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Update: Right To Work Has Been Defeated In New Hampshire
Posted OnJuly 8, 2021 byRight to work is wrong for New Hampshire, plain and simple. It deprives workers of their freedom to join together and form strong unions if they choose to. All that so-called right to work laws do is suppress wages, lower workplace safety and reduce the quality of public services we rely on in our communities. Proponents…Read More…
Members Taking Action – UFCW 2013 June 2021 Newsletter
Posted OnJuly 7, 2021 byMembership victories for UFCW in the spring and early summer of 2021. June 2021 has been a very successful month for union power and victories.
Do & Co Workers Demand Justice
Posted OnMay 27, 2021 byQueens Boro President Donovan Richards, council woman Adrian Adams, representatives from State Senator James Sanders office , Assemblyman Khalel Anderson’s office and New York communities for change leaders came together to support Do & Co workers demanding justice. Workers being recalled after a 7 month recall are losing all seniority rights . Elected officials said…Read More…
Power To The Workers: NY HERO Act Signed Into Law
Posted OnMay 7, 2021 byHistoric victory: #NYHERO Act signed into law! After a year-long fight, essential workers win the tools to empower and protect our communities for this pandemic and whatever comes next. This is a huge win for the health and dignity of workers and our communities. #ProtectNYHeroesRead More…
Remembering Our Members
Posted OnApril 29, 2021 byUfcw members/coalition members calling on the governor to sign the HERO bill. On this workers Memorial Day we read the names and honored the 55 ufcw members who lost their lives to the pandemic.Read More…
Covid Leaves Lasting Impact on Assisted Living Worker
Posted OnApril 22, 2021 byNew York, NY – Evelyn Brown, 43, is a veteran health aide at an assisted living facility in the Bronx and a UFCW Local 2013 member. In her 23-years on the job she has never seen anything quite like the devastation left by the Covid-19 pandemic. “I started to get concerned about the virus in…Read More…
Local 2013 Continues the Fight to Protect Workers After Suffering Tremendous Losses
Posted OnApril 8, 2021 byNew York, NY – The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has hit workers hard, no more so then the members of UFCW Local 2013, part of the larger AFL-CIO which represents 1.3 million people from various trades. Local 2013 members in healthcare and the food, warehouse and supply chain, for instance, could not “shelter in place.” They had…Read More…
UFCW Local 2013 Bronx Healthcare Worker Evelyn Brown in City Limits Article Says “Pass the NY HEROES Act to Protect Workers Like Me”
Posted OnMarch 4, 2021 by‘Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been called heroes but not treated like them. Due to unsafe working conditions at my job, I have tested positive for COVID-19 not once, but twice.’ New Yorkers are rightly outraged about the mounting number of deaths at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities statewide. It’s time for our state government…Read More…
UFCW LOCAL2013 member Gerardo Rocha Speaking about the need for HEROES legislation
Posted OnJanuary 25, 2021 byUFCW LOCAL2013 member Gerardo Rocha, from Milmar food processing in Goshen NY, speaking about the need for HEROES legislation at the ALIGN press conference Jan 21 Click here to watchRead More…
Allies came out to support L and R Distributor workers at the warehouse in Monroe Township on Jan 21, 2021
Posted OnJanuary 25, 2021 byWorkers at L and R Distributors seeking a first contract want an end to piece work and high-priced health care join with Protect NJ Workers, Make the Road NJ and other allies in push for better working conditions and COVID protections for NJ workers. Close to ninety workers at L& R Distributors, who have chosen to…Read More…