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The stakes couldn’t be higher for reproductive rights in Arizona. Proposition 139 is a crucial measure that will protect access to abortion, ensuring that women across the state hold the freedom to make personal healthcare decisions with their families and healthcare providers without government interference.
But Prop. 139 is more than just about abortion. It’s about defending our basic human rights. Right now, under Arizona’s abortion ban, even victims of rape aren’t protected. Doctors are forced to delay care for women experiencing miscarriages until their conditions worsen—putting patients at greater risk.
Meanwhile, the Trump Project 2025 agenda poses an even greater threat. Under this plan, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be renamed the "Department of Life," prioritizing a far-right agenda that would allow federally-funded hospitals to deny women medical care, strip reproductive freedoms through executive order, and use the 1873 Comstock Act to effectively outlaw abortion nationwide. It would also cut essential grants to women’s health organizations like Planned Parenthood, making it harder for low-income women to access vital healthcare services.
Arizonans deserve better. We deserve the right to make private, personal healthcare decisions, and we need your help to protect those rights.
In response to these threats, the Arizona AFL-CIO’s Labor 2024 Campaign is proud to sponsor a Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) canvass in support of Proposition 139—Arizona for Abortion Access, tomorrow, October 19th!
Union members are coming together to knock on doors, have important conversations with voters, and fight for reproductive freedoms because we know that women’s rights are workers’ rights.
Special guests and passionate advocates for labor and women’s rights will kick off the canvass with powerful messages about the importance of standing up for reproductive freedom. |
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Fred Yamashita Secretary-Treasurer Executive Director |
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UPCOMING EVENTS & ACTIONS |
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✊ CLUW Canvass: Unions for Prop 139 Thirty participants will be eligible for $20/hour compensation for 8 hours of work. The AZ AFL-CIO is proud to sponsor a CLUW canvass in support of Proposition 139 - Arizona for Abortion Access! We will be knocking on doors to protect women's rights because we believe women's rights are workers' rights. We will have special guest speakers:
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📞 Daily Phonebanks with Arizona AFL-CIO The AZ AFL-CIO is hosting daily phonebank sessions to support our labor-endorsed candidates from now until Election Day! Your voice can make a difference in ensuring pro-worker candidates win their races
When: Daily, now through Election Day Time: Flexible shifts available to fit your schedule Who: Union members, volunteers, and labor allies
Click on either Phoenix or Tucson to sign up to phonebank! |
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🚪 Daily Canvasses with Arizona AFL-CIO The AZ AFL-CIO is hosting daily canvasses to support our labor-endorsed candidates from now until Election Day! Your voice can make a difference in ensuring pro-worker candidates win their races
When: Daily, now through Election Day Time: Flexible shifts available to fit your schedule Who: Union members, volunteers, and labor allies
Click on either Phoenix or Tucson to sign up to phonebank! |
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AZ AFL-CIO Women Wednesday Postcard Writing We’re hosting a Women's Wednesday Phonebanking Event! This is your chance to bring your union sisters, friends, and family members to our solidarity event to call union women throughout Arizona and share our message of solidarity and empowerment.
When: October 23rd, 2024 Time: Multiple Flexible Shifts ⤵️ |
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AARA Thursday Phonebanks Join the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans (AARA) for a weekly phonebank! Every Thursday, from now until Election Day (Nov. 5th), you can join virtually or in person at the IUPAT Hall. You'll be calling to other union households and encouraging them to vote for labor-endorsed candidates |
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The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans Invites You to an Early Voter Event Join the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans (AARA) for an exciting early voter event with the Harris-Walz campaign! Hear from surprise guest speakers on how the Senior vote is critical to winning this election!
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Let's Support Our Florida Communities This is a difficult time for many, and it’s important that we come together as a community to offer support in any way we can. LCLAA National, LCLAA Central Florida Chapter, have joined Giving4Hope to help to collect donations for crucial relief items like canned goods, baby formula, and cleanup tools, as well as funds to assist with recovery from potential damage.
We encourage everyone to lend a helping hand. Your donations can make a significant impact! |
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Union Events and Action We want to uplift what you are doing for our members and our community!
Please fill out all the required information to have your Local's event uploaded to our Arizona AFL-CIO website or featured in our next Labor Dispatch. If you have any questions please reach out to Alina Cordoba, Communications & Operations Director at [email protected]. |
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Release Time Beneficial to Cities and Workers
"The reason union release is beneficial is simple: unions work collaboratively with the city to make sure that workers are represented. Issues such as workplace safety, proper equipment, compensation, benefits, and staffing are addressed. In turn this makes for a better work environment and therefore better services for the public."
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Arizonans Can Act Now and Stop Abortion Bans from Sending Patient Care Backwards
"Voting yes on the Arizona Abortion Access Act restores the protections Arizonans had under Roe v. Wade. We hear from our colleagues in other states that have extreme abortion bans who are rightly concerned for the physical and emotional health of patients, some of whom have had to be airlifted out of state because of serious pregnancy complications, or given birth in restrooms because they were turned away at hospitals, or forced to continue a pregnancy after rape or incest."
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The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe's Workers Press On
"Only four of Trader Joe’s nearly 600 stores have unionized. Beginning with the Hadley, Mass., store in 2022, these four locals have joined an independent union, Trader Joe’s United (TJU), despite facing intense pushback and retaliation from the corporation. Alec Plant is a crew member at Chicago’s Lincoln Avenue location and an active member of TJU. He and his comrades may have won their union fight, but they remain locked in a demanding and potentially years-long battle to become officially certified."
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U.S. Hotel Strikes Grow as Hilton Hotel Workers Walk Out in Seattle
"Hundreds of Hilton hotel workers at Seattle airport hotels walked off the job today as strikes continue to impact the U.S. hotel industry. 4,375 hotel workers are currently on strike at Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels in Boston, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Seattle. The weeklong strikes by 374 workers at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport and Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center will last until the early hours of October 19, while strikes in Boston, Honolulu, and San Francisco will continue until workers have won their contracts."
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Apple Retail Workers in Bethesda, MD., File for Union Election with Communications Workers of America
"With support for labor unions near record highs, momentum for union organizing has been building among Apple retail workers. Instead of recognizing changing attitudes and embracing the opportunity to give workers a meaningful say in their working conditions, Apple executives have worked with anti-union consultants to deploy aggressive, sometimes illegal, tactics to prevent workers from making a free and fair choice about whether or not to join a union. Workers at the CWA-represented Apple store in Oklahoma City and the IAM-represented store in Towson, Md., have overcome Apple’s attempts to intimidate them and secured legally enforceable contracts that provide the security and stability they need to provide the high levels of service Apple customers expect."
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Kentucky Restaurant Chain Agrees to pay $250,000 Over Allegation of Labor Violations
"Investigators found that El Mazatlan had an employee who was 13 years old, which is under the legal working age, and also had 37 employees ages 14 or 15 who worked longer hours or later at night than allowed, according to a news release."
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Five Ways Project 2025 Would Harm Construction Workers
"Donald Trump’s Project 2025 includes a long list of proposals that would lower wages, cut benefits, limit job opportunities, and increase risks of workplace injuries, discrimination, and wage theft for construction workers. Here are just five of the ways Project 2025 hurts construction workers."
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Arizona Proposition 138: What Does the Ballot Measure on Tipped Wages Do?
"The ballot measure is Proposition 138, also known as the Tipped Workers Protection Act. But it's an idea brought by employers, not workers. They say what's protected is the ability to pay less for tipped workers and, in turn, the jobs workers rely on. The measure would also prevent people working under the lower pay scheme from making less than minimum wage plus $2 per hour."
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First Lady Jill Biden Campaigns in Arizona for Vice President Kamala Harris
"First lady Jill Biden speaks to a group of "Educators for Harris/Walz" at Arizona Education Association in Phoenix on Oct. 12, 2024."
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Phoenix District 5 Council Member Betty Guardado Running for Reelection with Strong Union Support
“Guardado’s union involvement began in California and continued in Arizona, when she moved to Maryvale with her family in 2007. She became the director of organizing for UNITE HERE! Local 11, where she negotiated contracts for thousands of hotel and food-service workers throughout Maricopa County."
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Tucson Marchs Against Republicans' Racist Prop 314 Attack on Migrants
"Marchers walked from the Josefina Ahumada Workers’ Center to a rally at Armory Park and from there to El Presidio Park for another Rally with Tucson Mayor Regina Romero. Action sponsors included the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, Arizona’s Jobs with Justice Coalition, Tucson’s Stop the Hate Collective, and other local groups."
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