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Tag Archives: Collective Bargaining

WGA, AMPTP reach tentative agreement to end lengthy 2023 writers’ strike

Excerpt: NPI congratulates the WGA (WGAW and WGAE) on reaching an agreement in principle with the studios that will hopefully ensure the future of the writing profession in the entertainment industry.
Published at:8:24 PM on Sunday, September 24th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Happy Labor Day 2023!

Excerpt: Labor Day, established in the late nineteenth century, was born out of the union movement. It's a day to recognize the immense contributions and sacrifices of our workers.
Published at:9:30 AM on Monday, September 4th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Holidays, Policy Topics
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Teamsters secure big, historic wins in tentative contract agreement with UPS

Excerpt: “Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits. Teamster labor moves America. The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien in a statement.
Published at:11:29 AM on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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NPI at Netroots Nation 2022: Talking about the American Dream with Abigail Disney

Excerpt: In the ninth and final installment of NPI@NN (2022), NPI's Caya Berndt spoke with activist and filmmaker Abigail Disney about her film "The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales," labor organizing, and improving the lives of the workers at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Published at:8:22 PM on Tuesday, August 30th, 2022
Written by:Caya Berndt
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NPI at Netroots Nation 2022: Talking worker organizing, ALU’s future with Chris Smalls

Excerpt: In this sixth installment of NPI@NN (2022), NPI's Caya Berndt spoke with organizer and Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls about the unifying power of workers joining forces to bargain collectively and the future of the ALU.
Published at:8:22 PM on Saturday, August 27th, 2022
Written by:Caya Berndt
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Laborers fight for safe working conditions while the media chases right wing protesters

Excerpt: While big media has focused on protests organized by covidiots, one hundred and ninety worker actions resulting from refusing to be victims of COVID-19 are largely ignored.
Published at:9:30 AM on Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Written by:Rich Erwin
Categories:Civil Liberties, Economic Security, Healthcare, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Labor for Bernie rallies in Seattle ahead of Washington’s March 10th presidential primary

Excerpt: Speeches from Washington's Pramila Jayapal and union leaders made the case for the Sanders campaign and helped attendees organize.
Published at:8:03 PM on Monday, February 10th, 2020
Written by:Ruairi Vaughan
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Familias Unidas por La Justicia ends Sakuma Farms boycott, unionization vote scheduled

Excerpt: Read­ers, here’s some very encour­ag­ing news from our broth­ers and sis­ters at Famil­ias Unidas por La Jus­ti­cia that we just received min­utes ago: Dear Sup­port­ers: As of today, Saku­ma Broth­ers Farms and Famil­ias Unidas por La Jus­ti­cia have mutu­al­ly agreed to con­duct a secret bal­lot elec­tion with­in the next 8 days. The elec­tion will deter­mine if the […]
Published at:10:12 PM on Sunday, September 4th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics
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Labor movement finally catches a break as Supreme Court deadlocks in Friedrichs case

Excerpt: A right wing attempt to severe­ly weak­en pub­lic sec­tor unions end­ed in fail­ure today when the Supreme Court announced in a one-sen­tence rul­ing that it would not over­turn its 1977 deci­sion allow­ing such unions to charge non-mem­bers agency fees to cov­er the cost of rep­re­sent­ing them in col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing negotiations. Pre­sum­ably, the remain­ing mem­bers of […]
Published at:1:25 PM on Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Litigation, Policy Topics
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Emerald City teachers overwhelmingly ratify new contract with Seattle Public Schools

Excerpt: Teach­ers in Seat­tle have vot­ed over­whelm­ing­ly to approve a new con­tract with Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools, which means class­es will be held as sched­uled tomor­row and in the months beyond, the Seat­tle Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion announced tonight. The agree­ment had three com­po­nents. All were rat­i­fied with large margins. “Today was a great day for uni­ty in Seat­tle […]
Published at:9:34 PM on Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Education, Policy Topics
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#NN15: Ending Inequality For All

Excerpt: This pan­el, led by Charles Cham­ber­lain, is a dis­cus­sion on the issues of inequal­i­ty in the work­place and how pro­gres­sives can tack­le these issues. Pan­elists include: Elba Diaz, Rep. Don­na Edwards, Rep. Kei­th Elli­son, Analil­ia Mejia, Aman­da Monroe The coun­try has turned a crit­i­cal eye toward the his­toric gap between the 1 per­cent and the rest of […]
Published at:5:46 PM on Friday, July 17th, 2015
Written by:Rennie Sawade
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Lake Washington teachers latest to walk out in protest of inadequate education funding

Excerpt: Teach­ers in the Lake Wash­ing­ton School Dis­trict — which serves 26,700 stu­dents in NPI’s home­town of Red­mond along with the neigh­bor­ing cities of Kirk­land and Sam­mamish — have vot­ed to walk off the job on Wednes­day, May 6th in protest of the Leg­is­la­ture’s com­plete­ly inad­e­quate response to the Supreme Court’s McCleary deci­sion, and its refusal […]
Published at:6:08 PM on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Machinists reject Boeing’s unreasonable offer on 777X work by a two-to-one margin

Excerpt: The thir­ty thou­sand plus mem­bers of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Machin­ists and Aero­space Work­ers Dis­trict 751 have over­whelm­ing­ly vot­ed to reject an offer from the Boe­ing Com­pa­ny that would have replaced their exist­ing labor agree­ment with a new long-term con­tract, the union’s lead­er­ship announced ear­li­er tonight. At a press con­fer­ence in Seat­tle, IAMAW 751 Pres­i­dent […]
Published at:10:36 PM on Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Know where to shop for groceries in the event that UFCW members go on strike

Excerpt: As of this morn­ing, we are twelve hours away from a pos­si­ble strike against Fred Mey­er, Safe­way, Albert­son’s, and QFC by our broth­ers and sis­ters in the Unit­ed Food & Com­mer­cial Work­ers, Local 21. The hard­work­ing mem­bers of Local 21 are try­ing to nego­ti­ate a new con­tract with the big chains, but so far, they […]
Published at:7:00 AM on Monday, October 21st, 2013
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics
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