Today's AFL-CIO Press Clips
JOINING TOGETHER
The Art Newspaper
By Anni Irish
April 5, 2023
Staff at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York City have been on strike since 27 March,
with union members, representatives of their United Auto Workers (UAW) local and local lawmakers joining the picket line at the institution’s Washington Heights campus. The strike comes as members of the museum’s union, which formed as part of UAW Local 2110 in 2021, seek to reach an agreement with museum administrators on their very first contract. The timing is especially significant as the Hispanic Society’s museum—home to a world-class collection of art from Spain, Portugal and their former colonies in the Americas—was due to reopen on 6 April after a six-year closure for extensive renovations.
Cub Foods workers set to go on strike Friday and Saturday
Grocery Dive
By Catherine Douglas Moran
April 5, 2023
United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663, which represents those workers as part of its more than 17,000 members in Minnesota and Iowa, tweeted that 94% voted in favor of the strike. The union will provide further information on Wednesday and will hold its next bargaining session with the retailer next week, according to CBS Minnesota.
Teachers and staff at KIPP Columbus Charter school to consider union vote
NBC4
By Jamie Ostroff
April 5, 2023
Teachers and staff at a Columbus charter school are a big step closer to holding a union vote. The effort to organize at KIPP Columbus has been going on for most of the school year, beginning in November, when more than 70% of the school’s workers signed cards saying they’d like to hold a union vote. On Monday, the NLRB rejected KIPP’s challenge, clearing the way for employees to decide whether they’d like to join the Ohio Federation of Teachers.
Berlin nightclub staff to vote for trade union
Chicago Popular
By Natalia Chi
April 5, 2023
The bar staff at the famous Northalstead nightclub Berlin voted in favor of forming a union on Tuesday night. Nightclub employees, including bartenders, barbacks, security staff, coat check workers and stage managers, voted 16 to 4 to unionize with Unite Here Local 1, according to National Labor Relations Commission election records.
LABOR AND COMMUNITY
Labor Unions Award $7,500 in Scholarships
Decatur Tribune
By Staff
April 5, 2023
Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly is proud to announce distribution of $7,500 to thirteen recipients of the 2023 Michael E. Shampine Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was open to affiliate union members and their immediate family who plan to enroll in higher education, vocational trade schools or apprentice programs. It was named after the passing of our dedicated president, Michael Shampine (Roofers 92), who passed away in 2007.
LABOR AND ECONOMY
The Fed could easily drive Black unemployment much higher than the overall jobless rate
CNN
By Krystal Hur
April 5, 2023
As such, the Fed’s tightening efforts could easily drive the Black unemployment rate much higher than the overall jobless rate, said William Spriggs, an economics professor at Howard University and chief economist to the AFL-CIO. “If the Fed continues to use unemployment as its measure of labor force slack, and thinks they want a 4.5% unemployment rate — to make that happen, the Fed would have to induce net job loss in the labor market,” Spriggs told CNN in an email. “If we go through two months of negative job growth, all bets are off. The Black unemployment rate will easily get to 9% in that scenario.”