Dave Jamieson

6 days ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

Union supporters delivered a powerful message to REI this week when the cooperative’s members rejected a batch of candidates for its board of directors. The existing board had hand-picked three nominees for the ballot, passing over a pair of union-backed challengers who called for pro-worker voices on the board. The union responded with a “vote no” campaign that urged members to shoot down the board’s preferred candidates as too “corporate” and lacking a commitment to union rights.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Dave Jamieson

Union supporters delivered a powerful message to REI this week when the cooperative’s members rejected a batch of candidates for its board of directors. The existing board had hand-picked three nominees for the ballot, passing over a pair of union-backed challengers who called for pro-worker voices on the board. The union responded with a “vote no” campaign that urged members to shoot down the board’s preferred candidates as too “corporate” and lacking a commitment to union rights.

6 days ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

If you’re loyal to President Donald Trump and his democracy-testing agenda, then you just might land a job in the Trump administration. But if you’re extremely loyal, then you might land three or even four. Last week, the president tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to serve at least temporarily as his new national security adviser, after exiling Mike Waltz of Signal-gate fame to New York City as his new ambassador to the United Nations, pending Senate confirmation.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

American labor unions are calling on El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S., calling his deportation by the Trump administration an “egregious violation of our brother’s rights.”Last month immigration officials wrongly sent Abrego Garcia, an apprentice sheet metal worker who lived in Maryland, to his native El Salvador, where he remains in prison. The Supreme Court has ordered the White House to help bring him back.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

Federal labor unions find themselves in a fight for survival just 100 days into Donald Trump’s presidency. The new administration has attacked collective bargaining as it fires workers and shrinks or eliminates federal departments by fiat. It has tried to gut key agencies that enforce labor rights for federal workers. It has ignored union contracts negotiated by Trump’s predecessor. And it has moved to shut off paycheck dues deduction in order to starve unions of their funding.