800 members of the Oberlin College community staged a protest in opposition to a plan which would eliminate 108 UAW custodial and dining jobs. The protest, consisting of roughly over 800 people, took place during an Oberlin College faculty meeting. Read more on Morning Journal >>>
The Workers Defense League in New York recently honored UAW Local 2110 Maida Rosenstein during the group’s 81st anniversary dinner May 16. Rosenstein has always given priority to organizing new workers. She has been involved in graduate worker campaigns at New York University and Columbia, at a host of nonprofits and museums, and in higher education. For more than 30 years, she has strongly promoted membership-led, grassroots union activity, in contract negotiations campaigns, new organizing and political action. As a result, Local 2110 has developed a broad group of leaders, and a degree of mobilization and activity that stands out ...
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