Salt Lake City municipal workers and community rally for strong contract

Salt Lake City, UT- On May 5, over 100 city workers and supporters demanded a strong contract in front of the Salt Lake City and County Building as union negotiations continue. Organized under AFSCME 1004, Salt Lake’s city workers demanded no cuts to worker compensation and condemned the city’s proposal for its attacks on union rights.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/salt-lake-city-municipal-workers-and-community-rally-for-strong-contract

Grand Rapids, MI rallies on International Workers’ Day

Grand Rapids, MI – The Grand Rapids May Day Committee organized a rally commemorating International Workers Day, Saturday, May 2, at Fountain Street Church.

Co-hosted by the May Day Committee chair, Tom Burke of IATSE 26, along with Ivan Diaz, candidate for Michigan State Senate District 29, the event started with songs of solidarity by Carsten Forester of AFM Local 56. After the music, local labor leaders and community activists spoke on meeting the attacks from the Trump administration. Many focused on standing in solidarity with immigrants and fellow workers.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/grand-rapids-mi-rallies-on-international-workers-day

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #AFSCME #PATCO #strike #atlanta #CivilRights #sanitation #blackpower #wages #poverty #reagan

Minneapolis: Trade unions march for immigrant rights

Minneapolis, MN – Over 1000 union members, immigrant rights activists and supporters marched through Minneapolis’ Whittier neighborhood on Monday, February 16, to demand an end to ICE’s occupation of the city and for the defense of immigrant rights.

Marchers held dozens of banners with slogans like “ICE our now,” “Legalization for all,” and “Killer ICE off our streets.” The march began at Stewart Park, crossed a highway where the supportive honks of passing traffic temporarily drowned out the marchers’ chants, and ended at the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street, where Alex Pretti was murdered.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/minneapolis-trade-unions-march-for-immigrant-rights

#AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) Local 3299 - 40,000 UC service and patient care technical workers - leads the strike, joined in #solidarity by 25,000 UC #nurses of the California Nurses Association.
https://portside.org/2025-11-12/thousands-uc-employees-plan-strike-protest-wage-stagnation

#healthworkers #labourmovement #organize #strikes #unions

VICTORY!!! My coworkers and I in UPTE took on the University of California to fight for our patients, students, & research. Early this morning, our bargaining team announced they had reached a Tentative Agreement with the UC. Details unknown at this time, but it's no coincidence that this was announced shortly before UPTE, AFSCME, & CNA unions went out on the largest strike in UC's history.

https://upte.org/

#UnionStrong #OrganizedLabor #UC #uptecwa9119 #AFSCME #CNA

Dozens of #unions weigh in on #GovernmentShutdown: administration attacks those who keep country running; executive engaging in blatant #UnionBusting; CEOs and #billionaires want to keep workers divided

https://aflcio.org/2025/10/1/put-working-people-first-unions-respond-government-shutdown

#union #shutdown #AFLCIO #Trump #ACA #SocialSecurity #veterans #Project2025 #DOGE #Medicaid #AFGE #AFSCME #AFT #IAFF #IFPTE #NATCA #NFFEIAM #NNU #OPEIU #PASS #UWUA #DPE #TTD #capitalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar

Resolution Against Collaboration with Federal actions that violate DC Law and Values
#AFSCME Local 1808 #uspol

https://sites.google.com/view/afscme-local-1808/resolutions?authuser=0#h.ng6argtwqpv7