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More unions are stepping up to join the anti-racist fight in the Unites States, as the disproportionate impact of coronavirus hits oppressed communities. They are a high percentage of essential workers in the hospital, medical support, retail and food service industries.
Tens of thousands of (...)
Criticizing labor is hard for socialists. On the one hand we know the unions are the underdog in the class struggle, and it’s painfully apparent that our society has suffered because unions are so weak. At the same time, it’s clear most unions can’t or won’t live up to their social and political (...)
The working class in the United States faces tremendous difficulties, but there are some hopeful signs of movement in workplaces and unions, in communities, and on the left. As this article was being edited, the national uprising against the police murder of George Floyd spread across the (...)
Al, today we’ll be discussing worker challenges to their employers during the COVID epidemic – about health and safety and pay, and also of worker challenges to what the corporations like to call management prerogatives. In winning the right to collective bargaining, trade unions in the U.S. (...)
Stores’ risk scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee turnover, and “tipline” calls.
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing, according to five people with knowledge of the effort and internal documents (...)
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A fired Amazon employee activist called for the company’s tech workers to go on a one-day virtual walkout during a controversial online meeting with warehouse workers Thursday.
“Do you think this is right? Are you OK with the firings (...)
Late Monday morning, 30th of March, workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse (Staten Island, New York, USA) stopped work after at least one employee has been tested positive for Covid 19, according to a statement from the group’s management. Employees told the management that they were aware that (...)
More unions are demanding that all non-essential workplaces be shut down, to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
On a Labor Notes webinar March 30, essential workers pleaded with everyone else to please stay home. https://labornotes.org/2020/03/video-dont-die-wall-street-essential-workers-why-every
Labor Notes has organised several Zoom meetings with labor leaders and organizers to talk about what we can do to organize during this pandemic. These are the beginning steps we came up with: Ask individuals and organizations to sign on to the principles and demands below, notifying Labor Notes when you do so and using these as organizing tools. Labor Notes will publicize the demands and the endorsers. Agree to support local and regional actions as workers assert these and other demands. (...)
“Taking action cost me my job,” said Chris Smalls. “Because I tried to stand up for something that’s right, the company decided to retaliate against me.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James late Monday 30 condemned as “immoral and inhumane” Amazon’s firing of a Staten Island fulfillment (...)
The coronavirus pandemic poses serious risks to those workers still on the job, and all too often, management is acting slowly and doing far too little to protect essential employees like grocery workers, https://labornotes.org/blogs/2020/03/danger-were-facing-grocery-worker-speaks-out UPS (...)
“One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.”
Labor rights advocates on Monday 30 urged the public to show support and solidarity with Amazon employees who walked off the job at a Staten Island warehouse following what the workers said was an (...)
The United States now leads the world in confirmed coronavirus cases and New York City is the epicenter of the outbreak with over 30,000 confirmed cases.
Health care workers in New York City say the hospitals feel like a war zone. (...)
UPDATE, March 29: Judy writes: “It’s SO MUCH WORSE NOW. Nostalgia for the day I described.” -Ed.
Last Sunday I worked in the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division Emergency Department and I want to share with you the real-life story—and most certainly not the worst story.
To back up... I had (...)
Detroit bus drivers collectively declared Tuesday morning that they weren’t going to work without safety precautions. Bus service was canceled throughout the city because of “the driver shortage,” as city officials put it.
The drivers’ union backed them up and their brief work stoppage, less than (...)
Employers, like the government, have been slow to respond to the crisis. Amazon initially limited its response to its tech offices, including in Seattle, where two workers tested positive for COVID-19. Office workers were told to work from home through March, and the company stopped employees’ (...)
Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so.
Employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted on Tuesday February 18 to unionize, the first well-known technology company to take the step toward being (...)
Kim Moody, Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870–1900. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019.
Kim Moody has written another very interesting and provocative book on labor. His other books have generally been about contemporary labor (...)
In a moment of profound political and economic and planetary crisis, the socialist movement in the United States faces opportunities and dangers of enormous proportions. Owing more to the depth of the failures of capitalism than to the demonstrated strength of the socialist movement (thus far), (...)
Except for the oldest strikers I met on the picket line during the UAW-General Motors negotiations, autoworkers did not remember a time when, if you passed a 90-day probationary period, you earned full pay and benefits. Back then, temporary workers were only hired during the summer months in (...)
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