Workers at the Starbucks Roastery in Manhattan on Ninth Avenue are in the third week of a strike. Unsanitary working conditions, including bedbugs and mold, are at issue. Management claims
More than 21,000 union nurses at 21 Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California are set to strike on November 21 and November 22. This will be one of the biggest
Resident physicians and fellows at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx announced their plan to join the Committee of Interns and Residents of SEIU on Tuesday, November 1. The healthcare
George Michell, the owner of 7 McDonalds in Brooklyn, has been ordered to pay $1 million dollars to 511 workers. The city found that he had violated their workers’ rights.
In Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, members of UNITE HERE are mobilizing to get out the vote for Democratic candidates. The three states could determine control of the US Senate in
If Republicans gain control of both houses of Congress they are promising to bring about drastic change. These changes would vastly curtail peoples’ freedoms and devastate them financially, except for
The machinists union, North America’s largest air transport union, has reached a new tentative agreement with Southwest Airlines. The agreement would give its members between a 16% and a 25%
Governor Newsom’s signing of Senate Bill 931 means there will be significant penalties on public employers for union busting. The penalties will be levied when they attempt to deter or
406 Amazon workers voted against unionizing vs. 206 for the union in Castleton-on-the-Hudson, New York on October 18. The results were tallied by the NLRB. The defeat comes after the
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and National Nurses United (NNU) have announced that the New York nurses have voted to affiliate with NNU, the largest union and professional
