California Hospital Workers Strike, Fracturing Pandemic’s Uneasy Labor Peace
More than 700 employees of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a regional trauma center in California’s Sonoma County, held a five-day strike that concluded on Friday.
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Staff at Jewish Community Action Have Formed a Union
“I remember one of the big takeaways for me was that rhetorically people who oppose unions will pretend that a union is an outside force, but the union is just a name for the commitment that you already have to your coworkers.”
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St. Paul Nursing Home Workers Want Respect for Their Essential Work, and They’re on Strike to Get it
On a day when working people in over 25 cities across the U.S. joined a union-backed Strike for Black Lives, nursing home workers at Cerenity Humboldt Care Center in St. Paul staged a 24-hour strike, demanding a contract that reflects their essential work.
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Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade
“If Donald Trump and Betsy Devos actually listened to what we were saying—we were trying to reopen schools so we could meet the needs of kids,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. “Instead, they decide to be all reckless.”
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Flight Attendants Tell Airlines: Don’t Even Think About Concessions
The COVID-19 crisis hit airline workers with speed and devastation. Passenger flow through TSA checkpoints fell 97 percent in March compared to a year earlier. In the months since, travel demand has only barely recovered, to 20 percent of a year ago.
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Organizing Against Police Unions Has Invigorated Hollywood’s Labor Movement, Members Say
The labor movement is split on the question of cops. While union officials have signaled their tempered support for police unions, the push to expel law enforcement from the movement has grown quickly in the rank-and-file.
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Tattersall Workers are Trying to Form a Union
Earlier today Tattersall workers made public their intention to form a union.
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West Coast Dockers Stop Work to Honor George Floyd
At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, ports across the U.S. West Coast ground to a halt as longshore workers stopped work to mourn the death of George Floyd.
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While Minneapolis Burned, Immigrant Detainees in Sherburne County Jail Started a Hunger Strike
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM) announced that immigrant detainees had begun a hunger strike at the Sherburne County jail in Elk River, Minnesota.
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Organizing for a New Restaurant Industry
“We can’t go back to normal, because normal wasn’t working,” said Hornstein. “The fact that we are also fighting for broader change in the industry. We know this isn’t just about our restaurants, but about workers across the industry, in the Twin Cities and the country.”