Potential UPS Strike: Where Talks Stand And What To Expect
From today’s NBC News: Negotiators for UPS and the Teamsters union representing some 340,000 workers at the nation’s largest package carrier are going back to the table on Tuesday, seeking…
South Carolina Longshoremen Union Rallies For Workers’ Rights
From today’s The Post and Courier: Omari Lincoln became a longshoreman, loading and unloading cargo along the Charleston waterfront, after watching his father and his grandfather before him do the…
SoCal Hotel Workers Authorize Strike If Deal Is Not Reached For Pay And Benefits
From today’s CNN News: The largest hospitality union in Southern California has approved a strike for more than 15,000 workers that could begin in early July if an agreement isn’t…
Trader Joe’s Violated Worker Rights At Store That Unionized
From today’s HuffPost: Trader Joe’s may have run afoul of the law at a store in Minnesota where workers unionized last year. The grocery chain’s management illegally removed union literature…
These Companies Are Taking a Harder Line on Union Organizers
From today’s New York Times: After working for more than seven years at an Apple store in Kansas City, Mo., Gemma Wyatt ran into trouble. Last year, she said, managers…
Cal State Undergraduate Workers Seek Union Representation
From today’s CalMatters: California State University is the largest public university system in the country, so when sophomore Delilah Mays-Triplett decided working on the San Diego State University campus as…
Starbucks Tarnishes Its Progressive Brand by Denying Workers’ Rights
From today’s Newsweek: Starbucks has long claimed to be a “different kind of company”—one that cares about the health, safety, and well being of its workers nationwide. It doesn’t even…
LAUSD Closed for Third Day as Workers Set to End Strike
From today’s CNN News: Classrooms in the Los Angeles area were closed for a third day Thursday as school workers capped off a massive strike demanding increased wages and better…
Can the United Farm Workers Rise Again?
From today’s New York Times: Veronica Mota marched under the sweltering sun, hoisting a cloth banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe above her head for miles. “Sí, se puede,” she…
How a YouTube Strike Could Set a Big Precedent For Workers’ Rights
From today’s Times: Several teams of subcontracted YouTube workers went on strike on Friday, to protest a return-to-office policy that they say is an attempt by YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet,…