I am at a conference and so don't really have time to blog at all, but I do feel the need to at least mention that the UAW has come to a deal with Ford and it looks pretty good. The details are definitely not...
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.
Peter Kilgallen, a registered nurse at Kaiser, center, yells as he and other nurses and supporters protest outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. As many as 18,000 nurses are participating in a statewide two-day strike to call attention...
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.
A union getting a strike approval vote is not generally that significant. It is something that happens all the time. But the UAW is cranky and I think a strike is really quite likely here. United Auto Workers members overwhelmingly granted union leaders authorization to...
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.
I talked to Marketwatch for this story on the current strike wave. Historically, prices don’t come back down after they’ve gone up, she added, so many companies are bringing in more money. But wages aren’t necessarily keeping up. “You see this at company after company,”...
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,.