The President’s call to ‘join a union’ as well as Amazon workers’ fight for unionization in Bessemer, Alabama has re-ignited discussion about labor rights in the South. United Local 100 chief organizer Wade Rathke recently spoke to NPR about the process of starting a campaign to unionize, and why exactly it’s so difficult to win …
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On Sunday, President Joe Biden took to Twitter with a message for the workers in Alabama – and across America – that the decision to form a union is a right of the worker, and fully dependent on their own choice, not their employers. President Biden went on to state: There should be no intimidation, …
Our union members are on the frontlines of the pandemic – and many aren’t getting the PPE they need from their employers. This week, union leaders delivered PPE to nursing home and childcare workers in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Ms. Carolyn Grandy is retiring after thirty five years with the state of Arkansas. She has been a member of Local 100 for over thirty years. We appreciate her loyalty and dedication, and wish her a happy retirement!
The Local 100 Executive Board acting as a Nominating Committee of the whole has completed and recommended a full slate making sure that all areas of the union are represented and all vacancies created by movements out of our jurisdiction are now filled. The slate is as follows: President Henrietta Collins (Human Development Arkansas – …
