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What happens when the emergency funding of the Benefit Funds ends in January?
October 3, 2020 1:45 PM
As previously reported, unless the city’s hotel industry recovers by the end of the year and a large number of members are recalled, it is very likely that the Benefit Funds will have to temporarily reduce staffing and close locations in January, reducing services for those workers who remain working – at least until the industry recovers. Read more...
Union-busting in state capitols
In Wisconsin, as well as Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and other states, government workers are fighting hard to protect their unions against attempts by Republican governors and legislatures to crush any viable political opposition to their rule.
Our choice for President
It shouldn't surprise anyone that our Union supports the re-election of Barack Obama. He was elected President in 2008 with massive support from unions.
What happens when the emergency funding of our IWA and Division A health funds ends?
August 24, 2020 12:22 PM
As you know, normally, if you are laid off or leave your job, your healthcare coverage ends unless you buy continuing COBRA coverage. Fortunately, during the Coronavirus crisis, our Union has been able to make the employers to pay the cost of continuing to provide health coverage to the tens of thousands of our members who have been laid off.
While your Union is trying to extend benefits even further, there is little question that the additional funding for employees who are not working is going to end before the industry gets completely back on its feet. We want the workers we represent to be prepared for when that happens. Read more...
Let’s Look at the Issues
This week a Tea Party favorite named Dan Patrick won a Republican primary race in Texas for the position of Lieutenant Governor. In his victory speech he said that Tea Party people love the Second Amendment. He said this right after another madman had killed six innocent people in Santa Barbara, California, in still another episode of senseless gun violence.
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Let’s Look at the Issues
In two weeks we will mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP. It is indeed appropriate that this observance is held at this time each year. After all, February is Black History Month.
Let’s Look at the Issues
James Brady died this week. For the last 30 years the former White House press secretary was the country’s most well known advocate for gun safety legislation. He had every reason to be. That’s because he himself was a victim of gun violence. He was critically injured in 1981 by a crazed gunman, John Hinckley Jr., who was trying to impress a woman he had never met, actress Jodie Foster, by assassinating Brady’s boss, President Ronald Reagan.
Let’s Look at the Issues
While we observe the memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. this week, we think it is equally appropriate to look back at another important figure of the civil rights movement, Franklin McCain, who passed away this week.
