Monthly Archive: July 2020

Workers United Upstate New York

2 months ago

The Heart Walk in in June is coming up quickly, and we need your help! Use this link to support our American Heart Association fundraising page. ... See MoreSee Less

American Heart Association Heart Walk

www2.heart.org

The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association's premiere event for raising funds to save lives from USA's #1 and #5 killers - heart disease and stroke.

Workers United Upstate New York

4 months ago

"Who would do this during the COVID?" Laughlin said. "We've gone through COVID. We've gone through delta. We've gone through the omicron. This is worse."

Laughlin was told his health insurance reimbursement is ending March 1.

Laughlin worked for xerox for 35 years. The reimbursement was a benefit he agreed to when he retired eight years ago.

Gary Bonadonna, Workers United Rochester Regional Joint Board: "There's older folks in their 80s and 90s who were promised, they have a very good wrap-around plan with Medicare. That's being eliminated."

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Xerox cutting retirement benefits

www.whec.com

Xerox is eliminating health benefits to thousands of retirees who worked in Rochester.

Workers United Upstate New York

4 months ago

"In terms of reversing decades of union decline, winning at 1000 Starbucks stores would be meaningless — now representing just over 6 percent of private sector workers, U.S. unions cannot simply “organize” themselves out of this deep hole — but in terms of creating momentum and generating a sense of excitement, winning 100 elections would be the biggest thing to happen to the labor movement for decades."

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Will the Starbucks union victories ignite organizing across the country?

thehill.com

2022 might just be the year we see the beginnings of a new American labor movement.