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The Fight Isn’t Over For Farm Worker Overtime

July 6, 2016 David Bacon, www.capitalandmain.com , , , ,
By David Bacon for Capital and Main - For the state’s first hundred-plus years, certain unspoken rules governed California politics. In a state where agriculture produced more wealth than any industry, the first rule was that growers held enormous power. Tax dollars built giant water projects that turned the Central and Imperial Valleys into some of the nation’s most productive farmland.

Historic Justice For Janitors Campaign Inspires New Generation

June 27, 2016 Shane Burley, www.wagingnonviolence.org
By Shane Burley for Waging Nonviolence - Workers packed into the crowded Logan International Airport in Boston on Wednesday, June 15, where SEIU Local 32BJ brought together a large swathe of minimum-wage employees who often go unseen to hurried travelers. Baggage handlers, cabin cleaning staff and others who go through contracting companies were rallying together under an organizing banner with a history of struggle dating back 30 years. While the Fight for $15 raises headlines and wages across the United States, June 15 saw a national day of action in cities around the country for the annual anniversary of the Justice for Janitors campaign.

Allina Nurses Go All In

June 23, 2016 Alexandra Bradbury, www.labornotes.org , , ,
By Alexandra Bradbury for Labor Notes - Sometimes solidarity comes shaped like a popsicle. That’s what one nursing assistant, on her way in for the evening shift at United Hospital in St. Paul, delivered to nurses picketing in blazing 95-degree heat. Five thousand members of the Minnesota Nurses (MNA) walked out June 19, kicking off a weeklong strike at five Allina hospitals in the Twin Cities. The immediate sticking point is health insurance, but this is also a showdown over nurses’ power on the job, as Allina pushes to hand over staffing decisions to a robot.

Alabama Rising

June 23, 2016 Joe Keffer, www.ystansburyforum.com , ,
By Joe Keffer for The Stansbury Forum - On June 6th, North Carolina NAACP President and Moral Monday architect, the Reverend Doctor William Barber, captivated a racially and ethnically mixed crowd, approaching 1000, at Birmingham Alabama’s New Pilgrim Baptist Church. Reverend Barber called for a revolution of values similar to those of the Civil Rights days. He admonished, “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” Alabama is one of the most anti-worker states in the country but the combination of a fight to increase minimum wages, a lawsuit, and the commitment to work in upcoming elections signals the kind of commitment called for by Reverend Barber and the possibility of a turnaround.

At Least 40 Injured, 58 Arrested In Paris Anti-Labor Reform Protests

June 15, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com , , , ,
By Staff of RT - At least 40 people, including 29 officers, were injured as protesters against France’s highly unpopular proposed labor law clashed with police in Paris. Police made 58 arrests and deployed tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrators. Twenty-nine officers and 11 rioters have been injured during clashes in the heart of the French capital, police said.

Egypt: Hard Times Stoke Labour Unrest, Showdown Lies Ahead

June 13, 2016 Staff, www.alaraby.co.uk , , ,
By Staff of The New Arab - Labour activist Kamal al-Fayoumi has lost none of his swagger since being fired from the sprawling Egyptian textile plant where he worked for three decades and was known as an agitator. Striding through a gritty industrial town in the Nile Delta, he proudly points to workers' clubs, cooperative grocery stores, cinemas, a pool and a hospital – all of which have seen better days – and brushes off threats from management and the police.

Against Meaninglessness And Precarity: The Crisis Of Work

June 4, 2016 David Frayne, www.roarmag.org , ,
By David Frayne for ROAR Magazine - If work is vital for income, social inclusion and a sense of identity, then one of the most troubling contradictions of our time is that the centrality of work in our societies persists even when work is in a state of crisis. The steady erosion of stable and satisfying employment makes it less and less clear whether modern jobs can offer the sense of moral agency, recognition and pride required to secure work as a source of meaning and identity. The standardization, precarity and dubious social utility that characterize many modern jobs are a major source of modern misery.

Big Gains For Striking Verizon Workers In New Agreement

May 31, 2016 Staff, www.standuptoverizon.com ,
By Staff of Stand Up To Verizon - Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers who have been on strike since April 13 are celebrating big gains after reaching a tentative agreement with the company. After 45 days of the largest strike in recent history, Verizon will add 1,300 new east coast call center jobs, and reverse several other outsourcing initiatives that will create new field technician jobs. The four-year proposed agreement provides 10.9% in raises, a $1250 signing bonus in the Mid1Atlantic and a $1000 signing bonus plus a $250 healthcare reimbursement account

Honeywell Locks Out F-35 Workers; Trying To Pay Less Than $15 An Hour

May 30, 2016 Mike Elk, www.paydayreport.com
By Mike Elk for Payday Report - In November of 1936, South Bend, Indiana’s Honeywell Aerospace plant, then owned by Bendix, was the site of the first sit-down strike by the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The workers were ultimately successful in getting the UAW recognized, and the tactic quickly spread across the US, inspiring the workers who lead the far more well known Flint Sit Down that December. Now, the plant, where workers make wheels for F-35s and Boeing 747s, might be the site of another first in labor relations: the first Honeywell plant where some union workers will be making less than $15 an hour—if the company gets it way.

Average CEO Raise Is Ten Times What Workers Earn

May 28, 2016 Stan Choe, www.hosted2.ap.org , , , ,
By Stan Choe for Associated Press - NEW YORK (AP) — CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That's almost double the typical American worker's, and a lot more than investors earned from owning their stocks — a big fat zero. The typical chief executive in the Standard & Poor's 500 index made $10.8 million, including bonuses, stock awards and other compensation, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's up from the median of $10.3 million the same group of CEOs made a year earlier.

Mexican Government Fires A Staggering 3000 Striking Teachers

May 25, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Mexico's secretary of education said Thursday that more than three thousand teachers from the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan would be fired for missing three consecutive days of work without justification, despite the fact the teachers have missed work as a result of being on strike over a series of reforms forced upon them by the federal government. A spokesperson from the National Coordinator of Education Workers, a leftist breakaway from the national teachers' union, said they would keep their strike going despite the threat of dismissal.

Report Indicates TPP Will Produce Almost No Benefits

May 20, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org ,
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - The government's own assessment of the toxic Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) shows that the controversial trade deal will produce negligible economic benefits while damaging most Americans' jobs and wages. The U.S. International Trade Commission's (ITC) report (pdf), issued Wednesday, shows that the TPP "would likely have only a small positive effect on U.S. growth," Reuters reported. "This may be the most damning government report ever submitted for a trade agreement." Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers

Public Cost Of Low-Wage Production Jobs In Manufacturing

May 18, 2016 Ken Jacobs et al, www.laborcenter.berkeley.edu ,
By Ken Jacobs, Zohar Perla, Ian Perry and Dave Graham-Squire for UC Berkely Labor Center - Much attention has been given in recent years to low-wage work in the fast-food industry, big-box retail, and other service sector industries in the U.S. The rise of low-wage business models in the service sector has often been contrasted to business models of the past, when blue collar jobs in the manufacturing industry supported a large middle class in the United States. Recent research by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), however, found that manufacturing production wages now rank in the bottom half of all jobs in the United States.

Solidarity: Demand Reinstatement Of Haitian Union Organizer

May 18, 2016 Staff, www.workersstruggle.org , ,
By Staff of Workers Struggle - Following the day of mobilization on May 11, 2016 that the Textile Factory Union Platform-Batay Ouvriye (PLASIT-BO) launched to demand that the government set the minimum wage at 500 Gourdes ($7.94 for an eight-hour workday) and publish an Executive Order to make it official immediately, Clifford Apaid, owner of the plant, Premium Apparel, made the decision to fire our comrade, Telemarque Pierre, General Coordinator of Apparel and Textile Workers Union (SOTA-BO) and spokesperson for PLASIT, on Saturday May 14, 2016.

Oxfam Report Describes Mistreatment Of Chicken Workers

May 17, 2016 Staff, www.oxfamamerica.org ,
By Staff of Oxfam - Chicken is the most popular meat in America, and the poultry industry is booming. But workers on the processing line do not share in the bounty. Poultry workers 1) earn low wages of diminishing value, 2) suffer elevated rates of injury and illness, and 3) often experience a climate of fear in the workplace. Despite this, though, workers themselves say that the thing that offends their dignity most is simple: lack of adequate bathroom breaks, and the suffering that entails, especially for women.
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