…it estimated that state employers stole up to $1 billion from their workers each year. Read the full story by Max Siegelbaum for ProPublica, published August 22, 2023, here: https://www.propublica.org/article/thousands-of-new-york-workers-have-been-victims-of-wage-theft…
…by calling the union’s business partners “disgusting,” while adding, “Shame on them!” Read the full story by Noam Scheiber for the New York Times, published August 18, 2023, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/business/economy/union-leaders-teamsters-uaw-hollywood.html…
…of AI, and the WGA demand for minimum staffing requirements in writers’ rooms. Read the full story by Wendy Lee for the LA Times, published August 11, 2023, here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-08-11/wga-amptp-writers-strike-negotiations…
…curriculum and on-site opportunities as a necessary first step of joining in the union. But in some construction unions there’s often a long queue of applicants competing to get in…
…go to nearly 2,400 workers. The three entities also owe $417,000 in civil penalties. Read the full story by Duncan Lewis for The Chief-Leader, published August 23, 2023, here: https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/city-workers-to-get-45-million-from-fair-workweek-settlement,50971…
…the public safety by ensuring the roadway projects would “utilize a highly trained and skilled workforce.” Read the full story at Governor Hochul News, published August 16, 2023, here: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-legislation-ensuring-prevailing-wage-construction-workers-performing…
…not carrying out its policies towards workers in living up to its history. Read the full story by Duncan Freeman for The Chief Leader, published August 15, 2023, here: https://www.thechiefleader.com/stories/organizing-and-labor-disputes-ongoing-at-the-new-school,50934?&cb=1692281078…
…and the union’s push to end the two-tier pay system. Read the full story by Nathan Gomes, Ben Klayman, and Lisa Baertlein, for Reuters, published August 15, 2023, here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-workers-may-vote-strike-detroit-three-automakers-next-week-2023-08-15/…
…leading to the workers’ demands for the benefits a union will bring them. Read the full story by Writers Guild of America East News, published August 8, 2023, here: https://www.wgaeast.org/workers-at-story-syndicate-successfully-unionize/…
…Accenture, are being ordered to train their replacements, located in India and the Philipines. Read the full story by Press Associates for People’s World, published August 9, 2023, here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/google-subcontractor-fires-66-of-staff-for-unionizing/…
