Postal Christmas volumes are surging predictably, sometimes resulting in delayed delivery. Parcel numbers have increased dramatically during the pandemic as customers seek to avoid in-person shopping and order on-line or through catalogues. A new Amazon distribution center located just a block from the main Post Office on Milwaukee Street in Madison is absorbing some of […]
Marquette University proposes budget cuts, Union fights back
Marquette University in Milwaukee has announced that they want to cut between 225-450 faculty and staff. The University claims that decreased enrollment due to the COVID-19 pandemic has put them in a tough financial situation, with projections of a $25 million budget deficit. However, the Marquette Academic Workers Union, the union of graduate workers and […]
Hazard Pay Threatened for Willy Street Co-op Workers
The pandemic is still with us and Wisconsin is national hot spot. Nonetheless, the Willy Street Co-op management wants to eliminate hazard pay for frontline workers in their grocery stores. Workers at the co-op have been receiving hazard pay as a result of contract negotiations between the union, UE Local 1186, and management because of […]
Colectivo Workers are Organizing a Union
At Colectivo Coffee, employees are organizing into a union. The company serves coffee, baked good and savory items at cafés in Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Although there had been talk of a union among workers for years, after the COVID pandemic began, the need for a union became more urgent. “There were always talks of […]
Milwaukee Art Museum refuses voluntary recognition of Union
Workers at the Milwaukee Art Museum recently went public with their campaign to organize a labor union. According to a statement posted on the union’s website on Tuesday, the Milwaukee Art Museum has refused to voluntarily recognize the union. The whole statement reads “The museum announced to staff yesterday that they do not intend to […]
Congressional Rep. Pocan holds Day of Action around Postal Service
On Tuesday, succumbing from political pressure, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that he is suspending plans to cut back or even to dismantle much of the United States Postal Service. Also on Tuesday, Wisconsin joined fourteen states in a federal lawsuit claiming that cuts in postal services are an effort to obstruct voting in the […]
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