Union Plus, which offers Capitol One credit card options to union members – including OPEIU members – has relayed information to us about the Capitol One data security incident. According to Capitol One’s overview site, no credit card account numbers or log-on credentials were stolen. The data breached was credit card application data. Union Plus recommends the resources below for information about the breach and its impact on customers.

Impacted Union Plus cardholders will receive information directly from Capital One. Customers also are encouraged to call the customer service number on the back of their Union Plus card if they need any additional assistance. We will keep you posted as we learn new information from Union Plus.\

Overview of the situation
https://www.capitalone.com/facts2019/

FAQs
https://www.capitalone.com/facts2019/2/

Did you know that AT&T waives select activation and upgrade fees for union members enrolled in the AT&T Signature Program?

That means that when you buy a new phone on AT&T, you can save on the costs associated with upgrading and activating a new device – which means more savings back in your pocket.

Learn more: https://unionplus.deals/15bd1

The members, staff and elected leaders of OPEIU mourn the loss of our beloved brother in the fight for justice, Charlie Ponti, who passed away last Friday, June 28, at the age of 106.

For 77 years, Brother Ponti served OPEIU as a union organizer, business representative and, later, as president of the Local 153 Retirees Association. As the longest-serving member of OPEIU, and as an integral part of our union for the better part of a century, OPEIU is committed to ensuring his legacy – and his lifelong commitment to organizing the unorganized – is remembered for generations to come.

Thinking about going to dinner and a movie? Save up to 37% off movie tickets with Union Plus Movie Discounts.

Discounts can be used at national chains including AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Cinemark Theatres, and more!

Verizon workers are on strike to prevent the telecommunications giant from using its massive profits – earned on the backs of its employees and enlarged even further thanks to the 2017 corporate tax cut – to outsource good-paying jobs overseas.

Sign the petition below to show your solidarity with striking Verizon workers, and to signal to Verizon executives that working people are united in opposition to their offshoring.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-striking-verizon-workers-2?source=direct_link&

Las Vegas, Nevada (June 11, 2019) – Delegates to the Office and Professional Employees International Union’s 28^thConvention have re-elected Richard Lanigan as president for a four-year term. Also re-elected to her fourth term was Secretary-Treasurer Mary Mahoney.

Since becoming president, Lanigan, who also serves as business manager of OPEIU Local 153 in New York and is a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, has implemented an innovative union model that focuses on building local union power to organize a new generation of working people. He also has found new ways to improve the lives of OPEIU members, including the development of an OPEIU 401(k) program and national health plan.