Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues.
Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues.
The Professional Staff Congress/AFT is stepping up its campaign to demand $7,000 per course for Adjuncts at CUNY.
Capitalism treats blue-collar and white-collar wage earners differently than salary earners. Since the 1980s, anybody who has a non-bullshit job, who is doing actual work, has seen their work downsized, sped up and Taylorized.
I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost.
But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff.
We should honor and celebrate the role of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the struggle to advance the cause of worker justice in years past and in our present.
“We have regular emergencies on the buses,” said John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union. “Folks have heart attacks on buses, children get lost on buses. Every aspect of life in America, the bus and subway are microcosms of it. A robot’s not going to help."
Thousands of workers across the University of California system have launched a three-day strike.
AFSCME 3299 authorizes strike; nurses, healthcare workers to strike in solidarity
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