April 24, 1999 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time. ~Today in Labor History
• The fire ants killed the TPP dragon.
• What unions got wrong about Trump.
• The union revolt no one is talking about.
• Union members that backed Trump may get anti-labor laws in return.
• It was a union contract, not Trump, that kept a Ford plant in the U.S.
• Corporations, courts, right wingers gang up on workers to kill overtime extension.
• Teamsters outraged by less-than-truckload company shuttering its doors unannounced.
• Workplace hate speech, harassment on the increase: What you should know.
General Membership Meeting: May 19, 2024, at 10 a.m. Ramada Plaza Hotel,
1718 Underpass Way,
Hagerstown, Md. Please be present and on time. Bring a coworker!