Tag: strike
Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios—and the research backs...
What are the key concerns in the nursing contract negotiations at Magee?
NYC nurses’ strike enters 10th day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders...
Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections against violence.
What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.
‘This is a union town’: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders join...
Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.
What would a general strike in the US actually look like?
As calls for a general strike in the U.S. are growing, it's important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world.
Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand...
Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.
Amazon workers threaten nationwide strike during Peak holiday season over pay,...
As Amazon faces record holiday sales, workers across the U.S. escalate strike threats to force the company to negotiate union contracts and improve working conditions.
Record-breaking 459,000 workers strike in 2023: US labor movement hits 23-year...
the nation saw 33 major work stoppages initiated last year, the highest count since the year 2000, which recorded 39 stoppages.
Starbucks workers across 14 states launch historic unionization bid in a...
"It's important that we're recognized as people rather than profit machines."
Actors embrace tentative deal with studios, curtains rise on Hollywood’s longest...
This agreement, coupled with a recent deal among writers, has brought a close to the industry's strike actions that had previously brought production to a near standstill.
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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.
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.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.