Apollo Alliance Honors AFL-CIO’s Baugh
The Apollo Alliance’s Right Stuff Award honors outstanding individuals whose work exemplifies the group’s mission to catalyze the new clean energy economy. Last night in San Francisco, Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, joined the list of Right Stuff honorees whose work is creating a new green economy.
The Alliance said Baugh received the award because:
As leader of the AFL-CIO’s manufacturing policy and legislative initiatives, Bob has had a life-long commitment to labor and the environment and has never believed in the false choice between jobs and the environment.
Thousands of Graduate Assistants Join AFT
Strong-arm tactics by the Central Michigan University (CMU) administration—including a last-minute letter filled with anti-union rhetoric and innuendo—couldn’t sway graduate assistants from exercising their freedom to form a union and bargain for a better life.
On Monday and Tuesday, the CMU graduate assistants voted overwhelmingly to join the Graduate Student Union/AFT. The 450 teaching and administrative assistants teach, grade, tutor and perform administrative duties on the university’s Mt. Pleasant campus.
Also last week, graduate assistants at Florida State University (FSU) voted to join FSU Graduate Assistants United (FSU-GAU), a Florida Education Association/NEA/AFT affiliate. The new union will represent 2,800 graduate employees.
