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Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009.
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International President, Transport Workers Union
As international president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen represents 150,000 transit workers, including 41,000 at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, his former employer whose tracks stretch from New York City to Poughkeepsie and Montauk. After a $3.9 billion bailout in March 2020, the MTA is receiving another $6 billion in aid via the American Rescue Plan, sidestepping once again the looming jobs catastrophe caused by the pandem
The head of Western New York’s Labor Federation is retiring, after a decade in the job.
Unions certainly aren’t what they used to be, but the Labor Federation s sprawl across Western New York includes 145,000 members of constituent unions, public and private, from healthcare to grocery workers. A former Teamsters Local 449 official, Richard Lipsitz said the federation still does the traditional labor patterns, including supporting striking workers. Local strikes that we supported. The Catholic Health campaign we supported. The Verizon strike, which was national. The GM strike, which was a national strike. We helped the BTF and ATU achieve labor agreements, after more than a decade for the BTF and eight years for the ATU. We did organizing campaigns, including at Wendt industrial, Spot Coffee organizing campaign, Lipsitz said.
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