UVM Service & Maintenance Workers Vote To Accept New Union Contract
October 29, 2009
UE NEWS Updates
Annual Wage Gains in New Contract with Norwich Housing Authority
October 26, 2009
UE Local 222, Sub-local 37, ratified a new three-year contract with the Norwich Housing Authority over the summer. Wages will increase by 2.5 percent, 3 percent and 3 percent.
UE Local 255 Makes Wage Gains in Reopener at Hunger Mountain Co-op
October 21, 2009
UE Local 255 members negotiated wage gains, and retained their current healthcare, in the annual wage and healthcare reopener of their contract with the Hunger Mountain Food Co-op.
UE Local 208 Members to Share $3 Million in Back Pay Settlement of Wage Dispute
October 19, 2009
UE Local 208 members who work for Northrop Grumman at the Vermont Service Center in St. Albans and Essex Junction, Vermont learned recently that they will soon receive large back pay checks as part of a settlement reached between the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and their former employers. Most UE members will receive checks of between $7,000 and $10,000.
Workers, Community Put Wells Fargo On Trial
September 24, 2009
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| WELLS FARGO ON TRIAL: Activists and community groups charge Wells-Fargo with "killing the American Dream." |
Accused of "killing the American Dream," Wells-Fargo Bank was put on trial by community, labor and religious organizations at a downtown demon
National Demonstration Called for Bankers Convention in Chicago
September 23, 2009
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A coalition of community groups and labor organizations, including UE, are planning to demonstrate at the annual convention of the American Bankers Association on October 27 in Chicago.
"Workplace Funnies" Exhibits Workers' Issues During G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh
September 22, 2009
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Life for working people is being severely disrupted this month in Pittsburgh – home city of UE’s national office – by the intrusion of the G-20 summit into the city’s downtown.
In Final Session, Convention Delegates Approve 17 Resolutions, Bid Goodbye to Local 751, Sing "Solidarity Forever"
September 17, 2009
Thursday Morning, September 17
Convention Delegates Take Quad City Jobs Fight to Wells Fargo
September 16, 2009
New Haven, CT
Delegates Respond to Call for Political Action, Review Union Finances in Wednesday AM Session
September 16, 2009
New Haven, CT
Wednesday Morning, September 16
President Hovis introduced Bill Fletcher, longtime labor and civil rights activist, leader and author. Fletcher is currently executive editor of the online magazine The Black Commentator, founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, and Director of Field Services & Education for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). He is the former Education Director of the AFL-CIO and former assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO.
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