Site Map Icon
RSS Feed icon
 
 
 

Today in Labor History

July 7, 1882
Striking New York longshoremen meet to discuss ways to keep new immigrants from scabbing. They were successful, at least for a time. On July 14, 500 newly arrived Jews marched straight from their ship to the union hall. On July 15, 250 Italian immigrants stopped scabbing on the railroad and joined the union.  
~ Labor Tribune

Member Login
Username:

Password:


Not registered yet?
Click Here to sign-up

Forgot Your Login?
  Member Resources  
     



UnionActive Newswire
 
Join the Newswire!
Updated: Jul. 07 (22:04)

Yellow Corp Bankruptcy Update 07-07-2025
Teamsters Local 776
Funeral Arrangements for Dave Rudolph's Father
Saint Louis Police Officers Association
Huge Local Win For Maintenance Craft!
APWU Cleveland Area Local
July Meetings Canceled
Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO
UPS Contract Webinar
Teamsters Local 776
AMFA-Spirit Negotiations Update #18
AMFA
 
     

Wages Have Risen Due to Minimum Wage Hikes, Fed's Obama Policies
Updated On: Dec 04, 2019
Dec. 4, 2019 | WAGES |… The data on this are very clear. The weekly wage for the median worker, a worker in the middle of the wage distribution, has outpaced prices by just under 5 percent over the last four years, translating into an annual rate of real wage growth of 1.1 percent. The weekly real wage for workers at the cutoff for the bottom tenth of the wage distribution has risen by almost 10 percent over the last four years, an average of 2.2 percent a year. These rates of wage growth aren’t spectacular, but in a context where we have gone more than four decades in which the typical worker has seen little benefit from economic growth, this is a positive sign. It also confirms the view that some of us have been pushing: that low rates of unemployment give workers the bargaining power necessary to secure real wage gains... TruthOut
 
 
Teamsters Local 992
Copyright © 2025, All Rights Reserved.
Powered By UnionActive™
Visit Unions-America.com!

Top of Page image