Ten Predictions For the Year Ahead in Labor
Common Dreams
Our infallible crystal ball reveals that 2022 will make workers want to holler.
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Confronted With The Holiday Rush, Understaffing, and Omicron, Retail Workers are Organizing and Speaking Out
Prism
The holiday season brought many of the risks and challenges of retail work to a head, from crowds and maskless customers to demanding bosses and supply chain problems.
NYC Architects Seek To Unionize With the Machinists
NYC CLC
Employees at the well-regarded firm SHoP Architects announced that they are seeking to unionize with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. If successful, they will be the first union at a prominent private-sector firm.
Boston Starbucks Workers 'Inspired' by Buffalo Union, Seek Votes as Movement Spreads
Yahoo Finance
Starbucks corporate fought the Buffalo organizing effort. Massachusetts workers are preparing for a similar campaign by Starbucks.
It's Awfully Convenient for Shippers that Longshore Workers Get Blamed for Delays, As Contract Fight Looms
Labor Notes
Frontline workers are getting blamed for supply chain problems that are caused by the bosses & politicians. Union members say the port terminal operators are trying to to cast longshore workers in a bad light ahead of contract negotiations next year.
Amazon Unionization Efforts Get A Boost Under A Settlement With U.S. Labor Board
NPR
Amazon has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation.
Graduate Workers Win Union in Card Count
Source New Mexico
UNM still challenging labor board’s decisions in court
What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas
TIME
One hundred and forty million Americans are poor or low-income in the richest nation in the history of the world. The steady growth of America’s GDP has not, in fact, been “good news for all people.”
Mass Deportation Means the Mass Deporting of Workers
Workday Minnesota
Everyone seems to have forgotten that immigrants do things, often things that nobody else wants to do. Restaurant, supply chain, and construction work is predicated on the exploitation of immigrant labor.
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End
Medium
It’s important to understand what the cost implications are for consumers with this lack of supply in the supply chain. It’s pure supply and demand economics.
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