The joint venture Hyundai and LG Energy plant, currently under construction in Georgia and employing Korean immigrant workers, had a notoriously bad safety record. Two workers, including one Korean, were killed in preventable accidents a few months ago. The company and its subcontractors get away with these conditions because immigrant workers are in a fragile […]
For some videos on recent labor actions, see the AFL-CIO website by clicking the link below. AFL-CIO, 8/27
Nine hundred nurses at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Magee-Women’s Hospital have voted to unionize after several years of efforts, it as announced this week. The vote for the union was 402-305 and represents a breakthrough in the struggle to unionize one of Pennsylvania’s largest employers. “My coworkers and I are absolutely overjoyed to […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights, according to a union that called the effort illegal. HHS officials confirmed Aug 23 that the department is ending its recognition of unions for a number of employees, and is reclaiming office […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom July 30 signed a law authorizing the State Labor Commissioner to investigate and issue a citation or file a civil action against any employer found guilty of withholding or taking their workers’ tips. Up until now, employees were only able to pursue lengthy civil court actions to recuperate stolen gratuities even though the […]
A federal appeals court Aug. 1 lifted a judge’s order blocking President Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with U.S. agencies. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold pending a further appeal an injunction issued by […]
In the St. Louis area, 3,200 Boeing fighter jet workers, members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), are out on strike after voting down a union contract that would have included a 20% raise over 4 years. Last fall, Boeing ended a 53-day strike in Washington State by offering workers a 38% wage increase […]
Resident physicians are doctors who have graduated from medical school and are now on hospital staffs. They are akin to apprentices before becoming fully licensed. In many hospitals and emergency rooms they are the ones who deal with patients on a daily basis. They work very long hours under often stressful conditions. Their pay is […]
On July 9, Payday Report described a strike of garbage workers employed by the private contractor, Republic Services,that had spread to Illinois, Georgia, Washington State, and Massachusetts. Now, the strike has spread to Atlanta as well as to Southern California in Orange County and the suburbs of San Diego. “Republic abuses and underpays workers across the country,” Sean M. O’Brien, […]
Multiple labor unions and states are challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. NIOSH is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that funds and develops research to support workplace safety regulations, including studies aimed to reduce cancer risk in firefighters and treat […]
