191 Search Results for "Workers' Rights"
Hundreds of Members Attend Union’s Political Information Sessions
Many members have been volunteering their time helping our Union with various activities to keep us strong. These activities have included canvassing, leafleting during political campaigns, phone banking and other tasks, and all of them are important to our Union as a whole.
Republicans block labor lawyer’s nomination to NLRB
Can you imagine if the U.S. Supreme Court had five vacancies and yet was still issuing decisions that affected millions?
Union Wins $500,000 in Back Pay for 44 Members at the New Yorker
An agreement between the Union and the New Yorker Hotel will result in raises and $500,000 in back pay, along with ironclad layoff protections for 44 current employees in building repairs/renovations and property operations. The employees overwhelmingly ratified the deal in a vote held on February 11, 2014.
Water and decency for workers in short supply at the El San Juan
Noticias desde la Gastronomica — July 22, 2009
Hery Adorno, a doorman for almost 20 years at the El San Juan Hotel, wonders each day if it will be his last. "I am afraid I will die of a stroke because management will not allow me to take a sip of water so that I can take my medicine when I feel faint," he admitted to Liz Guerra, a union organizer.
Understanding the Family & Medical Leave Act
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Family & Medical Leave Act, which made the U.S. the last industrialized nation in the world to allow workers to take unpaid time off from their jobs to attend to family matters such as the birth of a child or care of an ill parent.
Wisconsin anti-union bill becomes law but battle far from over
On March 9 and 10, Wisconsin's Republican state senators and representatives passed legislation that stripped almost all of the state's 175,000 public employees of their collective bargaining rights and simultaneously enfeebled the unions that represented them. Governor Scott Walker signed the bill into law the following morning. The bill is nothing less than the use of state power to suppress democratic dissent, and is worthy of the worst third world dictatorship.
HTC Members Get Out the Vote in Georgia
Eighteen HTC members and organizers are volunteering in Georgia to get out the vote for Democratic Senate candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. On January 5th, Georgia will hold a run-off election, which will determine which party holds power in the Senate.
In less than a month, President-Elect Biden will take over the economic recovery of our nation and begin managing the COVID-19 crisis. In order to implement many of his most ambitious plans, Biden will need the Senate’s support. In today’s political climate, this means Biden will need a Democratic majority in the Senate including both Warncok and Ossoff. Read more...
Let’s Look at the Issues
The decline in union density in the U.S. over the last 40 years has clearly resulted in a corresponding national decline in both real wages and the middle class standard of living. This is an established fact, based on both government statistics and private studies, and it was recently confirmed by an independent analysis by the New York Times.
Here are the 2009 Writing Contest winners
Selecting the winners of our Union's annual writing contest is a difficult task, especially because there is no exact measuring device for creativity. This year's winners wrote about a wide range of topics. As in past contests, however, the diverse entries often had the collective element of social awareness.
