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 […]
The settlement of Trump’s lawsuit against CBS has been sharply criticized by the Writers Guild of America East “as a capitulation to Trump threats to “journalists’ ability to do their job reporting on powerful public figures.” They have branded the settlement a brazenly “transparent attempt to curry favors with an administration in the hopes it […]
CONGRESS DROPS PART OF TRUMP TAX BILL THAT HAD ENDED FEDERAL WORKER PROTECTIONS Yielding to pressure, the House and Senate have dropped a piece of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law July 1 that would have stripped new federal workers of traditional job protections. The provision would have forced new federal employees […]
For days, the news has been filled with accounts of the massive “No Kings” demonstrations around the country on Oct. 14. The turnout in some 2,000 cities and small towns all across America involving an estimated five million people, the largest in memory, was a thunderous protest against the policies of President Donald Trump. They […]
Labor unions around the US rallied together June 8 to demand the release of a labor leader arrested and injured during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles. David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California and SEIU United Service Workers West, was serving as a community observer during an ICE raid […]
A faceoff is brewing in the retail grocery industry as union contracts with two giant chains, mainly in the west, expire this year. Seventy thousand workers at the Kroger and Albertson stores, represented by four locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers, are in negotiations with the chains. They are Locals 7, 770, 324, […]
Below are listed some recent lesser-known examples of wins for working people as listed by the AFL-CIO in late May. Northwestern University Food Service Workers Ratify New Contract: After a 12-day strike this year, members of UNITE HERE Local 1 who staff dining facilities at Northwestern University have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement. Cooks, cashiers, dishwashers and […]
