…company just reported a net income of $38.4 million for the third quarter — its best haul, by far, since the start of the Covid pandemic. BlackRock, Inc. — the…
…high copayments and such a narrow network of doctors and hospitals that “you have to do a big exhaustive search to find anybody that accepts it.” The workers also want…
…The 3.5 trillion Reconciliation Bill, part of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better program, significantly expands the social safety net, while reportedly creating two million jobs annually. All of these jobs…
…weeks’ worth of benefits. The extended benefits, SEIU Local 32BJ President Kyle Bragg said, are important because “the pandemic also laid bare the critical importance of a robust safety net…
…UMWA District 20 vice president Larry Spencer told the rally. “Give us a fair contract and we’ll go away. We’ll go back to work in these coal mines where we…
…essential workers are devalued and unprotected,” he said. Fellow COSH networkers leaders Erica Perry and Aaron Green meanwhile, observed, that the “government and corporate response to COVID-19 and treatment of…
WORCESTER, Mass.—Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital have been on strike for more than four months in a battle over safe staffing with Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest and…
…public-health crisis in a century, 41 million layoffs and a net loss of 9 million jobs, and the country being carried through the COVID-19 pandemic largely by workers. “In 2020…
…year before. In transportation, where crews on trains and ships have been slashed, the results have been calamitous for people and the planet. Consider the runway oil train that was…
…in late February, Local 881 reported.) Amazon might be the most egregious example. Founder Jeff Bezos’s net worth, estimated at $178 billion by Forbes magazine as of March 4, has…
