The three-year tentative contract agreement ensures pay hikes, cheaper health care and other financial gains for the workers represented by the UIC Graduate Employees Organization.
"We are facing the greatest existential crisis humanity has ever faced. And yet it has been ignored. You who have ignored it know who you are.”
The senator and 2020 presidential candidate called the 90-day deal a win for workers "who are sick and tired of seeing their standard of living decline as a result of corporate greed."
The city’s 3,000 teachers walked off the job to demand higher pay, smaller classes and more school resources.
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UHW was an incubator of talent, organizers who are still bargaining for the common good, utilizing the power of the strike, and promoting a political agenda for labor that’s focused on issues, rather than personalities.
Steuben’s book remains astonishingly relevant today — which speaks both to the enduring facts of employment relations in capitalism, as well as to the efficacy of Steuben’s strategic perspective.
Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win
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This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?
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