Category: Front Page
Water. Rest. Shade.: Staying safe while working in the heat
OSHA’s campaign to keep workers safe in the heat OSHA’s Heat Illness Prevention campaign, launched in 2011, educates employers and workers on the dangers of working in the heat. Through training sessions, outreach events, informational sessions, publications, soci [...]
GP Sellers Video: Transportation Safety
Assaults on bus and transit operators occur daily, threatening the safety of working members and the riding public. Every day there is more news of incidents where unruly passengers have spit on, threatened, beaten, stabbed or even shot some of our Brothers and Sisters while [...]
Tell Michigan Republicans You Will Remember In November
Michigan Republicans just voted to take prevailing wages away from all construction workers on publicly funded projects across the state. The legislature could have let the issue go to the ballot, but chose to take it up and approve it on Wednesday. Shortly after the Senate p [...]
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By signing up for text message alerts will be be the first to know about breaking news from across our Union and new job opportunities via periodic updates via sites such the Job Bank. You will also be the first to take advantage of giveaways and services provided to you as a [...]
Majority of Congress Failed to Support Retirees In 2017
The Alliance for Retired Americans recently released its 2017 voting record which scored every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues affecting current and future retirees. The annual report examined 10 key Senate and House votes in 2017, highlighting issues concerning the [...]
Local 20’s Easterline Profiles Union Apprenticeship Options On Local Indiana Show
Local 20’s Darryl Easterline visits a local news show on ABC 21 in Indiana to talk about Building Futures, a free Allen County pre-apprenticeship class to prepare people for careers in the skilled trades. Brother Esterline is President of the Northeast Indiana Building [...]
May 8th #CountMeIn Rally In NYC
In recent years, there’s been plenty of conversation in America about income inequality, with talk of the one percent versus the 99 percent. People have rightfully asked how corporate profits and CEO incomes can rise so high, while working-class and middle-class wages continu [...]
SMART SM Local 66 Member Smashes the Glass Ceiling
The Penny Hoarder profiles Local 66 member Vanessa Carman who has made a career of smashing the glass ceiling at work as a Local 66 sheet metal worker and in her free time as a weight lifter. Ads the article points out, “fifteen years ago, she helped her brother [...]