Labor
IATSE is gearing up for a possible strike
September 14, 2021Any such strike will have a major impact on the economy in CA and nationwide. It remains to be seen how this industry will react to the unions’ willingness to stand together.
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Striking cookie workers refuse to crumble
September 14, 2021Seven days a week, 16 hours a day: “They’d rather work us to death than pay the benefits for more employees,” says April Flowers-Lewis.
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Musicians’ defeat of Trump’s leafletting curbs shows importance of appeals courts
September 13, 2021The D.C. Court of Appeals has become important in the struggle of workers to reverse the anti-labor rulings of the last administration.
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Immigrant Sept. 11 cleanup crews look to residency as a reward
September 10, 2021“We need to be remembered. We were all immigrants who contributed to the U.S. We worked hard there, paid taxes, grew old there."
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Worker center leaders float ideas for ‘a just economy’
September 9, 2021Rebuilding the economy will include going outside structures of traditional unionism.
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