Local 153 Business Manager Richard Lanigan and the union's administration team were re-elected by acclamation at a general membership meeting held on September 21. It will be Lanigan's second term as Business Manager, and he and the rest of the elected administration will serve for three years.
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Local 153 members at BioBus have their first contract! The employees at this non-profit began organizing in December, 2020 and won recognition the following month after a unanimous vote to join Local 153.
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The professional staff at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering approved a new contract that raises their wages and improves their benefits, ending nearly a year of difficult contract negotiations. The bargaining unit of 38 non-teaching employees voted unanimously to ratify the six-year contract on November 15, 2021.
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The staff at Bates College staff made headlines recently with their efforts to unionize. With that unionization effort has come a sharp backlash from the Bates administration.
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A successful card check in April has led employees at the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) to receive voluntary recognition for the union they have chosen, Local 153.
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On February 27 the House of Representatives passed a bill to provide relief to endangered multi-employer pension plans.
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Members of the City Bar Justice Center (CBJC) union have ratified their first contract. Their agreement, which the group negotiated over the course of five months with representatives from Local 153, represents major gains for the union.
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Employees at BioBus recently voted unanimously to join the Local 153. The bargaining unit includes community scientists, drivers, workers in development, IT, and more. Employees spent four months building strength among coworkers before filing for an election in December 2020. On January 29, the group won union representation and the right to collectively bargain.
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A year ago at this time, none of us could have ever imagined that the world as we knew it would soon change so swiftly, so dramatically and so terribly.
But we want you to know that even though so many of us have been suffering greatly through a pandemic that has created the most difficult period our country has ever faced, Local 153 is still on the job.
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 OPEIU Student Debt Reduction Program.
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Below please find a list of benefits available to workers through various Union Plus programs, as well as the AFL-CIO's updated "When the Paycheck Stops" manual, which provides information on surviving unemployment and includes a link to their labor liaison network and labor agencies.
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If you’re looking for help with housing costs, you’re not alone.
State and local organizations are distributing federal rental assistance in their communities. The money can help landlords and renters who are struggling to keep up with rent and other bills.
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Please see the information below from the NYC Central Labor Council:
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Click for information related to the Coronavirus from the AFL-CIO.
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On October 2, 2020, Municipal Credit Union members voted overwhelmingly to accept a three-year contract.
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Fresh on the heels of a difficult contract fight that resulted in a new four-year contract, the Federation of Catholic Teachers (FCT) has stood up to other issues of great concern to its members.
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Local 153 members and their families can now get their bachelor’s degree for much less through the new OPEIU Low-Cost Degree Program.
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OPEIU Local offers its members in good standing the Accident Prevention/Defensive Driving Online Course for NY and NJ drivers.
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On Friday, June 28, 2019, long time President of the Local 153 Retirees Association and prolific union organizer, Charlie Ponti Sr., passed away.
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OPEIU, Local 153 is offering a fully-managed identity theft restoration and monitoring program...
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OPEIU represents many nonprofit social service and advocacy members. We’ve created an organizing campaign calledNEU—Nonprofit Employees United—to reach out to unorganized nonprofit staff. NEU provides organizing space for people in this sector interested in building a workplace union.
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OPEIU local unions and individual members have been extremely generous and responsive to our calls for support of the OPEIU Relief Fund for those affected by recent hurricanes. The funds you have donated have been quickly distributed to those OPEIU members in greatest need in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico has experienced more than 2,400 earthquakes in the past 30 days. There are more than 2,000 people living in shelters, nearly 1 million without power and hundreds of thousands without water.
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The Local 153 Executive Board, at its Tuesday, October 10 meeting, approved a $10,000 contribution for aid to Puerto Rico payable to the OPEIU Relief Fund. The OPEIU is using funds to purchase generators, which are much in need on the island.
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As we’ve often noted before, Local 153 general membership meetings are always the best way for members to learn more about their benefits, meet their union’s leaders and have any questions answered. Special guests often add to the important information distributed at these meetings, and there are almost always added highlights—in the last two years there have been raffles, video presentations, and even a fashion show!
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It has been a very busy last few months at Local 153 with more than a dozen new contracts successfully negotiated. Besides the new agreements at Harvard Maintenance, Inc. and the Evening Journal Association, reported elsewhere in this edition, the union had numerous other contract victories.
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Local 153 has negotiated with Harvard Maintenance, Inc. (HMI) to be the first group into OPEIU’s new 401(k) Plan, announced Business Representative Dan Ross.
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Local 153 conducted a shop stewards training on Friday, November 4 at Rutgers University’s Labor Education Center, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The training was presented by OPEIU President and Local 153 Secretary-Treasurer Richard Lanigan, as seen in this photo, and it centered on discipline in the workplace. Nearly 30 shop stewards attended this training from both public and private sector shops all across New Jersey.
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