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Our fight for right has just begun

May 13, 2011 By International President Mike Futhey I was asked if our Collective Bargaining Defense Fund, the UTU PAC and our recently inaugurated direct-contact-with-members outreach can stop the assault on labor by conservative extremists. In union there is strength, and when members o [...]

Tags assault, collective bargaining defense fund, fund

Arty Martin; Martin, Arty; Assistant President

Unions under attack; we must respond

May 5, 2011 By Assistant President Arty Martin While we go about our daily lives, political extremists are gaining strength and working non-stop to undermine and eliminate much of what we cherish on the job and look forward to in retirement. It’s not just Wisconsin and Ohio where r [...]

Tags anti-union, attack, bargaining, collective bargaining, right-to-work, union busting

We can learn a lot from baseball

April 15, 2011 By UTU Assistant President Arty Martin While watching the Major League Baseball Game of the Week Saturday between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, I was reminded of how important history and heritage are. Prior to the start of the game, a special guest of the Red Sox [...]

Tags baseball, heritage, history, Martin, UTU history

Working families are under attack

April 12, 2011 By Robert KerleyUTU International Vice President America’s soldiers and their families are sacrificing to preserve liberty and ensure justice throughout the world. As labor unionists, we can follow their example of service by remaining resolute in our struggle against i [...]

Tags anti-union, attack, Kerley, middle class, union busting, working families

Contribute to preserve collective bargaining

March 15, 2011 By International President Mike Futhey In state after state, anti-union right-wing extremists are targeting labor unions for destruction. It started with public-employee unions, but that’s not the end game. The end game is destruction of all labor unions in America. Ext [...]

Our strength is in our PAC and numbers

March 11, 2011 By Assistant President Arty Martin The attack on public-employee collective bargaining rights by right-wing extremists is intended to destroy labor unions. Union busting is something expected in the private sector; that’s why we have laws to level the playing field, with most [...]

Tags anti-union, Arty Martin, collective bargaining rights, extremists, union busting, UTU PAC

United we bargain, divided we beg

February 28, 2011 The signs — carried, pasted and nailed about the Wisconsin state capitol building this past weekend — say it all: “United we bargain, divided we beg.” For labor, this may be our finest hour, as working families have gathered peacefully, but strong, con [...]

Tags attack, collective bargaining rights, PAC contributions, union busting, union membership rights

We stand in solidarity with public employees

February 21, 2011 By UTU International President Mike Futhey The right of workers to join a labor union and bargain collectively with employers over wages, benefits and working conditions is the foundation of workplace democracy. Brave and dedicated trade unionists before us risked their lives [...]

Tags AFL-CIO, anti-union, collective bargaining, middle class, National Labor Relations Act, public employees, Railway Labor Act, union busting

There is no ‘me’ in ‘union’

February 11, 2011 By Assistant President Arty Martin As I travel the nation attending local and regional meetings, I am often asked, “What has the union done for me?” Brothers and sisters, there is no “me” in “union.” Your union cannot make agreements for on [...]

Tags Arty Martin, Assistant President, union, unity

2011: So, where are we headed this year?

January 6, 2011 By UTU International President Mike Futhey We continue making progress in negotiations to amend the national rail agreement, affecting some 40,000 UTU members employed by BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and many smaller railroads represented b [...]