first home. Overnight, a qualified, safe, and deeply committed transit operator was sidelined by bureaucracy,” an affected former Metro Train Operator told the Committee. Hundreds of union members at the Los Angeles Metro have been stripped of their commercial driver’s licenses. A new rule from the US Department of Transportation no longer permits some immigrant workers who legally work in the US and have passed the Commercial DMV test to receive a […]
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Elliot for E-Board
Read more: Elliot for E-BoardATU 1277 Executive Board Member at Large, Seat 2 Unions are facing headwinds. While gas and housing costs rise, the government spends more and more on war. No contract can protect us from coming budget cuts. We cannot stick our heads in the sand and assume we will be spared. We must build up our defenses now! As a member of the E-Board, I will advocate and vote to: Vote for me for E-Board Member at Large, Seat 2! I seek a part-time position where I will continue working on the floor at my current wage. I pledge to earmark the […]
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Discussion: A Militant Critique of Labor Notes
Read more: Discussion: A Militant Critique of Labor NotesFor a Fighting Labor Movement COFTU is proud to be participating in a panel discussion in Chicago on Sunday, June 14th, titled “A Militant Critique of Labor Notes: For a Fighting Workers Movement.” We urge participants at this year’s Labor Notes conference and other supporters of the working class to attend. Feel free to RSVP or also sign up to watch online. Six different organizations of militant unionists will be talking about their common struggle to transform the U.S. labor movement. For decades in the United States, union leaders tied to the Democratic and Republican parties have traded away our power […]
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Labor’s Turning Point
Read more: Labor’s Turning PointThe 1934 Minneapolis General Strike Film Screening + Discussion Friday, 8 May at 4pm PSTRSVP + Zoom link: bit.ly/laborsturningpoint This Friday, join us to watch and discuss the documentary Labor’s Turning Point, about the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike which kicked off the transformation of the Teamsters into an industrial union and helped lay the foundation for the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This film can help us to answer many important questions for the US labor movement today: Was the January 23 “No Work, No School, No Shopping” action against ICE in Minneapolis a real general strike? How should […]