Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/filiberto/page/12/)
Overall I found When Workers Shot Back to be a careful study of the relationship workers and capital and the resulting reconfiguration of the state’s role in our lives. I would recommend the book for anyone interested in learning more about the history and nuances of the working-class struggle.
Strike activity surged in 2018 and 2019, marking a 35-year high for the number of workers involved in a major work stoppage over a two-year period.
Julie Bleyhl has been named Executive Director of AFSCME Council 5
A coalition of environmental justice groups and SEIU 26 representing workers who clean major Twin Cities office buildings released a study that criticizes major Minnesota corporations for policies blocking solutions to climate change and environmental racism.
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members at HealthPartners voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a 7-day Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) strike for 1,800 members by an overwhelming vote of 95% to 5%
According to Workday’s sources, the complaint charges that representatives of the owner and manager of Riverside Tower, Sherman Associates, have harassed, discriminated and retaliated against residents
EPI’s research suggests that since imports from China have soared while exports to China have increased much less, the US is both losing jobs in manufacturing and missing opportunities to add jobs in manufacturing.
On the eve of the Super Bowl LIV in Miami, catering workers serving American Airlines have been on a fast at Miami International Airport to call for an end to poverty wages and unaffordable health care.
In the coming weeks the union contracts will expire for over 8,000 members of SEIU Local 26 in the Twin Cities who clean and protect the buildings housing some of the richest corporations in the world.
They are facing two counts of insurance fraud and one count of theft by swindle in a scheme they used to avoid paying for workers’ compensation insurance required to protect injured workers.