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“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.
Last Friday, cleaners with SEIU Local 26 rallied in Minneapolis during one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Workers called on Delta to take urgent and necessary steps to ensure that workers who cater its flights are able to escape poverty and access healthcare.
“As egregious and deeply saddening as it is to experience harassment from library patrons that I’m trying to assist, I’ve been more astounded time and again by Hennepin County’s lack of foresight in anticipating and responding to this harassment.”
Teachers of Little Rock, Arkansas are on strike Thursday over the state’s decision to strip their collective bargaining rights and curtail local control of the school district. It is the teachers’ first strike since 1987, and only their second strike ever.
Ignited by the hideously common experience of workplace sexual harassment, the strike was a powerful display of working-class force in an industry where women and people of color make up the overwhelming majority of non-managerial workers.
Members of SEIU 73 ratified their contract this week, and CTU members will now have 10 days to do so. But the impact of the two-week walkout is likely to extend far beyond the contracts themselves.
About 220 members USW Local 63B are on strike over Carley Foundry’s unfair labor practices. The strike began on Saturday morning.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 485,000 U.S. workers were involved in strikes and lockouts during 2018. That’s the highest number since 1986.