…strike Nov. 3, after more than two-and-a-half years of contract negotiations. The union’s four main demands are getting paid a living wage; stronger protections against sexual harassment, discrimination, and power-based…
…to five years ago, in a successful attempt to bail out the then bankrupt coal mine. But the execs at Warrior Met Coal refuse to give up a cent. 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…
…dollar coffers. Making Out Like Bandits The rich are making out like bandits during the pandemic. Is it any wonder that working men and women who were expected to imperil…
…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…
…and agitation produced both the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act of 1935, guaranteeing American workers the right to collective bargaining and a social safety net in…
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…
…Many companies cut CEO’s base salaries, but that was largely for show, said Shuler: Stock-based compensation increased by an average of $1 million, and other executives got “retention bonuses.” In…
…gig workers, who as “independent contractors” are part of a precarious workforce that lacks the basic safety net of healthcare or access to workers compensation in the event they are…
