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Tell Your Representative to Protect Working People
The AFL-CIO just released its annual report on workplace deaths in the United States. Nearly 50 years after the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, it is clear we have much more work to do to ensure every working person comes home after a day’s work.
Write your representative today and tell them to protect working people by supporting H.R. 1309: the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act of 2019. http://bit.ly/CongressShouldProtectWorkingPeople
Read the full AFL-CIO report here: http://bit.ly/AFLCIO-TheTollOfNeglect
Make Sure Your Easter is Union Made
Make sure your Easter celebration this weekend is union made! Visit http://www.aflcio.org/easter for a full list of union-made treats to fill your Easter basket and your holiday dinner table.
Employers Can Buy Retirement Security for $2.64 an Hour
Nearly one-third of households aged 55 and older have no retirement savings and no pension. OPEIU believes that those who have worked their entire lives deserve better than retiring into poverty.
No Vote on NAFTA Until It Protects Working People
When NAFTA was ratified in 1993, working people paid the price as corporations outsourced good-paying jobs to low-wage countries. Now, as the trade deal is being renegotiated, we cannot allow corporations and billionaires to dictate priorities again. Call your representative NOW at 1-855-856-7545 and tell them to protect the interests of working people by demanding protection from outsourcing, solid enforcement mechanisms, and benefits for working families – not just billionaires – on both sides of the border.
Thinking about a spring road trip?
Don’t leave town without your car rental savings! Union members save up to 25% on car rental rates with the Union Plus Car Rental Program.
Learn more: https://unionplus.deals/c194d
Unions Helping Nebraska’s Working Families!
Area local unions are accepting donations to help Nebraskans in their flooding clean-up efforts! Please take cleaning supply donations to the following drop off locations from March 20th through April 19th
DONATION SITES:
Omaha Federation of Labor • 6001 Grover St., Ste 2 │ Omaha: 9am – 5pm Monday ― Friday (use north side of bldg., west door and go to the 2nd floor)
Lincoln Central Labor Union • 4625 Y St. │ Lincoln: Mondays 9am – 5pm and Saturdays 8am – Noon
Central Nebraska Central Labor Union • IBEW 1597 Hall • 3302 W. Capital Ave. │ Grand Island: Monday – Friday 5pm to 7pm. (beginning March 25)
Midwest Nebraska Central Labor Council │ North Platte: Contact Scott Salisbury • 308.636.8422
Send Your Child to Camp this Summer
OPEIU will award twenty scholarships for children, between the ages of 13 and 16, of OPEIU members or associate members.
The one-week summer camp will be held July 14-19 at the University of Missouri Campus in Columbia, Mo., and will teach children about the labor movement, while providing fun summer activities such as camping, boating and swimming.
Applications are due April 30 and winners will be selected and notified by email by May 31.
All rules and regulations, as well as applications for OPEIU scholarships can be obtained from the OPEIU website at www.opeiu.org. Click on Member Resources/OPEIU Membership Benefits link.
Don’t miss out!
Apply today.
AT&T Signature Program Discounts through Union Plus
Looking for wireless savings this season? With the AT&T Signature Program Discounts through Union Plus, union members can take advantage of special discounts on wireless!
Learn More: https://unionplus.deals/9099e
OPEIU Local 182 Members Are Asking for FAIR Wages in Nashville—and They Need Our Help
Our sisters and brothers who work at the United Steelworkers’ Benefit Fund are asking for our help in their fight for fair wages. Many who work for the Fund are forced to work second jobs because they are not paid what they are worth.
We believe one job should be enough: all working people deserve to be paid a fair wage.
Show solidarity with Local 182 members who are fighting for fairness in Nashville, Tennessee, by signing their petition. In doing so, you make it clear that, as an OPEIU member, you are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your sisters and brothers in their fight for a fair contract.
https://form.jotform.com/opeiu/FairWagesforLocal182