I was struck in the post from last week on strikes in 2023 how many people in comments asserted that a strong economy leads to more strikes. This evidently is taken as almost a given by many economists. The problem with this assertion is that...
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I was one of the people interviewed for this ABC piece on the rise in strikes this year. Greg Iwinski, a late-night TV writer, walked off the job this year.
I was quite surprised when the United Auto Workers leadership came out to demand a ceasefire to Israel's war-crimes in Gaza. This is a long ways from the AFL-CIA days.
One of the most interesting trends in contemporary labor is the rise of undergraduate worker organizing. The resident assistants, she thought in 2021, needed a union. This past March, they voted overwhelmingly to have one. Contract negotiations began Friday, capping a week when residence life...
The Teamsters are pretty well sick of Anheuser-Busch's bullshit: Teamsters working nationwide at Anheuser-Busch have voted by an overwhelming 99 percent to authorize a strike. The resounding vote allows the.
Children are so small and supple, they make the best workers on dangerous jobs. And what's a few dead Guatemalan kids...... The New York Times spoke with more than 100.
This is a good sign if it happens. Federal labor regulators accused Starbucks on Wednesday of illegally closing 23 stores to suppress organizing activity and sought to force the company to reopen them. A complaint issued by a regional office of the National Labor Relations...
Organized labor continues to fight for a reasonable application of AI that doesn't destroy the working class. You are seeing this in bargaining between CWA and ZeniMax, which is a.
On December 10, 1976, undocumented workers in Chicago leather plants voted to unionize, leading to battle for them to have access to U.S. labor rights. Their employer soon had some.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers. PATCO was involved in an illegal strike, no question. And PATCO members were pretty out of touch in some of their demands (the continuation of free flights to Europe was unlikely to build solidarity with...
This is the grave of Rose Schneiderman. Born in 1882 in Sawin, which is today just on the Polish side of the Belarus border, Schneiderman grew up in a sewing.
The Starbucks union campaign has stalled out in the face of openly illegal behavior by the company. So it's really hard to keep it going. But there were strike actions.