strikes
The United Auto Workers have shown zero signs of breaking in their strike that now has reached over a month. UAW president Shawn Fein sees the companies continuing to concede.
Another big piece of recent labor news is that the largest health care strike in the history of the United States just went on, albeit it was only for three.
Our friend Michael Hiltzik has an excellent column on the ways that the media frames strikes in ways that prove to be employer propaganda. For another, the framing in the.
It does not look like the Hollywood strikes are ending anytime soon. There is real animosity here. The one thing the workers have on their side is the California political.
One of the top legislative goals for labor intellectuals and radicals (more so than I think for actual labor leaders) has been to get strikers eligible for unemployment benefits. This.
Stephen Greenhouse considers the supposed "Hot Labor Summer" (ok, it's an effective hashtag even if I roll my eyes a bit) and what it means. Corporations are not happy about.
A few thoughts on the SAG-AFTRA strike. First, it is clear that the companies were caught completely off guard here. They had every intention of starving the writers into submission..
Striking hotel workers rally outside the Intercontinental Hotel after walking off their job early Sunday, July 2, 2023, in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) This hasn't gotten enough news,.