Alabama
Online program offers free homework help to Alabama students
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – Students in Alabama can face challenges finding someone to help them with their homework. That’s why Alabama Public Library Service offers a free online program called Homework Alabama that offers one-on-one help in subjects that are constantly updated with the latest curriculum.
“We have hundreds of tutors that offer help in over 60 subjects for all different ages,” said Alabama Public Library Service reference librarian Melinda Smith.
Smith said Homework Alabama offers services “ranging from live homework assistance to providing reviews for dropped off work to providing self-study resources,” which are available through a mobile device or computer.
K-12 students can access Homework Alabama from anywhere that has internet access, with no sign-up necessary.
The online program also offers career help for graduate students and adults pursuing careers.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey talks unionization and gambling in Huntsville speech
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Governor Kay Ivey spoke in Huntsville on Monday and maintained her stance against auto workers unionizing.
During her speech, Ivey said, “Alabama is not Michigan, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa are not Detroit.”
A rally is set for Monday night in Montgomery to support Hyundai workers who are attempting to join the United Auto Workers union.
She said these unionization efforts could open Alabama plants up to layoffs and even closures.
Ivey also touched on lawmakers’ failed attempt to legalize gambling. She says she was hoping the issues would be on your ballot this fall, but it just wasnt in the cards.
“Gambling, if it comes up we’ll deal with it again,” Ivey said. “My interest in that bill was to give the people the chance to vote and I’m sorry they didnt get that chance.”
Ivey ended her speech touting her efforts to boost education and broadband access across the state.
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Alabama Mercedes-Benz workers vote to join UAW union this week – Marketplace
Following a big union win at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee last month, United Auto Workers union now faces another major test of its Southern organizing strategy.
Starting Monday, around 5,200 workers at a Mercedes-Benz assembly-and-battery complex near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will begin voting on whether to join the UAW.
Other unions are also trying to make inroads in the region, known for its right-to-work laws and historical resistance to unions.
I was changing planes in Atlanta — on my way to cover the UAW in Alabama — when I started hearing about unions trying to organize more workers in the South from airport wheelchair attendant Ka-Ron Jones, who was hanging out by my gate while I got my scruffy shoes shined.
“The cleaning companies, all the restaurants, Popeyes — we’re trying to make sure everybody gets unionized. Because everybody’s not getting paid what they should be paid,” Jones said.
There are efforts to organize workers at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama.
But the point of the spear is the United Auto Workers’ $40 million campaign to unionize foreign-owned assembly plants across the South, said Harry Katz at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
“A lot’s at stake — whether they can use the momentum from the VW vote to win at Mercedes and then try and organize other transplants,” he said. “But they’re going to face strong resistance by management.”
There’s been plenty of that at Mercedes in Alabama, said Jeremy Kimbrell, a 24-year veteran autoworker and leader of the UAW’s “Vote Yes” campaign.
“Every day, every supervisor has a meeting with their work group and either shows a video or reads off a card and tells the workers why they don’t need a union,” he said.
One such Mercedes-Benz video sounds like this: “During a strike, employees don’t get paid by their employer. And in the state of Alabama, striking employees don’t get unemployment.”
Mercedes-Benz didn’t comment for our story. Anti-union workers I spoke to say their top pay is comparable to UAW workers in the North and that they don’t need representation.
The message that unions aren’t welcome and might drive top employers out resonates with the region’s anti-union, right-to-work politics, per Cornell’s Harry Katz.
“There’s not a strong collectivist culture,” he said. “Workers don’t have experience with unions, family members that have been union members.”
Jeremy Kimbrell, though, does. And that’s one reason he’s been at the forefront of repeated union drives at Mercedes.
“Boils down to being raised by a dad who was in unions,” he said. “I know what the benefit of a union is. And if you’re not sitting down at the table and then agreeing to a binding contract — very doubtful you’re getting your best deal.”
The better deal Kimbrell wants is the lucrative pay and benefits autoworkers recently won at GM, Ford and Stellantis — after strikes and hardball negotiations led by a reinvigorated UAW.
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