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  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
December 6, 2019 at 5:39 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. The Frightening Rise In Low-Quality, Low-Paying Jobs: Is This Really A Strong Job Market? There have been some new reports that back up the claims of people who say that the job market is not…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
November 22, 2019 at 6:09 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. Steelworkers: Little Progress in ASARCO Strike, Nearly Six Weeks In. Please Make a Donation to Support Workers on the Picket Line. The Asarco strike is in its sixth week and the United Steelw…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
November 15, 2019 at 5:38 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. DACA Supreme Court Hearing Sparks Austin Rally Donning neon orange T-shirts and cardboard butterfly wings on their backs representing migration, about 100 Austin area students opted out of sch…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
November 1, 2019 at 4:39 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. Donate: Help Buy Supplies for Striking Steelworkers at ASARCO - Amarillo, TX For almost 3 weeks, ASARCO workers have been holding signs and taking shifts picketing around the clock. According…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
October 18, 2019 at 4:50 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. Texas AFL-CIO Welcomes Tentative Agreement Between United Auto Workers, GM This week's announcement of a tentative agreement in contract talks between the United Auto Workers and General Mot…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
October 11, 2019 at 3:29 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas Labor Movement. Supreme Court is divided over gay, transgender job bias in civil rights case to be decided during 2020 election The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Tuesday on a major civil rights ques…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
September 27, 2019 at 9:02 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Under Pressure From Broad Support of UAW, GM Restores Health Coverage for Its Working Families The good news is that General Motors has restored health care funding for striking United Auto W…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
September 20, 2019 at 5:50 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. National GM Strike Continues Into The Weekend. Scabby the Rat Heads to the Picket Front Lines in Arlington, TX. A top UAW official told striking General Motors workers Thursday afternoon that…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
September 6, 2019 at 3:35 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Levy, Garibay Cite First Labor Right: 'Get to Go Home at the End of a Shift' The top officers of the Texas AFL-CIO traveled to the locales of recent mass shootings in Texas on a solemn Labor …
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
August 30, 2019 at 5:53 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Labor Day Weekend is Here. Let's Celebrate Together. Labor Day Weekend—a holiday for celebration and solidarity. All across the state, cities, unions and locals are hosting events to honor w…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
August 23, 2019 at 4:34 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Abbott 'Swaps One Scandal-Scarred Secretary of State for Another' As Texas Workforce Commission chair, Ruth Hughs secretly coordinated with tech lobbyists to rewrite the rules of the gig eco…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
August 16, 2019 at 7:43 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. One Job Should Be Enough The large amazing protests by UNITE HERE catering workers at American Airlines headquarters and the DFW Airport displayed organized labor in Texas at its best - stan…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
August 9, 2019 at 5:02 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Biggest Labor Action of the Decade in North Texas is Set for Tuesday, August 13th. We Will Be There! Join Us. What: Stand in solidarity with UNITE HERE Local 23 Airline Catering Workers Whe…
  Texas AFL-CIO · [email protected]
August 2, 2019 at 8:16 PM

The Barbed Wire

Weekly Labor News john, Here is your weekly news from the Texas labor movement. Levy, Garibay Re-Elected to Top Texas AFL-CIO Offices Signaling a "bigger, broader, bolder" agenda for Texas working families, Texas AFL-CIO delegates re-elected Rick Levy as President and Mo…