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Chicago teachers reach tentative agreement but one key thing is missing to...
The Chicago Teachers Union reported a tentative agreement with schools management Wednesday night, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot is holding up the end of the strike in a disagreement over make-up...
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Major campaign to organize tech and video game industries launches, this week...
There are increasing signs that workers in the tech industry are starting to see themselves as … workers. Maybe it’s the 100-hour workweeks as video game companies get products ready for launch, or...
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2018 and 2019 hit a 35-year high for major strikes, this week in the war on...
Large work stoppages, aka large strikes, had been on the decline for years. That turned around in 2018—going from 25,300 workers involved in major strikes in 2017 to 485,200 in 2018—and stayed...
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“This Strike Is a Fight for Our Lives”: Healthcare Workers Are Walking Off...
Share this post As a strike wave sweeps the U.S. healthcare industry amid the Covid-19 pandemic, 700 frontline workers at 11 Chicago-area nursing homes have been on the picket lines since...
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Work Is the Reason Latinos Are Getting Slammed So Hard by the Pandemic
Share this post The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have hammered the Latino community. Latinos make up 40 percent of COVID-19 deaths after adjusting for age, according to the Centers for...
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Essential food workers strike over $1 in New York City, this week in the war...
Share this post Remember back in April when everyone suddenly realized that food chain workers are essential workers? A group of workers in the Bronx is trying to make good on that realization as they...
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Chicago Nurses Are Going on Strike—And Management Is Bringing in Scabs...
Share this post Nurses and support staff in the Chicago area are joining other militant healthcare workers across the country by walking off the job, despite attempts by their bosses to hire...
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Portillo’s Food Chain Walk Out on Strike
Share this post A group of non-unionized workers at the Chicago-based chain staged a week-long walk out, part of a growing wave of strikes in the area. Alleging unfairly low pay and employer...
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‘We Want to See Our Families’: Frito-Lay Workers Strike Over 84-Hour Weeks,...
Share this post Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime. Some workers have been forced to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, for...
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Striking Alabama Miners Are Done Playing Nice
Share this post Hundreds of UMWA miners remain on the picket line at the Warrior Met Coal mine. BROOKWOOD, ALA.?—??“You ain’t working tonight!” That was one of the picket line chants heard June 15 as...
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