UE Local 255 members negotiated wage gains, and retained their current healthcare, in the annual wage and healthcare reopener of their contract with the Hunger Mountain Food Co-op.
UE Local 208 members who work for Northrop Grumman at the Vermont Service Center in St. Albans and Essex Junction, Vermont learned recently that they will soon receive large back pay checks as part of a settlement reached between the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and their former employers. Most UE members will receive checks of between $7,000 and $10,000.
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| WELLS FARGO ON TRIAL: Activists and community groups charge Wells-Fargo with "killing the American Dream." |
Accused of "killing the American Dream," Wells-Fargo Bank was put on trial by community, labor and religious organizations at a downtown demon
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A coalition of community groups and labor organizations, including UE, are planning to demonstrate at the annual convention of the American Bankers Association on October 27 in Chicago.
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Life for working people is being severely disrupted this month in Pittsburgh – home city of UE’s national office – by the intrusion of the G-20 summit into the city’s downtown.
Thursday Morning, September 17
President Hovis introduced Bill Fletcher, longtime labor and civil rights activist, leader and author. Fletcher is currently executive editor of the online magazine The Black Commentator, founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, and Director of Field Services & Education for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). He is the former Education Director of the AFL-CIO and former assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO.
Pres. Hovis called on Carl Rosen (Western Region) and Marie Lausch (222) to present the proposed amendments to the UE Constitution. Most of these had to do with the union’s finances, per capita and dues structure, and the pay of officers and staff members. All of the amendments approved by the convention must then be referred to the UE locals, where they are subject to membership vote.
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