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Posted on January 26, 2018 | by IBEWADMIN

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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: SPEEA Works to Bring Back 58 Laid-Off Employees at Boeing

3 July 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: SPEEA Works to Bring Back 58 Laid-Off Employees at Boeing Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace/IFPTE (SPEEA/IFPTE) reached an agreement that requires Boeing to return [read more]

Full Steam Ahead: What Working People Are Doing This Week

2 July 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Full Steam Ahead: What Working People Are Doing This Week Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week. Actors' Equity:Thank you to every one who attended NYC Pride yesterday! pic.twitter.com/cenQWbcVHU— Actors' Equity (@ActorsEquity) [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Rail Workers at Conrail Ratify New Contract

2 July 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Rail Workers at Conrail Ratify New Contract Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Transport Workers Union (TWU) members who work for Conrail have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new five-year collective bargaining agreement.Rail [read more]

Thank You, Postal Workers: In the States Roundup

1 July 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Thank You, Postal Workers: In the States Roundup It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on X. California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO:👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Now let’s pass some smart guardrails California! https://t.co/CebIlLu01X— California Federation of Labor Unions (@CaliforniaLabor) July 1, 2025Colorado AFL-CIO:Safeway/Albertson workers are on strike! Support them by [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AGMA and Voices of Ascension Reach New Three-Year Agreement with Significant Wage Increases

1 July 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AGMA and Voices of Ascension Reach New Three-Year Agreement with Significant Wage Increases Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Voices of Ascension announced the ratification [read more]

Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Ironworkers

30 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Ironworkers This is the next post in our series that will take a deeper look at each of our affiliates. The series will run weekly until we've covered all 63 of our affiliates. Next up are the Ironworkers. This is the next post in our series that will take a deeper look at each of our affiliates. The series will run weekly until we’ve covered [read more]

URGENT: $5 Trillion Gift to Billionaires at Workers’ Expense

30 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

URGENT: $5 Trillion Gift to Billionaires at Workers’ Expense Senators have one final chance to stop these cuts to Medicaid, SNAP food assistance, federal workers’ paychecks and AI safety protections—and keep working families from paying for yet another big tax giveaway to billionaires and big corporations. We urge senators to reject this bill and stand up for working people before it’s too late. While the text of the bill keeps [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Southern California Edison Workers Celebrate Historic Union Election Victory

30 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Southern California Edison Workers Celebrate Historic Union Election Victory Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. More than 1,100 planners, designers and field technicians at Southern California Edison won their election for a union, [read more]

Union Jobs Are on the Line: The Working People Weekly List

27 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Union Jobs Are on the Line: The Working People Weekly List Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. New AFL-CIO Report Shows Medicaid Cuts Will Spike Health Care Costs for Everyone: “The AFL-CIO’s research shows that if it becomes law, the bill would result in higher [read more]

Worker Wins: Giving Families Some Peace of Mind

27 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Worker Wins: Giving Families Some Peace of Mind Our latest roundup of worker wins includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. WGAE Members at Story Syndicate Unanimously Approve First Contract: Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) members and management at Story Syndicate reached a deal on their first collective bargaining agreement that was approved unanimously by the members. The contract establishes compensation minimums [read more]