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Honoring OPEIU Nurses During National Nurses Month
National Nurses Month begins today. We are thankful for our OPEIU nurses who work hard year round protecting patients and our communities. Together, we will continue to fight for safe staffing levels, safe workplaces and fair wages for ALL nurses.
Happy May Day
Working people across the world are gathering today to celebrate all we’ve won and to commemorate the struggles that came before us. May Day also serves as a reminder of all we have left to win — and that the path to get there runs directly through our nation’s union halls.
Happy May Day!
Honoring Workers’ Memorial Day
Today, we honor the hundreds of thousands of workers who have needlessly lost their lives through preventable workplace hazards or occupational diseases.
More than 5,000 workers died on the job in 2021, according to the AFL-CIO’s annual Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. Workers in the forestry, agriculture, warehouses, mining and construction industries are at especially high risk – a risk made higher by an underfunded OSHA and employer efforts to maximize profits by disregarding the safety of their employees.
Read the latest report here https://aflcio.org/reports/death-job-toll-neglect-2023.
Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day!
Each year, on the last Wednesday of April, OPEIU celebrates Administrative Professionals’ Day. Secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists and other administrative support professionals are responsible for a wide variety of duties and deserve recognition and respect for their hard work throughout the year.
OPEIU is proud to represent administrative professionals in offices, credit unions, nonprofits, hospitals, labor unions, and universities and colleges around the country.
To all administrative professionals: THANK YOU!
In solidarity,
Team OPEIU
Workers Memorial Day
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Tech Workers at findhelp (Formerly Aunt Bertha) Vote to Certify Union, Join OPEIU Local 1010
Austin, Texas (April 12, 2023) – Tech workers at the public benefit corporation findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha) voted 95-52 in an election certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for their labor union, the findhelp Solidarity Network. The union will now begin forming a bargaining committee and initiate the collective bargaining process.
“Today’s an exciting day for all findhelp employees — our union gives us a seat at the table and provides us a voice in our working conditions,” said Leah Norman, community engagement manager and organizing committee member. “Findhelp Solidarity Network looks forward to collaborating with findhelp management to negotiate a contract that fosters our ability to do our best work and support as many people as possible. As the labor movement grows in the tech industry, we are excited to be a part of it!”
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AFL-CIO: Biden’s First Veto the Right Call for Working People
Days like today are why the labor movement fought so hard to elect President Biden. No modern American president has done more to advance the causes of working people, which was made even more evident today by the use of Biden’s veto power to stop Congress’ attempt to roll back a DOL rule concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG). This rule allows private sector retirement investors to consider critical factors when making investment and proxy voting decisions.
The choices made by workers’ pension funds are critical to the retirement security of millions of working families. So instead of putting the retirement security of working people first, some members of Congress chose to prioritize political posturing and culture wars over people’s pocketbooks.
While some politicians want to claim that ESG standards are a way for investors to force a ‘woke’ agenda on Americans’ retirement investment strategies, their politicized strategy is entirely false, ill-informed and just plain wrong. By using reality-based considerations when investing our hard-earned dollars, investors using an ESG lens are doing something their critics refuse to do; deal in reality, not rhetoric.
In his first veto since becoming president, Biden made the right call. He sent a strong and emphatic message to legislators that ESG factors should be left to the professionals, not the politicians.
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