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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.

With prospects dimming for national Democrats to wield power, the time is ripe for the party to go local.

Multilevel marketing is a scam. But thanks to protection by political elites and well-funded industry propaganda, it keeps growing. Cracking down on it would be as simple as enforcing the laws against fraud — if only the political will could be found

Tenet Healthcare Continues to Retaliate Against Nurses for Exercising Their Right to Advocate for Better Care

A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.