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Railroad corporations want to slash train crews for Wall Street profits
January 5, 2023Rail unions, AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Dept. make case for 2-person freight crews.
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Angry Locomotive Engineers oust union president
December 21, 2022Dennis Pierce, longtime president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, became the symbolic fall guy for many union leaders who’ve lost the support of the rank and file.
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Pilots reach tentative deal with Delta; unions mobilize to organize rest of airline
December 9, 2022Grassroots organizing drive is now on to unionize Delta’s other 45,000 workers. Half of those are flight attendants.
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Short-staffing forces 22,000 Kaiser nurses into two-day strike in California
November 18, 2022The RNs demand more recruitment of nurses to replace those who left during the pandemic.
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Violations of labor law lead to Home Depot Workers Union loss in Philly
November 16, 2022A loss for the independent Home Depot Workers Union at the first store they targeted, in northeast Philadelphia.
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Biggest academic strike ever: Univ. of Calif. system forces 48K workers to walk
November 15, 2022Besides law-breaking, key issues include low pay, lack of job security, no help for married students, and sexual harassment and discrimination which the university system refuses to confront.
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Amazon demands workers work nights or get laid off, prompts walkouts in Minnesota
November 14, 2022E-retail giant demanded 29 workers, many of them migrants from Somalia, either change from day to overnight shifts or lose their jobs.
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Twitter workers sue Elon Musk for breaking federal law as he fires 3,700
November 10, 2022“It’s total chaos, the house melting down,” one San Francisco worker said.
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