Congressional Staff for a Ceasefire Now is a group of more than 150 Capitol Hill staffers. One organizer told BI they’ve protested on Capitol Hill to amplify their constituents’ voices. They also say the organizing has given staff an excuse to stay during an otherwise difficult time. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation […]
By Nora Eckert VANCE, Alabama (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers failed in its effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, but the loss on Friday was a good result for a first effort in a historically anti-union state, labor professors and analysts said. Employees at the Vance, Alabama, plant voted 56% against joining […]
Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama have voted against joining the United Auto Workers, the largest autoworkers union in the U.S., a blow to an effort to strengthen the presence of organized labor in the South. The Friday vote was seen as a bellwether for the ability of newly resurgent labor groups to successfully […]
A group of more than 50 Marquette University employees have launched a union organizing drive in hopes of gaining federal recognition — allowing them to negotiate over wages, benefits and workplace conditions. The effort announced this week comes shortly after Marquette laid out plans to cut $31 million from its budget over the next seven […]
Over 500 people have RSVP’ed to an event in which diehard roast beef fans will mass descend on an Arby’s in Ontario, Canada after the final remaining location in Toronto disappeared. According to the Toronto-based lifestyle website blogTO, the city used to boast several locations, such as at the the Eaton Centre and Scarborough Town Centre shopping areas, […]
The team of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin‘s fiercest domestic opponent, said it plans to organize a public memorial service in Moscow by Friday. “We are looking for a hall for Alexei’s public farewell,” Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Monday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. […]
President Joe Biden’s campaign plans to recognize a union organizing effort of its growing campaign staff, two sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The move will trigger a collective bargaining effort between the reelection effort’s leadership and qualifying staff over conditions like salary, working hours and overtime pay. The union will represent staff […]
Dec. 26—HINTON — Opportunities to see a living symbol of America while counting its numbers in its native habitat are coming in early 2024 to southern West Virginia. The Three Rivers Avian Center near Hinton is looking for volunteers ready to help with the winter Bald Eagle Survey being conducted Saturday, Jan. 6 and Saturday, […]