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UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of Public Health; Union Plus Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

The 2021 Union Plus Scholarship application deadline is this Sunday, Jan. 31.

28, Jan, 2021

Report: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’

According to AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, its Rooney Rule proposal is “clearly workable” as evidenced by other big companies that have adopted similar policies.

27, Jan, 2021

Joint Resolution to Overturn Wisconsin’s Mask Mandate Puts Frontline Workers at Risk

Stephanie Bloomingdale, President of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, released the following statement as the Senate debates a joint resolution to end Wisconsin’s public health emergency and overturn the mask mandate issued by Governor Tony Evers:

26, Jan, 2021

What Biden and Congress can do to support unions

In the last Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the US House of Representatives passed the most significant worker empowerment legislation since the Great Depression by creating a much fairer process for forming a union. It is called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act.

26, Jan, 2021

Amazon Union Drive Takes Hold in Unlikely Place

The largest, most viable effort to unionize Amazon in many years began last summer not in a union stronghold like New York or Michigan, but at a Fairfield Inn outside of Birmingham, in the right-to-work state of Alabama.

25, Jan, 2021

“Buy American” Executive Order Good News for Wisconsin Workers

Statement from Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Stephanie Bloomingdale on President Joe Biden’s executive order strengthening “Buy American” provisions:

25, Jan, 2021