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Gene Lantz, Digital Organizing Committee
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Happy Holidays!

  • Workers at Tower Safety in Phoenix, Ariz., a company that offers cell phone tower climbers an array of trainings and certifications with an emphasis on safety, won voluntary recognition and joined CWA.
  • The U.S. economy grew 2.3% in Q3!  
  • Aramark workers in Savannah, GA voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Union Local 728 last week!  IBT
  • Workers at the MinnPost, members of the Minnesota Newspaper and Communication Guild (TNG-CWA Local 37002), ratified their first collective bargaining agreement!
  • New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board performed an official "card check," affirming that a majority of the 1,547 graduate workers at the University of New Mexico have chosen to be represented by United Graduate Workers/UE Local 1466!
  • Cumberland County Utilities Authority Board of Commissioners in New Jersey overwhelmingly approved an agreement reached with CWA Local 1085!
  • Architects are seeking to form the only union at a prominent architecture firm in the US!
  • Truck drivers for EPES Transport System in Chester, VA have voted to join Teamsters Local 322 in Richmond!
  • The majority of research scientists/engineers at the University of Washington filed a representation petition to be certified as a new bargaining unit affiliated with the UAW! 
  • A pro-union man defeated a near-fascist for President of Chile. A pro-union woman is now President of Honduras! A pro-union man is ahead in the polls for the 2022 presidential election in Brazil!
  • Dallas official unemployment rate dropped down to 3.9%!
  • Frost Bank is raising starting pay to $20/hour!
  • Arlington ISD will give some teachers a $500 bonus and a 4% raise!
  • Federal employees are to receive raises of up to 3.2 percent in January! 
  • Texas AFL-CIO is still raising money for locked out Steelworkers in Beaumont: bit.ly/3sqi5fE. Their Action Network form says over $49K raised! North Texas raised over $15K!
  • After nearly three months on strike, the members of Ironworkers Local 851 in Erie, Pennsylvania, have declared victory!

 

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Civil Rights Activists Celebrate:

  • A jury has convicted a former Minneapolis police officer of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during an April traffic stop after she claimed she mistook her gun for her Taser!
  • “Qualified Immunity” was ruled a "not good enough" defense for 5 officers in the August, 2016, death of Tony Timpa!
  • Faith in Texas was able to provide bail for 9 prisoners in Lew Sterrett County Jail!
  • Marsha Jackson, who started the Shingle Mountain fight, has been nominated for Texan of the Year!
  • CHEERS to Bonnie Mathias’ published LTE on environmental racism in Dallas!
  • Willie Thomas walked out of jail, exonerated after serving 10 years on discredited DNA evidence!
  • District Attorney Creuzot has charged a Dallas policeman with assault against a BLM protester, even though the Grand Jury had already let him off!

Register now for the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Conference!

More Actions Coming Up

Jan 16-17: AFL-CIO MLK Civil Rights Conference on-line ($35-$50) 

Jan 19, 1P: Texas Alliance for Retired Americans convention in Round Rock. Contact Judy Bryant 214-729-0063

Jan 20-21: Texas AFL-CIO political convention in Round Rock