Allina Health is spending an estimated $25 million on scab workers during the nurse's strike there, more money than Allina says it will save by demanding nurses change health care plans. Allina has said it expects to save $10 million by forcing nurses to go to an inferior health plan with higher deductibles and out of pocket costs. Read More...
Following a day of multiple protest rallies in the streets, what's next for the Chicago Teachers Union and their battle to fully fund Chicago schools? CTU Vice-President Jesse Sharkey says both the union and the community are engaged in a struggle to defend and fully fund public education in Chicago and cuts to education are unacceptable. Read More...
U.S. oilfield workers are facing a big problem, and it’s not just the depressed prices in the worldwide oil markets.
Those who have jobs, especially the lowest level and dangerous jobs in the oilfields, are at high risk of being stiffed in a variety of ways. And they’ve started to fight back.
housands of nurses began a strike in Minnesota, California and Massachusetts Sunday. Minnesota Nurses Association RN Angela Becchetti says a demand that nurses give up their health insurance for a lower quality one is the biggest issue for her members. Read More...
Union workers laid off by Nabisco's parent company are urging a boycott of Nabisco products. Nabisco decided to wipe out 600 good American jobs in Chicago to make Oreos and other products in Mexico. So far 294 workers have been laid off in two waves. Read More...
Following last year's news of Entertainment Partners acquisition of Media Services, Cast & Crew has sealed a deal to acquire CAPS Payroll making EP and C&C the two largest payroll companies in the entertainment industry.
Too many Latino workers face disease, major injury and death while laboring in dangerous jobs with inadequate safeguards. In 2014, 804 Latino workers died on the job, with 64% of these fatalities being Latino workers born outside of the United States. Latino worker deaths recently have decreased even though more Latinos are working in the construction industry than ever before: Nearly 70% of new construction jobs between 2012 and 2015 were filled by Latino workers.
Conditionally approved to share $65 million of the $330 million in tax credits that will be allocated over the 2016/17 fiscal year starting July 1 are one series relocating from Texas, “American Crime”; four shows already in the program from the previous year (“Code Black,” “Crazy Ex Girlfriend,” “Rosewood” and “Veep”); and six new series – “Citizen,” “Famous in Love,” “Pitch,” “Pure Genius,” “Rebel” and “This Is Us.”
• In a non-union setting, workers count on their own individual strength; in a union setting, workers count on their own strength plus the collective strength of the group.
• In a non-union setting, the employer makes all the rules; in a union setting, the rules are negotiated by the union and the employer.
How do we "take on Wall Street"?
Labor unions, faith groups and progressive organizations are doing it with a campaign calling for serious financial reforms.
The Take On Wall Street Campaign has come up with five specific reforms, ranging from eliminating tax loopholes that contribute to economic inequality and skyrocketing CEO pay to a speculation tax on Wall Street trades and breaking up banks that are supposedly “too big to fail”.