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UPDATE: Local 204's Fight to Save Haskon Jobs Is Heating Up

December 1, 2010
UE Local 204 members and supporters have been waging a year-long campaign to keep their worplace, the Haskon Aerospace plant, open. Here they're taking their message through the streets of Taunton in a march held last April. Helping carry the banner were Taunton Mayor Charles Crowley, Congressman Barney Frank, and State Senator Marc Pacheco.

Negotiations Integrate Tutors into School Contract, Expanding Their Rights and Benefits

October 21, 2010

In April 2009 35 tutors and job coaches voted to join Sub-local 60 of UE Local 222, which already represented all the educational assistants, custodians, and secretaries in the Farmington school system.  The union recently concluded negotiations to integrate those workers into the union contract, greatly improving their workplace rights and their benefits.

Renzenberger Drivers Break Wage Freeze, Establish Rights in First UE Contract

October 21, 2010

Rail industry van drivers at Renzenberger Incorporated have achieved their first union contract.  Agreement was reached and ratified in late August on a contract covering 160 workers, who in September were chartered as UE Local 1177. The contract breaks a company wage freeze and establishes for the first time basic worker rights and union protections – including a strong grievance procedure, protection from unjust firings and discipline, seniority and paid time off. 

Local 150 Overturns Three DHHS Firings In Fight for Mental Health Workers' Bill of Rights

October 21, 2010

UE Local 150 has won a ruling that three workers at Central State Regional Hospital were unjustly fired. In a case that the union fought through the grievance procedure for nearly two years, a state administrative law judge ruled on September 20 that the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) did not have just cause to fire nurse Patricia Swann and health care technicians John Long Jr. and Fred Gooch. He ordered the workers reinstated and made whole for their losses, including back pay and legal fees.

Bad Jobs in Goods Movement: Warehouse Workers for Justice Exposes Conditions in Will County

August 17, 2010

The vast majority of warehouse workers in Will County, Illinois – a huge hub for the logistics industry near Chicago – are temps who are paid poverty wages and receive no benefits. Those are among the findings in an eight-month study and survey of those workers on their economic status and working conditions conducted by Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ). The findings of that study were released by WWJ on August 16, in a report titled “Bad Jobs in Goods Movement: Warehouse Work in Will County.”

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