News from 1180

• City Agrees to Settlement in Parks Dept. Bias Case (2/08)

• Poverty Is Poison

• "Show me the proof" (1/08)

• Critics say Labor Board favors business (12/07)

• Administrative Manager test key posted (7/07)

• City cracks down on email and Internet use (5/07)

• Local 1180 launches new Organizing Committee (4/07)

• High court strips Weingarten rights for public employees (3/07)

• Why we need the ADA (12/06)

• Future activists attend Youth 'n' Union workshop (8/06)

• Shop steward elections set for September (8/06)

• Local 1180 joins sanitation workers, Teamsters, teachers, and other municipal unions in historic new coalition to bargain with the city (6/06)

• Bloomberg seeks to slash retirement benefits (6/06)

• Youth 'n' Union workshop scheduled for July 22 (6/06)

• The new war on unions (5/06)
  Rick Berman fought the minimum wage on behalf of the fast food lobby, got paid by liquor companies to attack Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and slammed parents worried about childhood obesity as “food police.” Now he's going after labor.

• Members support Katrina victims (5/06)

• Summer camp at a union discount (4/06)

• Local 1180 turns 40 (1/06)
  • A brief history of the union
  • Members from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s reflect
  • President Arthur Cheliotes on his vision for the local

• Bush's labor board guts workers' rights (12/05)

• Local 1180 officers reelected (11/05)

• Civil rights activist Rosa Parks dies at age 92 (10/05)

• Responding to Katrina (10/05)
  Union members show their compassion

• New legal benefit (9/05)
  For children and dependents of members

• Coverage changes for PICA medications (9/05)
  Some costs to members will increase

• Labor movement splits (7/05)
  On day one of the AFL-CIO’s 50th anniversary convention in Chicago, the Service Employees union (SEIU) and the Teamsters called a press conference to announce that they were leaving the federation. UFCW disaffiliated shortly thereafter.

• Local 1180 newspaper, website, and radio program sweep labor communications awards (7/05)

• Local 1180 launches new Organizing Committee and Hispanic Caucus (5/05)

• Deal struck on PICA drugs (4/05)
  The city and the Municipal Labor Committee struck a deal April 1 that provides a short-term fix for the ailing health benefits program.

• 1180 and Proud! (3/05)
  1180 Plans to Sweep AJOS Election April 4,
  Hundreds of Members at Stake

• PICA negotiations continue (3/05)
  Facing mounting opposition, the NYC Labor Commissioner has reversed course and is now negotiating with the Municipal Labor Committee

• Budget battles loom large (3/05)
  Health care, education, transportation fall under the axe

• AJOS: Why vote for 1180? (3/05)
  by Arthur Cheliotes

• Is social security racist? (3/05)

• OCB orders election to decide union representation of AJOS title (1/05)

• A special message from Local 1180 President Arthur Chelioties on the AJOS election (1/05)

• Labor at the crossroads: Unions debate strategy and structure in the face of continuing decline (1/05)
  The crisis in the labor movement, the debate on what to do about it, and where 1180 members fit into it all

• Ends and means (1/05)
  By Arthur Cheliotes
  If we want members to be actively involved in their unions, then we have to actively involve members in the process of rebuilding and growing their unions

• City threatens to end PICA benefit program (1/05)
  The move would put financial strain on union benefit funds because of skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs

• Coordinating Managers move closer to union representation (1/05)

• Fear triumphed over hope in the November election (1/05)
  The 2004 election spells bad news for workers, minorities and the rest of the world

• The urgent need for election reform (1/05)
  By Linda Jenkins

• Re-defeat Bush! (10/04)
  1180 members stump for Kerry and mobilize to send Bush back to Texas
  

• The battle for voting rights continues (11/04)
  by Arthur Cheliotes
  Voter intimidation is alive and well in 2004; we must not let history repeat itself in this way

• Hudreds of thousands take to the streets and send a message to the GOP: Go home! (10/01)

• Shame on you, HRA! (9/04)
  Three years after its creation, the AJOS title in HRA has been nothing but a disaster for workers and clients alike

• Workers comp statistics bill signed into law (9/04)

• Building a united municipal labor movement (7/04)
  Unenthusiastic response to contract settlement puts coalition bargaining back on the agenda

• 311 workers join 1180 (7/04)

• Union wins suspension case on illegal welfare policy (7/04)

• Organizing (5/04)
  Slow but steady headway in organizing additional titles

• Time to rethink the city charter's "Citywide Agreement” (7/04)
  By Bill Henning

• Payout dates for city contract (7/04)

• City budget talk for FY05 ignore structural deficit (5/04)

• Brown v. Board of Education 50 years later (5/04)
  by Linda Jenkins

• HHC Found Guilty! (1/04)
  Guilty of interference, restraint, and coercion of public employees in the exercise of their rights at work, as protected in the New York City Collective Bargaining law, HHC was ordered to "not interfere with the holding of union membership meetings on HHC property during off-hours."

• War spending in tight times; Members say: "It Makes No Sense" (11/03)

• Hands off our health benefits (11/03)
  By Bill Henning

• Arbitrator backs 1180 in “experience differential” grievance (11/03)

• CWA 1180 Rallies with 'Freedom Riders' to Call for Immigrant Rights (10/03)

• Reformed or Wrecked? (9/03)
  1180 members speak out on the future of New York City's schools

• September Freedom Ride demands immigrant rights (9/03)

• Arrogance as a policy (9/03)
  By Arthur Cheliotes
  The city isn’t a business: it’s a public trust. That fact seems to be lost to this Administration.

• CWA/NETT provides high-tech training to 1180 members (7/03)
  "I didn't know it was as simple as it was to build a computer," says one 1180 member

• BCB case expands union rights for city workers (6/03)
  Ruling means members have right to union representation in disciplinary hearings

• Billions to kill people, nothing to help them live (4/03)
  By Linda Jenkins
  Bush spends $75 billion on war while states face fiscal crises, unemployment rises and millions cannot get healthcare

• Labor's anti-war commitment grows as protests continue (3/03)
  A quarter of a million march in NYC; the AFL passes a historic resolution (for more on the anti-war movement, 1180's role in it, and more, see the Political Action page)

• Why organizing matters (1/03)
  By Linda Jenkins
  All of us has a stake in the organizing more workers, and each of us has a role to play if we are to succeed
  

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