Unions

Health Workers In UK Intensify Their Fight For Fair Wages And Dignity

December 23, 2022 People's Dispatch. Resist! Europe, Health Care, Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights and Jobs

Health workers in the UK are intensifying their agitation, demanding a wage hike at par with soaring inflation. On Tuesday, December 20, nurses affiliated with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) went on strike in NHS hospitals across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Nurses are protesting the Tory government’s refusal to further discuss the demands of the nursing community for increased wages and to mitigate the ongoing and acute cost of living crisis. On Thursday, December 15, over 100,000 nurses went on strike, demanding the same. On Wednesday, December 21, ambulance drivers in England and Wales affiliated with unions Unite and GMB also went on strike, demanding wage hikes and more staff. The union, Unite, has pointed out that “ambulance staff have seen their wages collapse in value this year, down by £2,400 [2901.36 USD], with NHS pay having fallen by £6,000 [7253.40 USD] since 2010.”

Rally To Save Labor And Delivery Department At St. Francis Hospital

December 23, 2022 Ryan Hamann, Fight Back News. Resist! Health Care, Labor Movement, Unions, Wisconsin, Worker Rights and Jobs

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - More than 60 workers and union members from Ascension St. Francis Hospital (SFH), together with community supporters, gathered outside Milwaukee’s city hall on the evening of December 20. The event was called for by the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (WFNHP) Local 5000, the union which represents nurses and technical and service employees at the hospital. The purpose for the rally was to raise awareness around the services being cut at the hospital, specifically management’s decision to close down the labor and delivery department. This closure isn’t only significant because of the jobs being lost, but because it is the only unit of its kind on Milwaukee’s South Side, home to many working Chicano/Mexicano families.

Alta Bates Nurses Revolt

December 22, 2022 Sarah Hughes, Labor Notes. Resist! Health Care, Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center are set to vote on a tentative contract agreement on December 21, ahead of their Christmas Eve strike date. The problem? The negotiating committee of elected nurses is unanimous in its rejection of what Summit management says is its “last, best, and final” offer. Vocal member leaders at the Oakland-area complex allege that California Nurses Association (CNA) staff are ignoring the objections of the negotiating team and pushing a bad agreement on the members. Notably, while many nurses have been making gains at the bargaining table, the Alta Bates tentative agreement includes concessions, including the loss of the defined-benefit pension plan for new hires, who would be moved to a “cash balance design.”

Biggest Contracts Expiring In 2023

December 21, 2022 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. Educate! Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Teamsters contract covering 340,000 package car drivers and warehouse workers at UPS expires July 31. New Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has promised the union will be ready for the first strike against the parcel giant since 1997. “The days of concessions and walking all over our members are over,” he said in August, kicking off the contract campaign. “We won’t extend negotiations by a single day. We’ll either have a signed agreement that day or be hitting the pavement.”

2022 In Review: Harsh Conditions, Good Surprises

December 20, 2022 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And crucially, union members stood up to demand more from their unions and their leadership. Workers overturned a lot of conventional wisdom in 2022. Small shops are supposed to be nearly impossible to organize, yet it was just a year ago that Starbucks workers in Buffalo won their union election, followed by 266 other stores around the country—more than 7,000 workers.

Highway Workers Are Driving The Fight For Fair Pay

December 19, 2022 Taj Ali, Tribune Magazine. Resist! Highway Workers, Labor Movement, Transportation, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Comprising over 4,000 miles of road, the strategic road network, consisting of England’s motorways and major roads, carries around a third of all motor vehicle traffic in England. Those responsible for looking after this important road network, the National Highways workforce, are tasked with ensuring our major roads are dependable, durable, and—most importantly—safe. Lisa Marshall, a PCS union rep and Highways worker in Yorkshire, joined the profession in 2016. With a substantial rise in the number of cars on the road, she says it’s an incredibly important job. ‘Traffic officers are normally the first on scene in the event of emergency, prior to the police and ambulance getting there,’ she explains. ‘They assess the situation and try and make it safe.’

How Part-Time Faculty Won Their Strike At The New School

December 17, 2022 Miles Hamberg, The Real News Network. Strategize! Education, Labor Movement, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Strikes, The New School, Unions, Victory

At midnight on Dec. 10, part-time faculty at The New School and Parsons School of Design officially suspended their strike after a nearly seven-hour-long mediation session with the university administration ended with a tentative agreement (TA). The union’s bargaining committee, which is composed entirely of part-time faculty at The New School, unanimously chose to suspend the strike while they prepare to hold a ratification vote. Alex Robins, a union staff member and part-time instructor teaching at Parsons School of Design, told TRNN that approximately 300 (exhausted) part-time faculty members attended the final mediation session via Zoom. “The mood was absolutely ebullient,” he said. “I breathed for the first time in a month. They came into negotiations seemingly aiming to break the union.

Are You A Public School Teacher In A State That Bans Collective Bargaining?

December 17, 2022 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Organize! Education, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Recently, a friend of mine tweeted, “watching all these workers rise up in solidarity makes me so damn proud and excited… and sad i live in a state which forbids collective bargaining for public sector workers. the FOMO is real. if you can unionize, do it!!!” She then clarified that her state (Virginia) did amend the law so that municipal employees could unionize if given permission by the municipality, but that other state employees (including those like her, who work for public colleges and universities) still do not have a pathway forward. This made me think. I grew up in North Carolina, one of five states where public sector collective bargaining is still completely banned. Ballotpedia lists 17 other states, including Virginia, where public sector collective bargaining is “permitted” but not required (read: restricted in various ways, such as Virginia’s requirement for municipal permission), but even a map like this one obscures other union-busting legal measures.

Starbucks Workers Head Into Their Biggest Strike Ever

December 17, 2022 Jaya Saxena, Eater. Resist! Labor Movement, Starbucks, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The year of the strike is ending with a bang. Starbucks Workers United has announced that workers at over 100 stores in the U.S. are embarking on a three-day strike starting today and ending December 18. The “Double Down Strike” will affect Starbucks locations in multiple states, including the flagship Seattle Roastery, which is where Starbucks CEO and noted union antagonist Howard Schultz regularly gets his coffee. In a statement to Eater, Starbucks Workers United says “the ‘Double Down Strike’, a nationwide unfair labor practice (ULP) strike, is the longest collective action in the campaign’s history and is the latest escalation against Starbucks’ ruthless campaign of anti-union bullying.” This comes after a recent action on November 17, where over 1,000 Starbucks workers at more than 100 stores went on strike on Red Cup Day, Starbucks’s money-making “holiday” where it gives away collectible holiday cups.

Rail Workers Oust Union President Who Backed Labor Deal

December 15, 2022 Jonah Furman, More Perfect Union. Resist! Labor Movement, Railroads, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

In a stunning upset, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the 28,000-member union of railroad workers, has elected a new president. Eddie Hall, a local officer out of Division 28 in Tucson, Arizona, won against incumbent Dennis Pierce with 53 percent of the membership-wide vote. Hall will take office on January 1st, pending official certification of the results, and will lead the larger of the two unions that make up the Teamsters Rail Conference. The surprise victory is the latest fallout from a national freight rail showdown in which some 60,000 rail workers had a contract imposed on them. In the BLET, the second-largest union involved in negotiations, members ratified a deal, but many members were unhappy with the outcome.

Global Actions On Black Friday Unite Workers To ‘Make Amazon Pay’

December 15, 2022 Peter Olney and Rand Wilson, Labor Notes. Resist! Amazon, Black Friday, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Over the last 27 years Amazon has grown from a little-known online bookseller to a global sprawling logistics and delivery empire, overtaking brick-and-mortar retailers with its e-commerce offerings and threatening to make serious inroads on last-mile carriers like FedEx, UPS, and the Postal Service. Recently Amazon even established a virtual health services company: Amazon Clinic. As the company’s tentacles reach around the world, organizing its massive 1.5 million workforce necessitates new levels of international union cooperation and solidarity. UNI Global Union, a federation representing logistics and service workers headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, stepped up for the third year in a row to coordinate worldwide actions on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, Black Friday.

New School Teachers’ Strike Ends As NYC University Cuts Deal With Union

December 13, 2022 Olivia Ebertz, Gothamist. Resist! Education, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

New York City, New York - The New School reached a tentative contract agreement with its part-time faculty this weekend, ending a strike that lasted nearly a month. A joint statement released by the faculty’s union, ACT-United Auto Workers Local 7902, and the New School on Saturday said two highlights of the five-year deal are pay raises and boosts to health care for the workers. Union leaders said they expect the agreement to be ratified by the group’s 2,400 members later this week — and said all classes and events would resume immediately. “Now, together, we can return to our mission of teaching, learning, creating and supporting our students,” the statement said. The agreement comes just in time for the final week of the university’s fall semester.

Eric Blanc Takes A Hatchet To US History

December 13, 2022 Jason Koslowski, Left Voice. Strategize! Democratic Party, History, Labor Movement, New Deal, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

From unionizing Starbucks and Amazon workers to thousands of graduate students on strike, we’re seeing a fresh upsurge of union struggle in the United States. And that movement is becoming more militant: the last few months alone have seen a major uptick in strikes, with this year already outstripping the last. Eric Blanc has weighed in on the upsurge. Assistant professor at Rutgers and writer at Jacobin and elsewhere, he recently sent out and posted a four-part essay (here are parts I, II, III, and IV) responding to the work of Charlie Post as well as Cody Melcher and Michael Goldfield. In it, Blanc wants to convince union organizers our first hope has to lie in the Democratic Party. For him, a key part of our strategy has to be voting for, and appealing to, Democrats.

Grueling Holiday Conditions On The Horizon For Airport Workers

December 12, 2022 Michael Sainato, The Real News Network. Educate! Airlines, Airports, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Every year, the media churns out countless headlines on holiday travel surges, operational issues, delays, and lost bags, while ignoring low paid and understaffed workers at airports around the United States. Starting Thanksgiving week, airports are flooded with a holiday surge in passengers, with air travel this season projected to be around 99% of pre-pandemic levels. Bearing the brunt of the holiday travel demands are airport workers who are now expected to handle this surge despite severe understaffing and low pay in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were initially laid off or furloughed at the onset of the pandemic, which added considerable stress to the overwhelmed workforce. While airlines have returned to relative normalcy, reporting millions of dollars in profits and increased air travel demand, workers report being unable to afford their basic living necessities on the wages they are paid.

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