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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.