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Tentative agreement for striking Nabisco workers
It may soon be ok to once again reach for those Oreos and Fig Newtons. “Very late last night, BCTGM negotiators reached a tentative agreement with Nabisco/Mondelez on a new contract,” said Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) International President Anthony Shelton. The tentative agreement will be presented to the members of the striking locals for their approval or rejection. “I want to thank and commend all of the members of the bargaining committee for their many, many hours of extremely hard work to reach this tentative agreement,” said Shelton. “As always in our Union, the members will have the final say on the contract.”

Washington Center for Equitable Growth Union ratifies first contract
The members of the Equitable Growth Union have ratified a collective bargaining agreement with Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Equitable Growth) management. This agreement is the first union contract for employees of Equitable Growth, who formed a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) in July 2019. With ratification of the contract, Equitable Growth Union members have secured improvements in pay, paid time-off, telework, workplace transparency, and other working conditions. “With the standards established in this contract, Equitable Growth is living its values and setting an example for other nonprofit organizations,” said NPEU President Katie Barrows. Click here for details.

Today's Labor Quote: Equitable Growth Union bargaining team  

 

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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Live from The Battle of Blair Mountain! Last week's show: The Battle of Blair Mountain; Remembering Ed Asner.  

 

September 17

At a New York convention of the National Labor Congress, Susan B. Anthony calls for the formation of a Working Women's Association. As a delegate to the Congress, she persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work. But male delegates deleted the reference to the vote - 1868

One hundred thousand Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. Their average annual wage is $250. They are paid by the ton, defined by
Pennsylvania as 2,400 pounds but which mine operators have increased to as much as 4,000 pounds - 1900

Ninety-eight United Mine Workers of America members and a minister occupy the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Va., beginning a year-long strike. Among other issues: management demands for drastic limitations in health and pension benefits for retired and disabled miners and their dependents and beneficiaries - 1989

 

September 18

The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention,  during a period of serious corruption in the union.  Two years earlier at an IBT convention in Las Vegas a union reform leader who (unsuccessfully) called for direct election of officers and a limit on officers’ salaries had been beaten by thugs - 1978

A 20-month illegal lockout of 2,900 Steelworkers members at Kaiser Aluminum plants in three states ends when an arbitrator orders a new contract. Kaiser was forced to fire scabs and fork over tens of millions of dollars in back pay to union members - 1999

 

September 19

Chinese coal miners forced out of Black Diamond, Wash. - 1885

400,000 to 500,000 unionists converge on Washington D.C. for a Solidarity Day march and rally protesting Republican policies - 1981

- David Prosten. 

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