UPS Deal With Drivers Raises Bar For Work Demands
From today’s Axios: UPS workers are celebrating the deal their union reached with the company on Tuesday as the biggest win in a generation. Why it matters: The tentative five-year…
Kaiser Health Care Workers Plan 3 Day Protest Across California
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center in Grantville is among more than 40 facilities statewide that will be picketed this week in a worker demonstration billed…
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…
SoCal Hotel Workers Strike Again As ‘Hot Labor Summer’ Grows
From today’s KTLA News: Writers and actors aren’t the only ones on strike in Los Angeles. On Thursday morning, thousands of hotel workers in Southern California walked out on strike…
Why Celebrities Are Striking: Average Pay For Actors May Surprise You
From today’s CNN News: On Friday, the SAG-AFTRA, a union representing about 160,000 Hollywood actors, officially went on strike after failing to reach a deal with Hollywood’s biggest studios. That…
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…