Nursing in the US is highly unionized, well-paid, and increasingly central to the economy. Rank-and-file nurses are well-positioned to fight for common good demands and for a broader revival of the labor movement.
Nurses say they are walking to demand competitive wages, affordable health insurance, and stronger protections for patient care.
Under the new tentative agreement, the legacy workers will immediately jump from $22 to $30. Others will move to $30 in four steps over four years.
Striking U.S. Workers Are Off to a Great Start (1786), YOU Are the Un-Americans! (1956), The Pentagon Papers, Warts and All (1971), ¡Vieques Libre! (2001), A Conspiracy of Hope (1986), The Beginning of the End for Apartheid (1976)
We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.
Meatpacking workers face an uphill battle as they fight for better conditions. Union density in the industry has fallen precipitously. Up to 90 percent of meatpacking workers belonged to unions in the postwar era, but only 15 percent did by 2019.
When we look at the history of U-turns from democratic backsliding to democratic revival, the success rate is about 50% - a coin toss. But where there is active, vibrant union participation in civil resistance, the success rate climbs to over 80%.
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Uprisings Provide A Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny?
The working class is in the fight of our lives. The unity between Trump and the billionaires exploiting us isn’t even hidden anymore. It will take a lot of organizing and ironclad working-class unity to match these forces, but the fight is on.
It will take a lot of organizing but the fight is definitely on.
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