Around 300 staff with the Bronx Defenders Union walked off the job on Monday — the third such guild to strike this month over economic demands on behalf of its lowest-paid workers.
We want to keep our seniority, our overtime rights, and it’s important we keep the medical benefits. You put in all of these hours with the Company, and you think they would respect you. The Company doesn’t run without us. The workers make it happen.
A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.
Workers at the Long Island Rail Road, serving the eastern New York metropolitan area, walked off the job on Saturday
At the sprawling JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, 3,800 workers from around the world have united to carry out the largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years.
In Northern California, 2,400 mental health providers went on strike earlier this month against medical giant Kaiser Permanente. A major point of contention is Kaiser’s efforts to replace human-provided mental health care with artificial intelligence
Unions argue educators cannot afford to live in Los Angeles, citing housing insecurity, rising inflation and widespread debt among members. LAUSD says its offers already stretch the budget.
The big one
After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protecti
The Chamber of Deputies is weighing a labour bill that would increase work hours, cut severance pay and ease firings.
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