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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.