Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/organizing/page/12/)
Alarmed by the news Fairview Health is considering drastic cuts to two St. Paul hospitals, health care workers, patients and community members have quickly organized a campaign to keep Bethesda and St. Joseph’s open, with unions leading the way.
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.
They may work different jobs or carry different union cards, but workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are fighting together to raise MSP’s minimum wage to $15.
“We’re just hoping to get equality,” said Tom Allen, who has been a mechanic for two years and was working the picket at the St. Louis County garage on Jean Duluth Road. “We’re looking to be long-term employees and we do a good job. We’re out here working for equal pay and equal rights.”
Workers at Amazon’s DSM1 warehouse in Sacramento celebrated Christmas in their own fashion—by walking out. It was the latest move in their campaign for paid time off.
Workers at Amazon MSP1 in Shakopee, Minn are celebrating, as management conceded to workers’ demands and are implementing a safety committee with worker leadership.
The strike at Fort Wayne’s UNFI . distribution center had escalated to include pickets in Hopkins, Minnesota, and Green Bay, Wisconsin. The escalation proved to be effective. Talks are scheduled to resume Thursday.
Henrietta Ofori has been a long time nursing assistant at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. Her job is difficult, and she says that “We work so hard. When you go home, you’re so tired, you’re exhausted. You have to work overtime to make ends meet.”
“We just wanted to make our campus presence known to let them know that people are paying attention and care about what’s happening and are not satisfied with the explanations that we’ve received.”
Teachers and public workers in an Argentinian province have been striking, blockading roads, marching by the thousands, occupying buildings, and even attacking and burning the provincial parliament building, in a fight to defend their contracts and their bargained wage increase.