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The Labor Guild School of Labor-Management Relations Fall Term begins Monday, September 9th

For over five generations, The Labor Guild School of Labor-Management Relations has been providing members of the labor movement with relevant, top-notch, and practitioner-led education.  Courses range in content, providing knowledge and skills for building just, ethical workplaces in Massachusetts and beyond.  Instructors are experts in a wide range of fields, coming from the ranks of labor lawyers, union officers, arbitrators, and more.

This term all classes will be held online via Zoom. Classes begin Monday, September 9th, and run through Wednesday, October 9th.

Each class meets on the same day of the week for five weeks.  

For more information, a list of course offerings, and to register, please CLICK HERE.

Classes are $75/class. IBEW Local 2222 will reimburse our members upon successful completion.

IBEW 2222 Supports those who support us! Our strong pro-union endorsed candidates will have our backs – let’s have theirs!

Check back frequently for more opportunities to support our endorsed candidates in the General Election.

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Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Paul Feeney for State Senate

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Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Dylan Fernandes for State Senate

• Weekly canvass on Saturdays at 1 pm meeting at our Plymouth office (36 Cordage Park Suite 312)
• Weekly canvass on Sundays at 10:30 am meeting at the Pembroke Community Center (128 Center St)
• Virtual phone bank on Hubdialer on Thursday evenings starting around 6 pm

 Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Joe Pacheco for State Senate

• Standout – Saturday, November 2nd – Taunton Green, 9:00 – 10:30 am

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Michelle Badger for State Rep

• Make phone calls
• Texting — Join the team!
• Stand out — Join the team!

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Richard Wells for State Rep

• Standout – Friday, November 1st – Stetson Hall, 6 South Main St, Randolph, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
• Standout – Saturday, November 2nd – East Milton Square, Milton, 10 – 11 am
• Standout – Monday, November 4th – Intersection of Adams St/Squantum St, Milton, 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Kevin Kalkut for State Rep

• Canvassing (door-knocking): We have group events scheduled every weekend (Sign-Up Here)
• Phone banking (Coming Soon): We will update the schedule (Here) 
• Standouts (Sign-holding): Two events (10/26 + 11/2) (Sign-Up Here)
• Election Day (Sign-holding): Norfolk, Wrentham, Plainville, Medfield, Millis, Walpole (Sign-Up Here)

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Kostas Loukos for State Rep

Click HERE to register for this week’s volunteer opportunities

• Standout – Saturday, November 2nd – Liberty Square (West Main St & Mansfield Ave, Norton) across from Post Office, 9 AM-12 PM
• Standout – Monday, November 4th – Foxborough Common, 5 PM – 6:30 PM

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities – Walter Timilty for Clerk of Courts

• Weekly Standouts on Thursday, 3:00-5:00 pm at Braintree 5 Corners

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FLYER BadgerFernandes Labor Walk

Housing Families is working to end family homelessness by providing safe, temporary shelter and quality affordable housing, so families can remain together. 

Each summer we take up a collection to help send children in their program to Canobie Lake Park for a day.

We are asking all members for a donation to the IBEW 2222 Benevolent Fund, via Venmo or PayPal below, or cash to your steward, to provide these kids with a day they won’t soon forget!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!

Project 2025 will be put into action if Donald Trump is elected President, and will be devastating to American workers. Project 2025 includes an all-out attack on unions and the labor movement. Don’t take our word for it – read it directly from their playbook. 

Project 2025 – Intermediate Tax Reform (page 696)

The Treasury should work with Congress to simplify the tax code by enacting a simple two-rate individual tax system of 15 percent and 30 percent that eliminates most deductions, credits and exclusions. The 30 percent bracket should begin at or near the Social Security wage base to ensure the combined income and payroll tax structure acts as a nearly flat tax on wage income beyond the standard deduction. The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent. The corporate income tax is the most damaging tax in the U.S. tax system, and its primary economic burden falls on workers because capital is more mobile than labor. Capital gains and qualified dividends should be taxed at 15 percent. Thus, the combined corporate income tax combined with the capital gains or qualified dividends tax rate would be roughly equal to the top individual income tax rate. The system should allow immediate expensing for capital expenditures and index capital gains taxes for inflation.

Project 2025 Proposal

Currently, there are seven tax brackets, 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%, with each based on income thresholds. For instance, a married couple pays 10% in federal income tax on their first $23,200 of income, and then 12% on earnings from $23,201 to $94,300, and so on. Married couples need to earn over $487,450 this year to hit the top tax rate of 37%.

If enacted, Project 2025 would reduce the above to two tax brackets, 15%, and 30%.

What This Means for Working Americans

Project 2025 argues that the current tax system is too complicated and expensive for taxpayers to navigate. To remedy those problems, it proposes just two tax rates: a 15% flat tax for people earning up to about $168,000, and a 30% income tax for people earning above that. It also proposes eliminating “most deductions, credits and exclusions.”

It is estimated that a middle-class family with two children and an annual income of $100,000 would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax if they faced a 15% flat tax on their income due to the loss of the 10% and 12% tax brackets. If the Child Tax Credit were also eliminated, they would pay an additional $6,600 compared with today’s tax system.

By comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut.

Elections matter – Educate yourself before you vote. Your livelihood depends on it.

Project 2025 – Overtime Pay Threshold (page 592) 

Overtime pay is one of the most challenging aspects of the Fair Labor Standards Act rules. “Nonexempt workers” (e.g., workers whose job duties fall within the law’s power or whose total pay is low enough) must be paid overtime (150 percent of the “regular rate”) for every hour over 40 in a workweek. Overtime requirements may discourage employers from offering certain fringe benefits such as reimbursement for education, childcare, or even free meals because the benefits’ value may be included in the “regular rate” that must be paid at 150 percent for all overtime hours. And because some of these fringe benefits may be more valuable (and often come with tax preferences that benefit the worker), the goal should be to set a threshold to ensure lower-income workers have the protections of overtime pay without discouraging employers from offering these benefits.

Project 2025 Proposal

Congress should provide flexibility to employers and employees to calculate the overtime period over a longer number of weeks. Specifically, employers and employees should be able to set a two or four week period over which to calculate overtime. This would give workers greater flexibility to work more hours in one week and fewer hours in the next and would not require the employer to pay them more for that same total number of hours of work during the entire period.

What This Means for Working Americans

Overtime would no longer be paid after 40 hours worked. Instead, it would be paid after 80 hours (two weeks), or 160 hours (four weeks). Employers could require you to work more than 40 hours per week at the beginning of the month, and far fewer at the end of the month, all for straight-time pay, as long as the total hours worked equal 160 hrs. 

Elections matter – Educate yourself before you vote. Your livelihood depends on it.