June 10, 2021 Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to 28 months in prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds and to defraud the United States announced Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.
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A quiet campaign by UAW organizers at the University of California ended Monday with more than 10,000 signed cards officially submitted to authorities that would create the Student Researchers United-UAW, representing more than 17,000 higher education workers.
These union activists are not required to hold a formal election and can, instead, submit the signed 10,441 cards to California s Public Employee Relations Board in Oakland. Researchers marched down to the office at 1330 Broadway carrying a banner just after 2 p.m. Signatures will have to be certified as union organizers await instructions on next steps.
The action means the UAW would represent all 10 UC campuses and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Organizers made a point of noting that every site has been actively involved in collecting union cards. These researchers, who get paid by the university, have finished their undergraduate studies and now work toward earning a Ph.D. degree. Their wor
Workers at the Whitney Museum move to form a union
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photograph by Sean Sime.
by Colin Moynihan
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Employees of the Whitney Museum of American Art are the latest group of museum workers in the city to take steps toward forming a union.
They are also the most recent example of museum employees who have chosen to organize under the wing of a union not everyone would associate with the art world: the United Automobile Workers.
A petition asking for a union vote was filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board by the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110 UAW.
by Jenna Bloxom (Advanced Biofuels USA) The May 5
th, 2021 Congressional hearing of the CLEAN Future Act: Driving Decarbonization of the Transportation Sector was a veritable marathon of legislative discourse just shy of four hours long as both parties debated what they deemed, in their own succinct if not melodramatic words, as the way to “winning the future”. This particular test of deliberative endurance was certainly not the first nor the final hearing of the CLEAN Future Act, so the members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce focused on reiterating their broader arguments regarding the bill’s overall goals and impacts rather than any nuanced specifics found within its 981 pages.