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UE Members Lobby Iowa Legislators, Win Passage of Early Retirement Bill

March 10, 2010

Some 40 UE members from Iowa locals and sub-locals participated in the union’s annual political action day in Des Moines on January 28. They lobbied state legislators on six areas of concern to the union, and within the following few days won a victory on one of those issues. Both houses of the legislature approved a bill providing early retirement incentives for state workers, and on February 10, Governor Chet Culver signed it into law.

Settlement Reached To Pay Quad City Workers After Long Plant Closing Fight Against Wells Fargo

February 22, 2010

A settlement of pay and benefit claims has been reached between the members of UE Local 1174, who formerly worked at Quad City Die Casting (QCDC), and the trustee in charge of the company’s assets. UE members will be paid for vacation to which they were entitled in 2009, and the trustee will place money from the sale of the company’s assets into a fund to settle workers’ outstanding medical bills that went unpaid when the company retroactively cancelled health coverage last year.

Lamson & Goodnow Ends Lockout of UE Members After NLRB Says It Will Issue Complaint Against Company

February 15, 2010

Members of Local 274 at Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts are scheduled to return to work on Wednesday, February 17, after being locked out by management since December 4, 2009. Just four days ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) informed the union and the company that it would be issuing a large group of complaints against Lamson & Goodnow.

Warehouse Workers for Justice, Joliet Clergy Call for Boycott of Bissell

February 9, 2010

Warehouse Workers for Justice and clergy members in Joliet, Illinois are organizing a consumer boycott of vacuum cleaner manufacturer Bissell. The boycott movement was prompted by the firing last November of 70 workers at Bissell’ warehouse near Joliet, after the workers filed charges over violations of workers’ rights at the facility, including violations of wage and hour laws, and began union organizing.

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