Hotel Workers in Irvine and Anaheim Join Second Round of Strikes
From today’s Voice of OC: Workers at Irvine Hilton, Anaheim Hilton and Sheraton Park in Orange County and hotels in Los Angeles walked off the job at 3 a.m. Tuesday…
Deep Partisanship On Display As Congress Releases Competing Voting Bills
From today’s AP News: Congress in the coming weeks will consider shoring up voting and election laws — efforts that will reflect the vast gulf between Democrats and Republicans on…
Is the Great Resignation Calling It Quits? U.S. Workers Leaving Jobs At Pre-Pandemic Pace
From today’s Yahoo News: U.S. workers may have fled en masse in search of better prospects, flexible work arrangements and higher wages during the COVID-19 pandemic — but the “Great…
Hotel Workers Strike on Holiday Weekend
From today’s New York Times: Inside the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, a towering luxury hotel with a rooftop pool and soaring views of the city, Jason Hernandez said on Monday…
SCOTUS Rules First Amendment Entitles Web Designer To Refuse Same-Sex wedding Work
From today’s NPR News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages…
Unionized Hotel Workers Reach Deal With Largest Hotel Before Strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As Los Angeles braces for the largest U.S. hotel worker strike in recent memory, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in downtown announced it reached…
Time To Boycott Netflix? How Consumers Might Shape The Writer’s Strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As the writers’ strike stampedes through its second month and the possibility of an actors’ strike looms, it’s time to ask: When — and how…
SCOTUS Rejects “Independent State Legislature” Theory In Major Victory for Voting Rights
From today’s CBS News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a controversial theory that would have given state lawmakers unfettered power to set the rules for federal elections in their…
Starbucks Workers Strike Over LGBTQ Pride Decor Removal
From today’s Reuters News Service: Workers at dozens of U.S. Starbucks locations held strikes on Sunday to express their outrage over accusations by the baristas’ union that managers at several…
Death threats, Harassment, and Poisoned Pets: Why 2024 election workers already are scared
From today’s NPR News: The county election worker was crossing the street with a locked bag full of ballots when he saw a Jeep Gladiator pickup truck come around the…