Union Member Disaster Relief program featured in today's press clips
EDITOR'S NOTE: "True Colors," a story about the Union Member Disaster Relief program in LA Progressive made today's press clips under "LABOR AND COMMUNITY."
LABOR AND ECONOMY
Uber, Lyft to Bear Brunt of Record-High Gas Prices, Labor Expert Predicts
Newsweek
By Katherine Fung
March 10, 2022
"The federal minimum wage has been frozen for years. It was already scandalously low when the COVID driven price increases hit, and of course it has not responded at all to these increases in the cost of living," Damon Silvers, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations's senior strategic advisor and special counsel to the President, told Newsweek.
TRANSPORTATION
Delta Pilots Plan to Picket at Airport over Staffing Issues
Aviation Pros
By Kelly Yamanouchi
March 10, 2022
The pilots union at Delta Air Lines says the carrier doesn't have enough buffer in its staffing to manage well through storms or other disruptions, causing pilots to work fatiguing schedules and more overtime. The airline is counting on pilots to work extra flights on their days off in order to maintain its flight schedules, especially when storms or other disruptions require rescheduling. Members of the Air Line Pilots Association plan to picket at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport outside the Delta check-in lobby on Thursday to raise public awareness of the staffing issue. "We're just concerned that, if the company continues this way, the pilots are just not going to continue with the things the way they are," said Jason Ambrosi, head of the Air Line Pilots Association at Delta. "At some point, (pilots) may not pick up that overtime anymore and extra flying."
JOINING TOGETHER
Southern California grocery workers schedule strike-authorization votes
Press Enterprise
By Kevin Smith
March 10, 2022
After weeks of fruitless negotiations, some 43,000 Southern California grocery workers employed by Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions have scheduled strike-authorization votes that could signal a potential walkout at the supermarket chains. The employees, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, saw their contract expire Sunday March 6. They have scheduled strike votes for the week of March 21. They haven’t indicated when a strike might occur. UFCW represents about 60,000 supermarket workers employed by Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons, Pavilions, Stater Bros. and Gelson’s, ranging from Central California to the Mexican border.
AFT President Randi Weingarten joins striking Proviso teachers on the picket line
Yahoo! News
By Karen Ann Cullotta
March 9, 2022
Classes were canceled for a third day at Proviso High School District 209, where striking teachers were bolstered by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who joined forces with educators on the picket line Wednesday. “You can tell he’s not listening, because you’re out on strike,” said Weingarten, referring to District 209 Superintendent James Henderson. Weingarten addressed the crowd while standing on a picnic table in a forest preserve across the road from Proviso Math and Science Academy in Forest Park, which houses the district’s headquarters.
IN THE STATES
Young blasted as anti-worker for leading opposition to project labor agreements
KPVI
By Dan Carden
March 10, 2022
Brett Voorhies, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization of Hoosier labor unions, said Young's opposition to PLAs proves the first-term senator "is not on the side of working Hoosiers." "Senator Young would rather side with low-road contractors who seek to win construction project bids by lowering their labor costs and assembling a low-wage, low-skill, easily exploitable workforce," Voorhies said. "The fact is, project labor agreements help guarantee that our schools, roads and bridges in Indiana are built by a safe, productive and highly trained Hoosier workforce.
LABOR AND COMMUNITY
LA Progressive
By Berry Craig
March 10, 2022
Think “solidarity,” that old union byword, is just an empty phrase these days? Think again. Better yet, talk to Tim Morris, executive director of the Greater Louisville Central Labor Council, and to Liles Taylor, Kentucky State AFL-CIO political coordinator. They’ll clue you in about scores of union members from coast to coast who have donated about $300,000 to help their Kentucky union brothers and sisters who were among the victims of deadly tornadoes that ravaged western and south central Kentucky on the night of Dec. 10-11.