UWUA News
Bay City Commission Upholds Mayoral Veto of Water Rates; City Manager Expects Layoffs Share
Layoff notices are expected to go out soon to at least eight water department employees after Bay City Commissioners upheld a mayoral veto of water rate increases. Read More

American Water Rejects Offer in West Virginia Share
“The Company rejected our offer at the table”, said J. Kevin Booth, President of the Utility Workers Union of America, Local 537. “The Company has recently said they need to reduce the work force in West Virginia because they have money problems”, said Booth. Read More

Union Supports Motion For Delay In Merger Between Boston, Conn. Utilities Share
UWUA Local 369 president David Leonardi says his union filed a motion urging the Department of Public Utilities to grant the petition filed for the delay. He says he has heard conflicting comments about jobs that’ll be eliminated and supports a request for additional information. Read More

W.V. American Water Defends Proposed Job and Project Cuts Share
West Virginia American Water said Monday it would allow the state Public Service Commission to monitor the company's water quality and service on a monthly basis, after the utility proceeds with plans to lay off 31 employees. Read More

Labor News
What Can a Union Do For Me? Share
UWUA and the AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees have teamed up to give you up to date information, resources and training opportunities on new trends in technology, training and other relevant information for Professional and Technical members. Read More

The Jobs Crisis Will Not Be Cured with the Same Policies that Created the Crisis Share
"The most grievous of all of America's wounds is its chronic, insidious unemployment," stated Bob Herbert, Distinguished Fellow at D?mos and moderator of today's panel. "America as we've come to know it – a vibrant, prosperous nation with a vast and growing middle class – cannot survive if the current, tragic levels of joblessness and underemployment become the norm." Read More

COPE
Super-PACs and Dark Money: A Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance Share
The nation is gearing up for yet another "most expensive election in history," the quadrennial exercise in which mind-numbing amounts of money pour into the political system. But this year promises more than just record spending—more money will be flowing from more players with more opportunities to hide the source. Read More

JP Morgan Tells Investors Why Middle Class Americans Are Screwed Share
In a country of 330 million people that equals to a little over 1% of the population. Many people do not know this statistic because the corporate media wants to sensationalize news and this statistic will not get the blood boiling. Now there are also 50 million people on Medicaid, this is also welfare, just not the “check” poor people use to buy clothing, gas and pay for their electric bills. Read More

Labor Secretary Solis Says Obama Is Friend To Union Workers Share
While House Republicans attack programs such as Trade Adjustment Assistance, which helps retrain workers left jobless by technological advances and economic shifts, Solis said, "I say we can't afford to turn our backs on men and women who've spent their lives working in factories building things with their minds and their hands." Read More

Messing With Medicare Share
The crucial thing to remember, when we talk about Medicare, is that our goal isn’t, or at least shouldn’t be, defined in terms of some arbitrary number. Our goal should be, instead, to give Americans the health care they need at a price the country can afford. And throwing Americans in their mid-60s off Medicare moves us away from that goal, not toward it. Read More

States of Denial
The Chicago City Payroll May Include a Few Too Many Bosses Share
Budget consultants hired by city-employee unions calculate that the department has more than 200 employees in various supervisory roles and 334 “front line” workers, for a ratio of about 1.6 staff members per manager. Read More

Ohio is Ground Zero: Ohio AFL-CIO Launches Historic Campaign in Monumental Way Share
On Thursday July 21st, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka came to Columbus to join Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga for a series of events to mark the launch of the massive Ohio AFL-CIO effort to repeal SB 5. Read More

Last Chance to Fire Rick Snyder Share
The petition to Recall Rick Snyder is in its final countdown stage, with a little over a week remaining until its August 5th deadline. Signature numbers are not being released due to the numerous petition copies around the state of Michigan, visit FireRickSnyder to find a signing location in your area. Click Here

Veteran's Affairs and Information
Teamsters/Military CDL Licensing Notice - Illinois Share
Attention Illinois Veterans, Illinois Teamsters / Employers Apprenticeship and Training Fund Affiliated with Joint Councils 25 & 65 are providing a Basic CDL Class A Truck Driver Training Program, free for all Veterans with Honorable Discharge. Read More

Back From War, Young Vets Struggle To Find Good Jobs Share
The average national unemployment rate for male veterans aged 18-24 who have served their country since September 2001 is staggering: 28.3 percent were out of work in the second quarter of this year, up from 21.9 percent for all of last year, according to the Department of Labor. Read More

Respiratory Disorder Seen in Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Share
Breathing problems in some soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan may be signs of a respiratory disorder rarely seen in healthy young adults, a study shows. The research suggests that exposure to unknown toxins in the Middle East may be behind unexplained breathing problems in otherwise healthy veterans. Read More