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The Spectrum Strike was a workers' strike involving 1,200 Spectrum workers in New York City. [1] [2] The strike began on March 23, 2017, [3] when 1,800 Spectrum workers walked off the job in protest of a plan by the company to replace its union healthcare plan and union pension with a company-run healthcare plan and pension plan. [1]
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
Under the agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, roughly 10,000 workers will receive four "cost of living” pay increases totaling at least 10% and as much ...
Unions exist to represent the interests of workers, who form the membership. Under US labor law, the National Labor Relations Act 1935 is the primary statute which gives US unions rights. The rights of members are governed by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959. List Below
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
New York Sun. June 20, 2005. "Hill Elected New President of Electrical Workers Union." Engineering News-Record. February 5, 2001. "IBEW Elects Hill President." Engineering News-Record. October 8, 2001. McKay, Jim. "New IBEW Secretary." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 6, 1997. Naese, Susan. "IBEW-NECA Fund Dumps 2 Top Executives." Pensions ...
CWA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers, which number comparatively about 7% of the size of the union's membership. This accounts for 166,491 "non-dues-paying retirees" and 52,240 "dues-paying retirees", plus about 43,353 non-members paying agency fees, compared to 404,289 "active" members.
In the first years of the Great Depression, a number of AFL member unions advocated for a relaxation of the strict "craft union only" membership policy but to no avail. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 1932, Mine Workers president John L. Lewis privately proposed to several like-minded union presidents that those unions which wanted to organize workers on an ...