Posts tagged Marty Walsh

    President Biden says Amazon union organizer Christian Smalls is his ‘kind of trouble’ and ‘let’s not stop’

    May 12, 2022 // The White House visit came as a swell of organizing sweeps across retail stores from Starbucks to REI to Apple. Biden has repeatedly declared that he intends to be "most pro-union President leading the most pro-union administration in American history.

    Biden Labor Secretary Covered for Police Union That Enabled a Convicted Child Rapist

    May 9, 2022 // The Monday conviction of Patrick Rose on 21 counts related to sexual assault of minors puts the spotlight on Walsh, who as Boston's mayor blocked records showing the city's police department knew about Rose's sexual crimes for decades. The records, which were released by Walsh's successor, are damaging to the city's powerful police union, which was led by the now-convicted child rapist during Walsh's tenure as mayor.

    Elon Musk Has New Slogan for Union That May Annoy Joe Biden

    April 2, 2022 // "No, UAW does that," Musk responded. "They want divisiveness & enforcement of 2 class “lords & commoners” system. That sucks. US fought War of Independence to get *rid* of a 2 class system! Managers & workers shd be equal w easy movement either way. Managing sucks btw. Hate doing it so much."

    Biden in Wilmington for labor talks

    March 7, 2022 //

    AFA AFGE AFL-CIO AFT ALPA Amalgamated Transit Union American Federal and Government Employees American Federation of Labor American Federation of Teachers Anthony Shelton Association of Flight Attendants-CWA ATU Augie Tellez BAC Bakery Confectionery and Tobacco Workers BCTGM Biden Bonnie Castillo Bricklayers Captain Joe DePete Chris Shelton Communications Workers of America CWA Delaware Donald Marcus Ed Kelly electrical workers Eric Dean Everett Kelley Executive Director Fred Redmond Fred Rolando Gabrielle Carteris Greg Regan Gwen Mills IAFF IAM IBEW IBT ILWU International Longshoremen Workers Union International Plate Printers Die Stampers and Engravers Union International Union of Operating Engineers Ironworkers. IW IUOE IUPAT James Callahan James Hart James Slevin Jerome Lafragola Jimmy Hoffa Jimmy Williams Jr. Joe Sellers John Costa labor union leaders Liz Shuler Lonnie Stephenson Marine Engineers Beneficial Association Marty Walsh Masters Mates MEBA Metal Trades Union MM&P Mrs. Biden NACTA NALC National Air Traffic Controllers National Association of Letter Carriers National Nurses Union NNU North America’s Building Trades Unions North American Building Trades Unions Office and Professional Employees OPEIU Painters and Allies Trades President President Biden Randi Weingarten Ray Curry Richard Lanigan Richard Santa Robert Martinez Robert Suplee Roland Rexha RWDSU SAG-AFTRA Sara Nelson Seafarers International Union Sean McGarvey Secretary-Treasurer Sheetmetal SIU SMART Stage Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Stuart Appelbaum Teamsters Teresa Romero Tim Driscoll Transpiration Trades Department Transportation Workers Union TTD TWU UAW UE UFW Unite Here United Auto Workers United Farm Workers Utility Workers William “Willie” Adams Wilmington

    Opinion Rep. Virginia Foxx: Tell the union bosses to take a hike

    March 3, 2022 // “The right to live includes the right to work.” On March 18, 1947, North Carolina’s right-to-work law was ratified, and since then, the freedom of workers to decide whether to join, pay dues to, and be represented by a labor union has been protected. It should be kept that way.

    WH Labor Task Force Won’t Boost Most American Workers, Just Unionized Ones

    February 16, 2022 // Labor activists often downplay their goals, suggesting few will be affected. But they would like to see all non-unionized workers, including independent contractors, universally unionized. Recently, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien shared with Boston Magazine, “I’d like to see everything unionized, not just those companies. Look, I think we can all agree that over the years, the independent contractor model has skirted a lot of wage and hour laws, and basically circumvents unionization. I’d love to see every single industry represented by a union.”