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Washington DC Hotel Workers Rally for Economic Justice!
In DC, more than 100 Local 25 hotel workers and community supporters marched and rallied on Wednesday, Dec. 15th to mark the third month of working without a contract. Marchers, including supporters from Jobs with Justice, the ANSWER coalition, United Students Against Sweatshops, the Gray Panthers, and Jews United for Justice gathered at the AFL-CIO in downtown Washington and marched to the Capital Hilton, Jefferson, and Renaissance Mayflower hotels, rallying and chanting to demand justice and respect at each hotel.
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NMH Nurses: 2-year Strike not over
PETOSKEY - Nurses continue to strike at Northern Michigan Hospital, RNs on the picket line said, more than two years after they walked out and despite a recent petition that questions whether most of the hospital's nurses wish to remain affiliated with the Teamsters union.
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No Wage Progress Despite Three Years of Recovery
As of last month, the economic recovery that officially began in November 2001 was three years old. Yet, as the figure below reveals, hourly earnings (adjusted for inflation) fell 1.3% over the past year and are now at about the same level now as they were when the recovery began.
Real wages grew strongly in the latter 1990s, and the momentum from that period kept wages rising through the recession and jobless recovery. But even though the economy began to add some jobs last year, the rate of growth has been too slow and inconsistent to absorb the slack that remains in the job market.
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CWA Members Ratify Lucent Agreement
Washington, D.C. – Members of the Communications Workers of America at Lucent Technologies overwhelmingly ratified a seven year, seven-month agreement by a greater than 90 percent vote. The agreement covers 3,400 installers, technicians and other workers at the company.
The settlement increases wages by a compounded 16.28 percent over the contract term, provides a $1,000 ratification bonus and includes a cost-of-living adjustment beginning in 2008. Pension bands will increase by 12 percent in the first year of the contract. The contract remains in effect through May 2012.
Key was CWA's ability to achieve its goals of strengthening employment security while greatly reducing the company's demands for health care cost shifting to active and retired workers.
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