Rally in Support of IAM Local 598 Dow employees
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WHAT:
Rally for IAM Local 598 members, currently on strike at Dow Chemical in South Charleston, as they fight for fair wages and benefits.
WHEN:
Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, at 4 p.m.
WHERE:
437 MacCorkle Ave. SW, South Charleston, WV
The following is a press release from IAM District 54.
COCA COLA: NOT TOO REFRESHING TO THEIR BECKLEY BRANCH EMPLOYEES
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Employees at Coca Cola in Beckley, WV voted to join Teamsters Local 175 early this year. After 5 months of negotiations between the TeamstersUnion and Coca Cola, the parties have been able to reach an agreement on a number of issues that would become part of a new contract. However, those negotiations came to a halt on Friday afternoon when the Company informed the Union they were unwilling to make any changes to their health insurance plan which includes outrageously high deductibles as well as co pays for the newly organized workers. To put it in perspective, the company wants the Beckley employees to pay 2-3 times more for a health insurance plan than other unionized employees in the State. Meaning those employees could be subject up to $12,000 per year of out of pocket expenses.
Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday
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Volunteers from throughout the community will gather Saturday, May 11, at the main Post Office in Charleston to help load and distribute perishable food collected for local food pantries as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. They will be assisted by the West Virginia National Guard.
“Thanks to our outstanding contributors and volunteers, each year we are able to help area pantries feed more than 30,000 West Virginians,” NALC Annual Food Drive Coordinator RD Henson said.
Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday
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Volunteers from throughout the community will gather Saturday, May 11, at the main Post Office in Charleston to help load and distribute perishable food collected for local food pantries as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. They will be assisted by the West Virginia National Guard.
“Thanks to our outstanding contributors and volunteers, each year we are able to help area pantries feed more than 30,000 West Virginians,” NALC Annual Food Drive Coordinator RD Henson said.
Ceremony Sunday to honor WV workers who died on the job
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BENWOOD – To honor West Virginia workers who died on the job - 20 were lost in 2023 - the West Virginia AFL-CIO and the Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler Central Labor Council will hold the 36th annual Workers Memorial Ceremony Sunday, April 28, in Benwood, WV.
“As we do each year, we will read the names of West Virginians who lost their lives due to workplace injury and illness, take a moment to pay tribute to them, and vow to keep fighting for the promise of safe jobs for all workers,” West Virginia AFL-CIO President Josh Sword said. “In 2023, 20 West Virginians lost their lives while on the job. They were first responders, coal miners, utility workers, those in the timber industry and transportation, our friends and neighbors, and they should have returned home safely to their loved ones.”
We are a group of more than 575 affiliated unions joined together for the common cause of fairness for all workers.
The future of the working men and women of America depends on a strong, united labor movement. The strength of that movement is in our numbers: thousands of men and women united, striving for the same common goals
- fairness, justice, and equality in the workplace.
