Striking working won backing from every corner of their community, from local rabbis preparing for Passoverr to placard-carrying toddlers.
Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.
Right now, the labor movement has huge opportunities around Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and more. Working successfully with young people like me will be key not only to the success or failure of these campaigns, but the success or failure of the labor movement itself.
Communication Workers of America (CWA) members held an action in downtown Minneapolis on April 15 to mark a full year of AT&T employees working under an expired contract. The significance of Tax Day brings attention to the $20 billion in tax break that the U.S. based telecom giant received last year under the Trump administration’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (signed in December 2017).
Escalation comes as management refuses to address safe staffing levels, pay and benefits needed to recruit and retain quality staff in Stillwater
"Our message to the public is quite simple. 'The United States Postal Service—Keep it. It's yours!'"
On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed for an election to represent all 1,709 of the plant’s hourly employees, requesting that the election be held on April 29 and 30.
It's a struggle when I'm trying to get funds together in order to get food," says Martin. "It's not enough to provide for a family of five. It's hard. It's very hard."
Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South