November 9, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on November 8.) IBT UP IN FALL–Thousands of workers won a voice on the job with the Teamsters this fall, including 1,000 municipal workers in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who joined Local 769 on Oct. 27 and 700 Diamond Walnut workers...
November 4, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on November 3.) WASHINGTON — Election Day exit polling and an independent national survey show that union members turned out in huge numbers to vote on Tuesday, and they voted for Senator John Kerry by 65 percent...
November 2, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on November 1.) CAMPING OUT WITH NFFE/IAM—A majority of the 250 Forest Service workers at the Stanislaus National Forest in Northern California voted to join the National Federation of Federal Employees, an affiliate of the...
October 29, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on October 29.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Workers at Sandmeyer Steel Co. get to leave an hour early on Election Day, with pay, a gift from the company’s owners who hope they will go vote. The Philadelphia...
October 29, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Teamsters
(The following story by H.J. Cummins appeared on the Star Tribune website on October 29.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — With the presidential candidates concentrating on Iraq, two of the nation’s biggest labor groups came to Minnesota to talk jobs, with a...
October 27, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Lisa Leff on October 26.) SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom warned hotel operators that if they don’t end their lockout by Tuesday afternoon, he will join workers on the picket line,...
October 26, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on October 25.) BEEFING UP WITH UFCW—The 125 workers at Minnesota Beef in Buffalo Lake, Minn., won a voice on the job with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 in a rerun election on Sept. 24, while the majority of 100...
October 19, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on October 18.) PROTECTING CHILDREN WITH SEIU—The majority of more than 250 child welfare workers in Western Massachusetts voted last month to join SEIU Local 509. The clinical case and family support workers are employed by the...
October 19, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on October 19.) ATLANTIC CITY — Thousands of striking casino and hotel workers staged a peaceful rally this weekend to protest stalled contract talks with seven city casinos, but their union president and two...
October 13, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on October 12.) SCHOOL’S IN—Some 153 workers in New York have joined AFT since the school year began, including 51 teacher’s aides at North Bellmore Public Schools in Nassau County and 42 security guards at Smithtown Central...
