A Cumberland police officer and union steward told the mayor and City Council on Tuesday evening that 100 percent of the rank and file members of the Cumberland Police Department wish to retain the representation of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1994. City officials announced recently that they have sent a letter of intent to the UFCW stating they no longer wished to work with the union. Read more in the Cumberland Times-News. photo courtesy UFCW 1994 Facebook page Shouting “Down with the outsourcing law, mineworkers unite!” tens of thousands of mineworkers in Peru launched a nationwide strike to protest laws that allow mass layoffs and job outsourcing. Ivan Granados, a mineworker, says employers already are using the mass layoff legislation. “At work, they are starting to fire the workers, saying that the company is losing money. They are … harassing people with threats of firing them. That is why we are here fighting.” Read more at the Solidarity Center. US Labor Against the War (USLAW) recently launched a new free daily headline news service. Subscribers receive one message a day containing links to each of the articles, videos, photos, infographics and other resources posted on the USLAW website during the previous day. “This is a great way to keep up on what's being posted without having to visit the site each day, and never miss an important resource or news report,” says USLAW.
Jose Antonio Vargas, born in the Philippines in 1981 and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker whose work centers on the changing American identity. Read more. - AFL-CIO Now blog |