Organizing for Justice in our Communities

In the face of declining standards and diminished resources for bedside care, nurses and other staff at St. Mary's Hospital and Dean clinics are building their union to advocate for better patient care, fair pay and improved working conditions.

We call on SSM to refrain from union busting and come to the bargaining table now.

Many employers, big and small, have done this, as it benefits the workplace and the business as well. When they do sign an agreement, it demonstrates their commitment to giving their employees a voice on the job.

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The Park Street location is Madison's second busiest corridor, regularly traveled by many of our Union and community members on their way to and from work. There are many unions, non-profits, and community members who work at, hold events at, or visit the Madison Labor Temple, just down the block from the new grocery store. They want to support and shop at a store where workers have strong, family-sustaining union jobs backed by a collective bargaining agreement!

Legal Action of Wisconsin has repeatedly rejected the Union’s proposals to increase non-attorney salaries to actual living wages. And it’s not because they don’t have the money. 

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United Legal Workers consists of unionized attorneys in the Madison and Milwaukee Office and unionized paralegals, legal trainee advocates, and a legal secretary in the Madison Office of Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc. ULW is a unit of National Organization of Legal Services Workers, UAW Local 2320, AFL-CIO.

Tens of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) are urging members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's announced plan to relocate Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah, and eliminate all regional offices.

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This is not a management reform. It is a reckless dismantlement of the workforce and institutional structure responsible for managing more than 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands that belong to the American people.