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July 1, 1956
In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working-condition improvements. ~ Labor Tribune

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Updated: Jul. 01 (18:04)

By-Laws Vote 2025 - Passed!
New Mexico Hospital Workers Union
Vote Yes On The FVR Library Levy Lid Lift!
Southwest Washington Central Labor Council
9,000+ Philadelphia City Employees Are On Strike
Teamsters Local 355
Now Accepting Photo Submissions for the 2026 Union Calendar
Teamsters Local 231
Amended: Sad News - Brother David Gaboriault has passed.
IATSE Local B4
9,000+ Philadelphia City Employees Are On Strike
Teamsters Local 992
 
     

Coronavirus Proves Just How Badly Union Elections Need to Move Online
Posted On: Jul 30, 2020
July 30, 2020 | ORGANIZING | With less than 100 days before election day amidst the deadliest disease outbreak of our lifetime, many election officials across the country are scrambling to expand voting by mail, early voting and other alternatives to showing up on election day so Americans can exercise their right to vote without risking their lives in the process. As the debate over alternatives to in-person voting plays out in our national discourse, another voting right under the law is equally under attack because of COVID-19 but has received little attention: the rights of workers to vote on union representation under the supervision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The National Labor Relations Board has been forbidden from conducting elections online in every congressional appropriations bill since 2012, in no small part because of baseless concerns on the part of anti-union members in the House of Representatives like Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who said that conducting NLRB elections electronically risks “hacking, fraud and coercion.” This claim is absurd… Teamsters Union
 
 
Teamsters Local 992
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