RWDSU Local 110 is continuing to strengthen worker power across Iowa through expanded steward education, leadership development, and joint labor-management training programs designed to build stronger workplaces and stronger unions.

More than 100 RWDSU members from across the Midwest region and the Tennessee District Council and more gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 3–4 for the annual RWDSU 6-State Conference. The two-day event focused on strengthening our union through education, organizing, and solidarity and has now gone far beyond 6-states bringing a wide span of training and solidarity across the RWDSU.

On September 9–10, RWDSU members at TreeHouse Foods in Farmers Branch, Texas took an important step forward by exercising language in their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The TreeHouse CBA includes a provision requiring training for stewards and supervisors, conducted by the Federal Mediation Conciliation Services (FMCS), with the company covering costs and lost wages. But in practice, this clause has not recently been regularly utilized. This year, the RWDSU Tennessee District Council made sure that changed. With FMCS unable to provide the training under the current administration, the National Mediation Conciliation Services (NMCS) stepped in.

At the iconic Bloomingdale’s flagship store on 59th Street in New York City, union pride starts on day one. Thanks to RWDSU Local 3 United Storeworkers’ strong union contract, every new hire receives a personal introduction to their union rights, protections, and the power of collective action the moment they begin their journey on the job.