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Living through a historic moment
Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
A three day strike preceded the settlement.
It’s the final day of a massive health care strike over pay and staff shortages. No deal is in sight.
Workers from coast to coast are preparing to stage an unfair labor practice strike in response to what they see as unfair bargaining from Kaiser to resolve the staffing shortage.
Hospitals portray unions as opposed to the interests of patients. The opposite is true: health care unions have been the strongest advocates for safer conditions and patients who can’t pay debts.
From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.
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The show’s take on 2020 was extremely weird — and surprisingly moving.
A deep dig into how the steel industry collapse affected hundreds of thousands of decently paid workers, contrasted with the surge of hospital and nursing home hiring that never matched former pay rates or union protections afforded steel workers.
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