Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Profiles: Monica Thammarath AAJC For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various Asian Americans and Pacific Americans who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights. Our next profile is Monica Thammarath. Monica Thammarath was born and raised in San Diego, the daughter of refugees from […]
Teamwork On and Off the Ice: Worker Wins
Teamwork On and Off the Ice: Worker Wins Our latest roundup of worker wins begins with women’s hockey players forming a union and includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. Top Women’s Hockey Players Form Union in Pursuit of Pro League: More than 200 of the top women’s hockey […]
RRB Release – Medicare for Railroad Families
The Federal Medicare program provides hospital and medical insurance protection for railroad retirement annuitants and their families, just as it does for social security beneficiaries. Medicare has the following parts: Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) helps pay for inpatient care in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (following a hospital stay), some home health care services, […]
Congress Turns Up Heat on Boeing for Firing SC IAM Members
More than 70 members of Congress, led by U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), sent a letter demanding answers from Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg about workplace procedures and recent terminations of six IAM union supporters at Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner production facility in North Charleston, S.C.. Read the complete letter here. “As policy […]
IAM, TWU Ask National Mediation Board to Force American Airlines to Bargain
The Transport Workers Union-IAM Association at American Airlines is asking the National Mediation Board (NMB) to step in to stop the carrier’s delay tactics that have stalled contract negotiations. “These negotiations have reached the critical end stage with the largest scope and economic issues yet to be resolved,” reads the letter to the NMB. “The […]