The Kellogg's strike is over. Members of the Baker’s union struck for more than two months to win a new contract that includes NO permanent two-tier wage system, a significant increase in pensions and cost of living raises. The Kellogg’s strikers rejected an earlier offer to win a better contract. Closer to home, after more than nine months of negotiations, members of AFSCME Local 3399 have approved a new agreement with the City of Takoma Park. The local represents about 80 city workers, who also turned down an earlier contract offer to win better wage increases and bonuses. Read more here. When the University of Maryland abruptly canceled winter commencement activities last week “due to a sharp increase in covid cases on campus,” AFSCME Maryland – which represents campus workers across the state – had this pointed response: “This is what happens when you refuse to bargain with the workers demand (for) more protections for themselves, the students and community. Awful.” And, in a follow-up to a story we reported last week, Politics and Prose has apparently hired union-busting law firm Jones Day to fight their own employees, who want to organize a union at the local progressive bookstore.
A diverse group of workers with disabilities in Tunisia, from street cleaners to city employees, share their experience with discrimination and the barriers they face at work and in accessing government services and jobs in a new documentary, "We Are All Different.” The UGTT (Tunisian General Labor Union) and Solidarity Center produced the video. In Maldives, more than 600 fishers waged an offshore protest to demand the government address job safety and health concerns and stop environmentally damaging practices that impact fisheries. Find out more at Solidarity Center. |