Approve the AFL-CIO Partnership: Common Challenges
All unions in both the private and public sectors nationwide face an increasingly steep uphill battle each time they sit down at the table with management to renegotiate their contracts. Issues that involve union members include decent raises, maintaining core job benefits like quality health care and affordable prescription drug coverage, assuring job security, securing pensions and beating back attacks on our unions, including restrictions on collective bargaining rights, legislatively imposed merit-pay systems and paycheck protection schemes.
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We are not alone in our struggle to fight for what we have earned through our tireless service to the students and families in the Columbus City Schools. By joining the AFL-CIO Labor Solidarity Partnership agreement, we will gain the support of the organized labor community of Columbus, the state of Ohio and the entire nation. The officers and leadership of your Association wholeheartedly recommend voting to join the AFL-CIO Labor Solidarity Partnership Agreement.