Tag: labor union
5 lessons from UPS workers’ successful bargaining
While the union did not win everything it wanted, it secured a majority of its demands in what it called “the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS.”
How union members honor workers Memorial Day
April 28 is Workers Memorial Day in America and the Day of Mourning in Canada, a time to remember those killed, injured, or sickened at work.
School support workers strike closing more than 1,000 LA schools
More than 1,000 schools are closed because of the strike, which impacts 422,000 students.
‘Class war’ erupts at hearing as union leader and GOP senator...
Bernie Sanders declared at the conclusion of Wednesday's hearing that "there's a class war going on whether we want to recognize it or not."
Why workers are up in arms over the rail strike intervention
The rail industry can thank Congress and the president for helping it secure $321 million in annual profits at the expense of workers.
Behind Starbucks union-busting stands CEO who got $940,000,000 richer during pandemic
"Starbucks and its billionaire CEO, Howard Schultz, can well-afford to improve employees' pay and working conditions through unionization."
Leaked video reveals Starbucks CEO urged managers to ramp up union-busting...
"Starbucks is getting desperate as it loses this war in battle after battle," said the baristas' union, "because we—the Starbucks partners—continue to organize and fight for a real voice within the company."
WATCH: Bernie Sanders to rally with Starbucks workers seeking unions
"Starbucks workers should be able to form a union without fear of being fired. End of discussion."
Why young workers are driving a wave of unionization
Increasing numbers of millennials and zoomers in the public sector, tech field, gig economy, nonprofit community, education and other sectors also view collective action as the path to a brighter future.
In a single year, $1.78 trillion was stolen from the working...
And much of the money workers should be getting is instead being pumped up to the top 0.3% of income earners.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.