Tag: strike
‘Don’t cross the picket line’: Apple workers organize Christmas Eve walkout
"Demand that Apple upholds its image with your wallet. Don't shop in stores, don't shop online."
10,000 striking John Deere workers demand ‘equitable’ pay & benefits as...
Thousands of workers are on strike at John Deere after the United Auto Workers failed to reach an agreement with the company to improve wages.
Striking teachers are fighting for much more than paychecks
“Students continue to experience pain and trauma in our schools due to lack of resources, over-policing, and continuing threats of school closures.”
Solidarity at the Stop & Shop
The workers of Stop & Shop only took to the picket lines after months of contract negotiations. They are mainly asking for their company not to cut their pensions or have increases their healthcare costs.
Shop stopped: Grocery store strike of 31K workers receives support from...
Stop & Shop will need to make a decision: either invest in people power or continue to lose money.
Denver teachers strike over bonus-based pay system, demanding reliable salary plan...
The Denver teachers walked out Monday following 15 months of negotiations over a controversial bonus-based pay system that educators say leaves them unable to predict their salaries and guarantee financial security.
What LA teachers tell us about rising inequality
We ought to see their struggle as “a strike for democracy – against the plans of a tiny clique of billionaires to unilaterally impose their vision for the world.”
‘Historic day for American unions:’ Los Angeles teachers strike earns victory...
"This fight was won with union power AND community power."
‘This was about the survival of public education:’ LA teachers claim...
Included in the agreement are pay increases for teachers, additional support staff in schools, smaller class sizes and the regulation of charter schools.
A blue state teacher rebellion: Denver teachers vote to strike as...
Denver teachers overwhelmingly agreed to strike for higher pay, for the profession and for the students for the first time in 25 years.
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Trump fights court order to fully fund SNAP for 42 million Americans
A federal judge ordered the administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits for 42 million people as the Justice Department appealed, while analysis shows the partial-payment plan would cut average aid by 61 percent and leave millions with nothing.
Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown
Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Trump is running for a third term. SCOTUS will let him. Democrats have to...
How far the Democrats ultimately go in providing justice and accountability depends entirely on how much the American people push them.
The truth about kratom and its safety problems
"Depending on the amount of active ingredient in the product…taking kratom can be harmful," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people not to use kratom because of possible harm it can cause.
Only the ugliest American alone pulverizes domestic and overseas stability, the rarest of doomed...
As long as politics remains tawdry, brain-numbing entertainment, infected by hateful racist bugs, today’s already darkened age will grow darker before en-light-enment may return.