Tag: union workers
Thousands picket as historic strike grips Colorado meatpacking giant
With roughly 3,800 union workers walking off the job, the dispute threatens to effect grocery stores and dinner tables across the country.
‘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.
How to protect all workers from extreme heat on the job
It served as another reminder that the threat of heat stress grows each year and of the pressing need to deliver commonsense protections for all workers.
Why union workers are a first line of defense to protect...
Is the Republican plan to move the goalposts on those already paying into Social Security going to force younger Americans to work themselves into the grave?
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Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires
The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land
The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall
More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.