C4. Radical Labor

NNU’s Executive Council, elected by national nurse membership, voted to endorse Harris on the heels of President Biden’s announcement that he would no longer be seeking reelection.

Over the past four years, and throughout his career, President Joe Biden has worked to improve the lives of working people across this country. Under his leadership, his administration has embraced nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community. National Nurses United is deeply grateful for his service and dedication to our nation.

Registered nurses from Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif., will attend the Tuesday, July 23 San Benito County Board of Supervisors special meeting to discuss their ongoing concerns about patient safety and the future of the public hospital.

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My name is Charles Mwangi and I am a bisexual man from Kenya. I fled to Canada in 2019 because I was at risk of being killed back home. Before coming, I was told people like me would be safe in Canada. But now my life is in danger again because I have been asked to buy a ticket to leave the country by July 31 – less than two weeks away. 

Right now, Kenya is considering passing laws similar to Uganda which would allow people like me to be executed. The media is full of news about the targeting of gay people. 

Since coming to Canada in 2019, I’ve worked in the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic as a personal support worker. I took care of elderly people when no one else did. I now work at two shelters for both youth and adults as a housekeeper and personal support worker  in Toronto.

I have been speaking publicly and in the media about my sexuality – including in the Toronto Star, City News and CTV. People in Kenya know who I am, and if I am deported, my life will be in grave danger. 

I’m waiting for a decision on my permanent residency application based on humanitarian grounds. But this application doesn’t stop me from being deported. 

I am reaching out to you for your support! Can you take 30 seconds to email the Immigration and Public Safety Ministers, and your local MP, using this tool below. Please help stop my deportation and the 40 deportations that happen everyday to people like me.

Two years ago, Prime Minister Trudeau promised to regularize the status of hundreds of thousands of undocumented people like Charles. Yet, he is now on the brink of deportation. We must hold the Prime Minister and Ministers accountable to keep this promise and protect people like Charles.

More on Charles’ story:

Toronto Star – He came out as bisexual and undocumented to urge Canada to deliver on overdue plan to grant permanent status to people like him

City News – Undocumented bisexual migrant fighting for status to save his life

City News – Undocumented 2SLGBTQI+ migrants call on PM for more protections

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Registered nurses at University Medical Center (UMC) in New Orleans, Louisiana. will hold an information picket on Wednesday, July 17 to highlight their frustrations over hospital management’s inaction against dangerous conditions for nurses and patients.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will be on strike at Menzies Aviation starting on Monday (15 July 2024). Workers at Menzies Aviation are fed up with the management because it refuses to convert workers who are on Permanent Hourly Pay (PHP) to Permanent Monthly Pay (PMP).

This situation has a direct and negative impact on workers because if you are on hourly pay, it means you can never be sick. Workers are paid for the hours they work and if they are sick or on leave for any reason, they do not get paid, and this has a direct impact on their source of income. There are many workers who force themselves to work, even when sick because they do not want to end up with lower pay.

NUMSA has been negotiating for Menzies workers to be converted to monthly workers in order to minimize fatigue. We are proposing that they work a minimum of 195 hours per month, but the company is proposing that they work 165 in all airports, except OR Tambo, where management is proposing 195 hours for workers at OR Tambo only. This proposal has been rejected because it is a divide and rule tactic because it means workers at OR Tambo will benefit, but other workers will not.

At the same time, we have received reports from some of our members who are complaining that management is attempting to intimidate them and stop them from participating in the strike. We want to warn the bosses at Menzies Aviation that a strike is a constitutional right and they have no right to try and bully them into stopping the strike.

Menzies Aviation deals with ramp and baggage handling. It also deals with checking in passengers before flights. Their clients include Safair, Qatar, Qantas and Cathay Pacific.

The strike will begin at 4AM on Monday morning and Menzies Aviation workers in Cape Town, East London, PE, King Shaka, and OR Tambo Airport will be participating.

The media is invited to the picket outside the company offices, details below:

Date : Monday 15 July, 2024

Time: 09:00 -11:00AM

Address: No 1 Jones Road; OT International Airport, Kempton park

Aluta continua!

The struggle continues!

Issued by Irvin Jim

NUMSA General Secretary

For more information, please contact:

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola

NUMSA National Spokesperson

0833767725

NUMSA Head Office number: 0116891700

NUMSA YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsUlgwplI34&t=31s

NUMSA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NumsaSocial

NUMSA Twitter account: @Numsa_Media

NUMSA Website: https://numsa.org.za/

PDF DOWNLOAD: NUMSA members to strike at Menzies Aviation

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As registered nurses who fight every shift to keep patients safe, we condemn the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally today. Nurses know that violence is never the solution to our country’s problems and polarized political climate. We wish everyone injured a full and complete recovery.

Nurses at HCA hospitals in the Kansas City area will hold two informational pickets on July 16 and July 17 to protest management’s refusal to address RNs’ concerns about patient care and safe staffing in on-going contract negotiations.

National Nurses United today announced they have endorsed Congresswoman Cori Bush for re-election in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, where she has fought to protect nurses and patients with real solutions that comprehensively address the nurse staffing crisis, strengthen unions, protect working families, and guarantee health care for all.

Making history as the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record, Hurricane Beryl left a trail of destruction that devastated migrant farmworker communities in the Caribbean. Farmworkers feed you and sustain the Canadian economy – now they are asking for your support to keep food on their families’ tables and rebuild their homes.

40 farmworker members of MWAC and their families in Jamaica and St Vincent have been impacted by the storm and we are seeking $150/member in emergency funds for food, roof repairs, and flood recovery.

• $10 can buy 10 chicken noodle soup mix packets
• $58 can purchase a large zinc roofing sheet

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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will be participating in the mediation which has been initiated by the CCMA in terms of section 150 of the Labour Relations Act. In terms of the legislation the CCMA is empowered to invite parties who are engaged in a wage dispute, to participate in conciliation if the dispute is in the public interest.

NUMSA will be participating in this process, and we will adopt an open mind, in order to ensure that we play our role, in finding a speedy resolution to the strike.

NUMSA represents 286 out of 300 workers at Gautrain and our members began the strike on Monday. We are demanding a 9% wage increase and we are also demanding that Gautrain allow NUMSA shopstewards to represent members, and, for workers to be compensated with overtime, when they work 6 days a week.

We do not think our demands are unreasonable. The lowest paid worker earns R8000 P/M without any benefits. The cost of living is extremely high if one factors in the petrol price, and the fact that the average food basket costs over R5300.

However, Gautrain receives R2 billion subsidies from the state every year. Furthermore, Gautrain management rewarded itself with R22 000 in bonuses but blue collar workers were denied this bonus. This is unfair and it is part of the reason our members are on strike.

It is against this backdrop that workers’ rejected the bosses wage offer of 5.6% because this is way below inflation.

NUMSA also participated in a meeting with the Gautrain Management Authority earlier today, where representatives from the office of the MEC for Transport, were also present. The atmosphere of the meeting was positive and we hope that a speedy resolution will be found to settle the strike. We have always said the door to engagement remains open. However, as long as a meaningful offer has not been placed on the table by the employer, the strike will continue indefinitely.

We call on all parties to work with the union so that an amicable resolution to the strike can be founds

ENDS

For more information, please contact:

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola

>NUMSA National Spokesperson

0833767725

phakamileh@numsa.org.za

NUMSA Head Office number: 0116891700

NUMSA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NumsaSocial

NUMSA Twitter account: @Numsa_Media

NUMSA Website: https://numsa.org.za/

PDF DOWNLOAD: NUMSA will be participating in mediation with the CCMA to try and resolve the strike at Gautrain

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Nurses at Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte, Fla., will hold a rally on Monday, July 8, to protest HCA’s failure to address nurses’ grave concerns over chronic short staffing and patient safety during the current contract negotiations.

Migrant workers deserve rights, not punishment. Tens of thousands of graduated international students on post-graduate work permits (PGWP) who completed studies, worked for years and built their homes in Canada are facing mass deportation because their permits are expiring. Send a message below to PM Trudeau, Immigration Minister Miller and your MP to stop PGWP injustice and let workers stay.

If you want to share your own story, add it in the petition text directly below.

Endorsed by: Cooper Institute, the PEI PGWP Holders, the PEI Action Team for Migrant Worker Rights, and BIPOC USHR

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¡El 28 de julio, l@s miembr@s de la Alianza (MWAC) de todo el país se reunirán en Toronto y Vancouver para celebrar nuestras victorias, construir unidad y renovar nuestra membresía! Este es nuestro momento de conectarnos y volver a comprometernos a construir nuestro poder junt@s.

Regístrese usando el siguiente formulario:

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On July 28, MWAC Members across the country are gathering in Toronto and Vancouver to celebrate our wins, build unity, and renew our membership! This is our time to connect and recommit to building our power together.

Sign up using the form below:

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The Lindo family – including George and his wife Jillandre, and their four children, including Tamarri, a rising track and field star and Olympic hopeful, and four-year-old Tameliah, who is a Canadian citizen – have been issued 1 year Temporary Resident Permits as well as work and study permits after a cross-country outcry and sustained media attention. 

Their deportation scheduled for July 10, 2024 was stopped because nearly 2,000 people wrote letters to Prime Minister Trudeau and Immigration Minister Marc Miller (scroll below for the petition), and hundreds of others made phone calls, calling on the federal government to take action. 

Prime Minister Trudeau promised regularization – permanent resident status for undocumented people – in December 2021. Had the promise been kept, this family would not have gone through this crisis.

Take action now: Send an email to PM Trudeau now and demand that he Regularize Everyone!

“After much tribulation and stress, finally receiving a Temporary Resident Permit (TRP) from IRCC, allowing my family and me to stay in Canada for a year, feels like a breath of fresh air. While the journey towards permanent residency continues, this TRP is significant and brings renewed hope for the future. I’m grateful to all parties involved for their continued and unwavering support. At the same time, this should not have happened, and should not happen to anyone. I urge the government to keep their promise and regularize all undocumented people.”
– George Lindo.

“Thank you everyone who has supported us. I am grateful the Lindo family is finally securing status—status that should have been granted when the family first arrived in Canada. I also know that there are many others like them who are deported and killed. To stop this from happening again, the government must grant permanent resident status to undocumented people arriving in Canada to make a better life.”

– Aidan Simardone, the family’ immigration lawyer. 

Tamarri is an exceptional athlete with deep ties to his community. He deserves to stay. At the same time, every day at least 40 people are torn away from their families and communities and deported to places of danger and death despite Prime Minister Trudeau promising to ensure equal rights for undocumented people. Every one of them are beloved champions of their communities, each of them deserves life and status.

The Lindo family fled to Canada in 2019 to escape targeted violence in Jamaica. George, a political opposition member, survived three assassination attempts. Despite their desperate situation, their refugee claim was denied due to lack of legal representation. Despite their deep ties to Canada, their humanitarian and compassionate application – the last resort for undocumented people – was also denied. The TRP provides them one year within which to try to gain status again through the humanitarian and compassionate application process – unless a regularization program is implemented by then.

Take action now: Send an email to PM Trudeau now and demand that he Regularize Everyone!

More on the family’s story:

Yes Everything – On Canada Day, a family fights a deportation order

CBC News – Toronto track star with Olympic dreams faces deortation.

The Hill Times – One family’s fight to stay in Canada while feds mull making it easier for undocumented people to gain status.

CTV News- He had dreams of running for Canada in the Olympics, then he learned his family would be deported.

SportsMax – Olympic hopeful Tamarri Lindo faces deportation to Jamaica amidst Olympic dreams.

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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) welcomes the signing of another above inflation increase at Almar Investments in Boshoek, in the North West. (We signed another agreement a couple of days ago with the plant in Wonderkop).

This wage agreement is similar to the Wonderkop one, in that we agreed to an above inflation increase to ensure that workers across these two plants are able to benefit from meaningful increases. This is a three year agreement.

1. The wage agreement is valid from the 1st of March 2024 and expires on the 28th of Feb 2027.

2. Workers will receive a 7% increase for the first year, 7,5% increase for the second year and 7% increase for the third year of the agreement.

3. Workers will receive back pay on the 28th of June and it will be calculated from 13 February to the 12th of June.

4. The site allowances shall be increased in line with the across the board increases which have been secured for each year of the agreement.

5. A Task Team comprising of both NUMSA and management will be set up to negotiate Risk Allowances, Housing allowance and Full Time Shop steward Agreement, and that negotiations must be concluded within 6 months, counting from the date of signing the current new wage agreement.

NUMSA continues to be sword and a shield for the working class and if a company is able to make profits, it must share the wealth with workers, because they create wealth and this agreement reflects that.

The union appreciates the hard work of the national and regional officials as well as Shopstewards for the role they play in negotiating on behalf of workers. We also want to thank our members for having faith in the union.

Aluta continua!

Issued by Irvin Jim

NUMSA General Secretary

For more information, please contact:

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola

NUMSA National Spokesperson

0833767725

phakamileh@numsa.org.za

NUMSA Head Office number: 0116891700

NUMSA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NumsaSocial

NUMSA Twitter account: @Numsa_Media

NUMSA Website: https://numsa.org.za/

PDF DOWNLOAD: NUMSA welcomes the signing of another above inflation agreement with Almar investments in Boshoek

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National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses’ union and professional association today condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eviscerating the role of regulatory agencies. The 6-3 decision, effectively overturned a 1984 legal precedent known as “Chevron deference,” which allows experts in regulatory agencies to define implementation of laws passed by Congress.

Come and join us on Sunday, July 7 from 12 – 4PM at Dufferin Grove Park, just in front of Dufferin Mall. Let’s talk about the new program and what still needs to be done over food and drinks. We will also  hear from some of the former careworkers and other organizers about the journey on how we got the new program. There will be music, food and drinks and you are encourage to bring your friends and co workers.

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Registered nurses at Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz., will hold a rally on Monday, July 1, to highlight troubling patient safety concerns and chronic short staffing that jeopardizes patient care.