GFT HEALTH FAIR & TB TEST: SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2016 FROM 10AM – 2PM AT THE GFT COMPOUND
The GFT Annual Health Fair and TB Test will be held on Saturday, August 13, 2016 from 10am – 2pm at the GFT Compound in Mangilao. TB Tests are free for GFT members and their immediate family! Please bring shot records or any other required documents....
Representing GovGuam Agencies and Alutiiq Bus Drivers
GFT, AFT Local 1581, exclusively represents the Guam Department of Education Teachers and Support Staff, Guam Memorial Hospital Nurses and Staff, University of Guam Support Staff, Guam Community College Support Staff, Guam Waterworks, Guam Fire Department, Department of Public Health and Social Services Eligibility Specialists, Guam Port Authority, Department of Public Works Bus Drivers, Alutiiq Bus Drivers, Guam Police Department, Customs and Quarantine, Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and the Department of Corrections, Port Authority of Guam Police I and II, Port Security Guard (Armed), Psychiatric Nurses, Psychiatric Technicians, and Department of Public Works Sanitation Division.
OVER 300 UNITED STEELWORKERS (USW) UNION DELEGATES AT THE NATIONAL OIL BARGAINING CONFERENCE HERE OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED THE NATIONAL OIL BARGAINING POLICY COMMITTEES PROPOSALS FOR 2009 BARGAINING.
United Steelworkers Delegates Approve National Oil Bargaining Policy. Provisions in the National Oil Bargaining policy ensure that our oil facilities and communities will be safer and that oil workers will be able to take care of their families, said USW International...
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ASK GUAMS SENATORIAL CANDIDATES?
GFT will be holding a Senatorial Forum and we would like to know what you want to ask them. What issues are more important to you and your family? What questions do you think we should ask them? Please email your input to irish@gftunion.com.
GMH BLAMES NURSES FOR THEIR MISTAKE
After weeks of unhealthy levels of nitrous oxide (NO) in GMHs operating room, hospital management finally tested the Air and discovered that NO levels exceeded 100ppm (50ppm is the acceptable max). NO is an anesthetic which is the responsibility of an anesthesiologist...
IMPROVING HEALTHCARE FOR A BETTER LIFE
The United States is the only country with no Universal Healthcare. How many times do you hear families fundraising for medical treatment or see children standing at the traffic light with donation buckets? Our healthcare costs have been rising and there are ways to...
WE NEED AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
When you pick up a copy of the PDN it is almost expected to read failures of our Government System. Lack of funds to feed our students, not enough hospital beds in our emergency room, and the list goes on. What we dont read is the underlying solution to all our...
UNION LEADERS CONFRONTED BY RESISTANCE TO OBAMA
When Mike Pyne and other union foot soldiers knock on doors to promote Senator Barack Obama, they often confront a tricky challenge: how to persuade union members to vote on the basis of their wallets rather than on issues like abortion, gun rights and race. In...
AUSTRALIA: MEDICARE STAFF SHOW THAT THEY CARE
Thousands of Medicare staff have shown that they care about getting a fair deal on pay and conditions by participating in the national week of action. Medicare staff around Australia wore green and gold stickers bearing the message I Care and held morning teas to...
WAL-MART SIGNS PACT WITH UNION IN CHINA
The Shanghai branch of the US retail giant Wal-Mart has signed a breakthrough trade union contract, the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions said yesterday. The group contract was the first among all Wal-Mart outlets on the Chinese mainland and covers 1,000 workers in...
STEELWORKERS IMPROVE WAGES, PENSIONS AND JOB SECURITY IN 4-YEAR CONTRACT WITH U.S. STEEL
A new 4-year labor agreement between the United Steelworkers (USW) and U.S. Steel covering some 16,000 union members at 14 locations has been ratified by the membership in a mail-in secret ballot vote of 10,571 to 2,670, concluded here today at the unions...
FIJI EMPLOYERS FEDERATION CALLS FOR STATE HELP FOR EXPECTANT MOTHER WORKERS
Fijis Employers Federation is calling for the state to help employers pay for expectant mothers in the workplace. The Federation revealed that employers are not keen on hiring young women of child bearing age due to new labour laws on maternity leave. Federation...
A LIVING WAGE IS A CATHOLIC VALUE
The living wage is a concept central to the Catholic Social Teaching tradition beginning with the foundational document, Rerum Novarum, a papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, issued in 1891, to combat the excesses of both laissez-faire capitalism on the one hand and...