Today's AFL-CIO Press Clips

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Biden to nominate Julie Su as next US labor secretary

AP

By Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller

Feb. 28, 2023

President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. “There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “It’s her life’s work.”

POLITICS

Biden nominating Julie Su as next U.S. labor secretary

CNBC

By AP

Feb. 28, 2023

“There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “It’s her life’s work.”

JOINING TOGETHER

Rutgers’ faculty begin strike authorization vote as negotiations stagnate

The Philadelphia Inquirer

By Susan Snyder

Feb. 28, 2023

After nine months of negotiations failed to produce an agreement, the two unions representing Rutgers full-time faculty, graduate students, and adjuncts on Tuesday launched a strike authorization vote slated to happen over the next 10 days. “So this would be everybody who teaches at Rutgers,” said Rebecca Givan, president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors. “Every classroom empty.”

IN THE STATES
 

New Jersey State AFL-CIO Stands with Rutgers Unions in Fight for Fair Contract

Insider NJ

Feb. 28, 2023

Today, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO stood with over 200 union members and students at the Rutgers-Newark campus to demand that the Rutgers Administration and Board of Governors negotiate with Rutgers faculty and staff unions for a fair contract. Our sisters and brothers have worked for eight months since their last contract expired. After refusing to negotiate for months, Rutgers has recently returned to the bargaining table with offers that fail to address major labor issues including: affordable healthcare, raises that reflect the drastic increase in cost-of-living, job security of part-time lecturers and living wages for graduate student workers. Due to the on-going dispute, Rutgers has earned the unfortunate designation of having the worst labor relations of any higher education institution in New Jersey.

LABOR AND COMMUNITY

Local firefighters, nonprofit help every student at Morgan Elementary get a new winter coat

WPSD

By Charity Blanton

Feb. 28, 2023

Local firefighters are doing their part to keep young students warm this winter with their 9th annual Operation Warm event. Operation Warm is a nonprofit that partners with individuals, organizations, and corporations across the United States to provide new coats and shoes for children in need. In their 24 years of service, Operation Warm says they have served 5 million children and over 2,000 communities — one of them being Paducah.  According to a Facebook post from Paducah Firefighters IAFF Local 168, each and every student at Morgan Elementary School — a total of 379 — received a coat on Monday during the Operation Warm event.