Portside

The future of an industry in crisis depends on support for the most disenfranchised—its workers. For restaurant workers the current crisis is an opportunity to demand remedies for long-standing ills such as wage theft, safety, abusive management.

he film and TV workers’ union IATSE ratified a pair of contracts on Monday, despite a majority of ballots being cast against the larger of the two deals. Thanks to the union’s Electoral College–style voting system, that contract passed anyway.

U.S. school bus drivers in nationwide strikes over poor pay and Covid risk Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year.

This article by Michael Goldfield and Cody R. Melcher introduces a new “Moments of Rupture” series from Organizing Upgrade, meant to draw lessons from prior key historic moments for organizers today.

The Kaiser Permanente partnership finds itself in crisis as 34,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers prepare to strike on Monday, in what would be the largest walkout in this fall’s strike wave.

Registration is now open for the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. (Please note that the date has changed from March to June due to Covid safety concerns.)

The pandemic has shown us how antiquated our leave policies are and how dearly they have cost us.

​“The only way to make a change is to pressure these people into understanding that we aren’t … animals to control at their will.”

Mr. August and Mr. Steier said the Chief would publish a new stream of national labor coverage early next year, and Mr. August said he hoped to eventually double the paper’s staff, which now stands at three reporters.

Baltimore Museum of Art workers are unionizing for livable wages, staff advancement, health and safety.