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Los Angeles Schools and 30,000 Workers Reach Tentative Deal After Strike

Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents support workers in the school district, sought a 30 percent pay increase and said that many of its employees made little more than the minimum wage and struggled to afford the cost of living in Southern California.

Per CNN, March 14, 2023. CPI measured 6% for the year ended in February, down from January’s 6.4% and in line with economists’ expectations. Shelter prices were the largest contributor to the monthly increase, accounting for 70% of February’s gain, according to the BLS. Shelter prices were up 0.8% for the month and 8.1% year over year.

Inflation surged in January by the most in three months, according to the latest Consumer Price Index released Tuesday. But despite the monthly increase of 0.5%, inflation continued to slow on a year-over-year basis to 6.4%. (This does NOT mean prices are coming down, they are only GOING UP AT A SLOWER RATE.)

The Hastings School District is pushing the food service staff to take wages below inflation and seek to weaken their health insurance. Instead of rewarding the understaffed and overworked employees who have proudly served Hastings students for years, the district seeks to divide neighbors by dishing out more significant raises for new employees and handing out small bonuses.

Encore will be holding A/V Training Classes at their Brooklyn Park Warehouse, starting in March of 2023. Please contact Kellie Larson in Education for more information.

IATSE Local 13 is looking for persons interested in joining the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) committee. The following download is information provided by the International, as a starting point to begin discussion. Please take a look.

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1 Race Inequality and Conscious Inclusion Resource Packet[1][2].pdf

Annual Inflation Slowing to 'Only' 6.5%, and We Continue to Fall Behind

Inflation continues to outpace any wage increases we have bargained for. The following article details year over year inflation, from December to December.

Free Tax Preparation Services

The St. Paul Labor Federation recommends Prepare and Prosper, a local non-profit, for free tax preparation services.

Call Steward Trainees Sought

We are looking to train new call stews for the office, If you are interested, please submit a resume and cover letter to the email address below. DO NOT contact the call stewards about it. Resumes and cover letters submitted to the email will be the ONLY candidates considered. After the applicants are reviewed, we will be contacting candidates and conducting interviews.

Congratulations to the Minnesota Nurses Association on ratifying a three-year contract giving them 18% pay increases and better working conditions in the Twin Cities. This will help them try to keep up with current inflation and should that continue at it's current high rate, give them the opportunity to negotiate again in three years.

Americans keep waiting for inflation to return to normal levels. But that wait has taken longer than expected, and it could be among the reasons wages have fallen well behind inflation over the past year.

From the Washington Post, October 13, 2022: The Social Security Administration announced on Thursday an 8.7% increase in benefit checks for seniors starting next year, a response to the fastest inflation America has seen in four decades. This is after a 5.9% increase last year.

USA Today - August 5th, 2022. In addition to July's robust payroll gains, average hourly earnings rose 15 cents to $32.27, pushing the annual increase from 5.1% to 5.2%.

July 25, Minnesota's 1.8% unemployment rate in June was the lowest ever recorded by a state over a half-century of recordkeeping. Minnesota has 2.7 open jobs for every one available worker. The state's labor force remains smaller than before the COVID-19 pandemic, and population trends suggest that will not change quickly.

From the Wall Street Journal via MSN, July 13, 2022. The consumer-price index rose 9.1% in the 12 months ended in June, the fastest pace since November 1981, the Labor Department said on Wednesday. The June increase also eclipsed May’s 8.6% rate, which led Federal Reserve officials to shift to a faster pace of benchmark interest-rate increases in its campaign to bring down inflation.

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The IATSE Local 13 Online Store is now available. If you are looking at the website with a full screen computer, you will find the link in the upper left corner, two boxes under the Log In box. On a phone, two boxes under the Log In box. Or click on Read More and then choose the link highlighted in blue.
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Online Store Available

Welcome to the evolving IATSE Local 13 website

Cardholding Members and Referral Workers can create their own Username and Password.
Read More...