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Mass transit, railroad, and airline workers. 2017: TWU: Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) 1945 105,000 White-collar workers in the public and private sector. OPEIU: National Rural Letter Carriers' Association (NRLCU) 1903 104,717 United States Postal Service mail delivery workers in rural areas. 2017: NRLCA
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. [2] It represents 1.3 million [1] public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, [3] and childcare providers.
FEVA's primary base of support were workers at the Charlestown Naval Shipyard. President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988 granting collective bargaining rights to federal workers. At the 1961 convention, FEVA delegates voted to change the name of the organization to NAGE and change the purpose of the association to that of a labor union.
In 2010 8.4 million government workers were represented by unions, [19] including 31% of federal workers, 35% of state workers and 46% of local workers. [20] As Daniel Disalvo notes, "In today's public sector, good pay, generous benefits, and job security make possible a stable middle-class existence for nearly everyone from janitors to jailors."
Among the 20,000 grocery workers represented by UFCW Local 770 in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, 7,730 were reported to have caught the coronavirus, according to ...
Manatee County workers on average make $55,068 a year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a rule of thumb, people should not spend more than 30% of their income on housing.
The environmental benefit of local hiring comes principally because employing a greater percentage of local workers leads to shorter commutes and a greater ability to walk, bike, and take public transit to work. This results in reductions in air pollution, including greenhouse gases. Local hiring is an aspect of the relocalization movement ...
The federal minimum has held at $7.25 an hour since 2009, but an increasing number of states are upping their base pay for workers. More than 9 million workers are getting a raise on Jan. 1. Here ...