On We the People for October 4, 2023 Brad Smith and Jason Houk talk with Bev DeLeonardis of Health Care for All Oregon and Alan Journet with Southern Oregon Climate Action Now about their upcoming panel discussion Beyond Smoke and Fire. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-202310040900
Category: Organizations
Why Walgreens pharmacy workers are walking off the job
New YorkCNN—Retail pharmacists and technicians around the country say they’re overworked, underpaid and fed up. Now some are walking off the job. Pharmacy staff at Walgreens locations across the country called out of work on Monday to protest harsh working conditions, leaving some stores closed or critically understaffed. Organizers told CNN that hundreds of workers […]
Why so many workers are striking in 2023: ‘Strikes can often be contagious,’ says expert
Altogether, roughly 453,000 workers have gone on strike so far in 2023 as employees across industries fight for better wages and working conditions in the wake of the pandemic.In the last few months alone, striking or threatening to strike has led to a string of labor deals where workers have pushed for and won higher […]
UAW workers strike Mack Trucks after rejecting contract
Oct 9 (Reuters) – Union workers at Volvo Group (VOLVb.ST)-owned Mack Trucks went on strike on Monday after overwhelmingly rejecting a proposed five-year contract, the United Auto Workers said, the latest tentative labor agreement to be voted down. About 73% of the unit’s 4,000 workers in Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland voted against the deal that included […]
Oregon sees record-high unionization
Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Lillian Karabaic/OPB In just the past month, strippers, vegan donut makers and thrift shop workers have all won union elections in Oregon.In a year of notable national union activity — from the WGA and SAF-AFTRA strikes shutting down Hollywood to the president joining the UAW picket line in Detroit — […]
AS NATIONWIDE STRIKE WAVE TAKES HOLD, FETTERMAN, ADAMS, CASAR INTRODUCE BILL TO PROVIDE SNAP BENEFITS FOR STRIKING WORKERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman, with Reps. Alma Adams (D-NC) and Greg Casar (D-TX), introduced the Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023, legislation to allow striking workers to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The introduction of this bill comes as several high-profile strikes are currently taking place in […]
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US auto workers halt strike expansion after concessions on EV battery plant
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has said that it will not further expand its strike after winning a major breakthrough, bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the union’s national contract. In a video appearance on Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain said that the decision would change the future of the union and the auto […]
Actors on Picket Lines Express Optimism as SAG-AFTRA Negotiations Progress
It’s been a few years since Bill Adams has worked as an extra. At 85, he doesn’t get called as much as he used to. But for the last three months, he has commuted to the picket lines from his home in Long Beach about once a week. “I’m just tired of the multinational greed,” […]
Screenwriters won a historic victory against AI. The rest of us should follow
The writers won. I know that sounds jarring. It’s more common to hear something like, “the writers are arguing among themselves over some unimaginably trivial point of grammar”. But right now, the writers won. The 148-day-long Writers Guild of America strike is over. Now, the hard part begins. The new WGA contract, which will almost […]