November 26, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Andrea K. Walker appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on November 26.) BALTIMORE — Striking California supermarket workers have brought their picket signs to Washington-area Safeway Inc. stores in an attempt to steer shoppers elsewhere...
November 25, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on November 24.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 1,441 New members reported year-to-date: 131,994 HUSKIES FOR AFSCME–An overwhelming majority of 408 trades and crafts workers at University of Washington campuses...
November 19, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Unionvoice.org distributed the following article on November 18.) Usually we ask for your activism to win the fights we share. But today we’re asking for something different. We’re asking you to give thanks to the 80,000 grocery workers in California,...
November 19, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article by Robert Jablon on November 19.) LOS ANGELES — A musician waiting for the Red Line subway train with a bag full of his homemade CDs rejoiced that he was mobile again. More than a month ago, Dadisi Komolafe...
November 18, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on November 17.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 1,158 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 130,553 UNITING UP NORTH–In early November, 460 manufacturing workers in Quebec, Canada, chose a voice at work with...
November 18, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on November 17.) WASHINGTON — Holiday shoppers have a new way to support good jobs as well as please family and friends, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said today in announcing AFL-CIO support for “Buy Union...
November 18, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on November 18.) LOS ANGELES — Buses and trains could be rumbling across the city at full strength by the end of the week after a tentative deal was reached ending a transit strike that idled the...
November 11, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on November 10.) New members reported in WIP this week: 932 New members reported in WIP year-to-date: 129,395 A VOTE AT THE OPERA–Two dozen teaching artists at the Metropolitan Opera Guild in New York City voted to join...
November 11, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on November 10.) LOS ANGELES — Union representatives and three supermarket chains held their first negotiations in nearly a month in an attempt to break a stalemate that has idled 70,000 grocery clerks in...
November 11, 2003 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Assocaited Press distributed the following article on November 11.) WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney isn’t saying which Democrat he thinks would be the toughest challenger to President Bush next year. “I just want to make sure that we...
