L.A. was the city where the ethnicity and ideology of union leadership came to reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Federation of Labor.
Worker Power is a new political organization with deep roots in the work of UNITE HERE Local 11, the hospitality workers local in Southern California & Arizona. They are bringing union organizing tactics to door-knocking and political power building.
In Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the union has been talking to voters about progressive fixes to inflation for months, when Democrats didn’t know what to say.
When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts. Yet since 2011, the teams’ average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today’s dollars) to $2.1 billion.
We know the union-busters' playbook. But the players and their reach are less well known.
With much at state for Virginia workers and families, 200 out-of-work housekeepers, cooks, servers, dishwashers, and hospitality workers triple efforts to increase goal to knock over 200,000 doors for Democrats by Election Day.
This time, unions intend to get something done.
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Braving guns and threats, smoke and a pandemic, hotel and restaurant union workers are rallying voters in Arizona. And they are finding a surprising number of people want to talk about an election they see as the most important of their lifetime.
The California governor vetoed a bill that would have provided some of the 28,000 recently laid off Disney workers (and others) with additional COVID-19 work protections.
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