Posts tagged Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Plan
Unionized Berkeley REI Workers Get Pay Raises After Labor Board Alleged They Were Shut Out
August 7, 2025 // Following a years-long organizing effort, some workers at a Berkeley REI store are set to get retroactive pay raises and bonuses as part of a labor deal with two unions representing workers at 11 stores across the country. The agreement reached last week between REI Co-op, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union — which represents the Berkeley workers — and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union establishes a national bargaining structure for unionized workers that provides compensation some workers previously did not receive between 2022 and 2024.
PBGC Just Announced Nearly $2.3 Billion Will Go To 4 Underfunded Union Pensions
June 22, 2024 // On Thursday, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced that it had approved the bailouts of four underfunded union pension plans totaling nearly $2.4 billion. Of the nearly $2.4 billion, the largest payments of taxpayer dollars will go to a grocery union pension and a printers’ union (which is now part of the Teamsters).