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Today, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) endorses Tim Alexander for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District.
Today, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) endorsed Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney for re-election. The RWDSU represents 100,000 workers in a wide range of industries, including retail, grocery, pharmacy, food service, food processing, distribution, cannabis, building services, warehousing, nursing homes, non-profit and car wash workers. And as of last week, the RWDSU now proudly represents New York’s first unionized farm workers.
On September 27, 2021, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) certified Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW as the union to represent twelve agricultural workers employed at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic, New York. This is the first union certification in New York State after the 2019 passage of The Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, which grants agricultural and farm workers the right to collectively bargain. Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW, first filed to represent the vineyard’s field workers on May 28, 2021.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) issued the following statement on Haitian immigrants seeking refuge in the United States…
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