the nation saw 33 major work stoppages initiated last year, the highest count since the year 2000, which recorded 39 stoppages. Source
Posts Tagged ‘workers’
Record-breaking 459,000 workers strike in 2023: US labor movement hits 23-year high
Starbucks workers across 14 states launch historic unionization bid in a single day
“It’s important that we’re recognized as people rather than profit machines.” Source
Health Care Workers At US Hospital Given Live Ebola Vaccine That Sheds
Bill Gates secret ebola vaccine program is now out in the open. Denver Health in Colorado, has given healthcare workers an Ebola vaccine with a 31% shed rate BYPASS THE CENSORS Sign up to get unfiltered news delivered straight to your inbox. You can unsubscribe any time. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of […]
41 Workers Rescued After Being Trapped In Collapsed Tunnel For 17 Days In India
UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for more than two weeks have been pulled out after rescuers reached them on Tuesday. Nitin Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, said on X, formerly known as Twitter, […]
Minimum of two months imprisonment for ‘illegal’ Palestinian workers
Regular remand hearings in the Haifa court are held in the basement, on the “minus 2” floor. Regular hearings are still suspended due to the “war situation,” but the remand courtroom and the adjacent waiting hall are bustling. There are still many new political detentions, mostly for social media posts. As part of the “situation,” […]
Amazon’s Black Friday fiasco: over 1000 workers rebel in historic pay dispute strike
Image credit: Flickr As Black Friday dawned, Amazon’s usual bustling operations were thrown into chaos as more than 1,000 workers at the Coventry distribution warehouse abandoned their posts. This significant labor upheaval, unrivaled in Amazon’s three-decade history, marks a defining moment in the ongoing global fight for fair wages and humane working conditions. Across the […]
Gaza workers stranded in Israel were tortured, interrogated
Ahmad, 58, has been working in Israel as a mechanic since he was 24 years old. He worked in Israel for nearly 20 years until Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007. Then, after nearly 17 years of a brutal Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, he returned a year and a half […]
“New Years’ Nightmare”: IRS Targets Gig Workers, Sends 30 Million New Tax Forms
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new IRS tax on gig workers would result in additional documentation that will create confusion among individual taxpayers as the agency does not have “centralized leadership” to deal with the expansion, according to a watchdog. A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is […]
Healthcare workers stand in solidarity with Gaza and the people of Palestine
Editor’s Note: The following open letter was issued by the Campaign Against Racism, Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, and Jewish Voice for Peace- Atlanta chapter on November 16, 2023. To add your name, sign here. As we witness the horrific scenes of the destruction of life particularly in Gaza and elsewhere […]
‘No Contract, No Coffee’: Starbucks Workers Hold Largest Strike in Company History
Strikers at Astor Place picket line. Image Credit: Jules Roscoe Thousands of unionized Starbucks workers took part in the largest strike against the company in its history on Thursday. Known as the “Red Cup Rebellion,” the strike was planned in response to Starbucks’ Red Cup day, known to be one of its most profitable days […]
Demands for media workers in this moment
Western media is implicated in the genocide unfolding in Gaza through its double standards against Palestinians, and deep institutional complicity and collusion. Here are the Palestine movement’s demands on media workers and institutions. Source
Foreign workers could fill the current gap in our high-tech competition with China
When the world’s largest computer chip maker pledged to pump $40 billion into a production hub in Phoenix, it sparked optimism that the United States would remain a world leader in tech. But the huge investment has been slowed due mainly to “an insufficient amount of skilled workers,” according to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company chairman… […]
Elon Musk Calls Remote Workers “Detached From Reality”
Elon Musk Calls Remote Workers “Detached From Reality” Tesla CEO Elon Musk went on a crusade against the remote work crowd during the company’s earnings call with investors on Wednesday evening. This is not the first time Musk has blasted remote work, calling it “morally wrong” and “bullshit” earlier this year. Here’s where Musk begins […]
Qatar World Cup construction workers sue US firm for labour trafficking
Dozens of Filipino workers who helped build stadiums that hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming US construction firm, Jacobs Solutions Inc., subjected them to dangerous and inhumane conditions, Reuters reports. The nearly 40 plaintiffs in a complaint filed in federal court in Denver, Colorado, said Jacobs and several subsidiaries […]
Thousands of New Zealand Health Service Workers Secretly Exempted from Covid Vaccine Mandates
More than 11,000 Health New Zealand employees may have secretly dodged Covid vaccination, despite nationwide mandates and vaccine passports for everyone else. The news comes from an Official Information Act (OIA) request asking how many exemptions had been granted within the national public health service, Te Whatu Ora. From the response, dated 02 August 2023, “From 13 […]
4,000 UAW Mack Trucks Workers Begin Striking At East Coast Plants
4,000 UAW Mack Trucks Workers Begin Striking At East Coast Plants Approximately 4,000 United Auto Workers members at several Volvo-Owned Mack Trucks locations on the East Coast are heading to the picket lines at 0700 ET after a majority of members rejected a tentative agreement reached by the union and truck company last week. […]
More on the Secret Exemptions for Mandated Healthcare Workers in NZ
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WHO: 101 health workers killed in Libya’s Storm Daniel
As many as 101 health workers in Libya were killed during Storm Daniel or in its immediate aftermath, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. “The deceased health workers are among the 4,333 people thus far confirmed dead following the storm while more than 8,500 people are still missing,” the WHO said in a statement yesterday. Even before […]
Trump To Michigan Auto Workers: ‘You Built this Country’
While Senator Tim Scott declared from the Reagan Library that union demands for higher pay and shorter work weeks “will not stand,” Donald Trump told workers in Michigan that “we love being with you.” Source
UAW Files Complaint Against Tim Scott for Suggesting Auto Workers Be Fired
The United Auto Workers have filed a labor complaint against Sen. Tim Scott after he suggested that auto workers be fired for striking. Source
Ford: 600 Michigan Workers Temporarily Laid Off as UAW Strikes Ramp Up
A large batch of Ford workers at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne have been temporarily laid off as the company endures the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. Source
Fetterman to join striking UAW workers in Michigan: ‘I know which side I’m on’
Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) office announced he will drive from his home in Pennsylvania to an auto plant outside Detroit on Saturday to join the thousands of striking auto workers on the picket line. “I know which side I’m on. As long as these brave workers continue to walk the picket line, my entire team and… […]
Trump Defends Auto Workers Against Biden’s Green Agenda: You’re ‘Being Sold Down the River’ to China
Former President Donald Trump is warning America’s auto workers that President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda will outsource their jobs to China as the United Auto Workers (UAW) goes on strike against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis. Source
Dem Rep. Slotkin: Inflation Hurting Auto Workers Helped Set the Scene for Auto Talks
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) stated that “the scene for these negotiations” between automakers and the UAW was set by large profits for auto companies and the fact that “people Source
Khanna: EVs May Mean Fewer Auto Jobs, Protection for Battery Workers Is a ‘Main Sticking Point’ in Talks
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that ensuring that all the people who work on electric vehicles have union jobs “is one of the main sticking points in the contract negotiations” between the UAW Source
Khanna: ‘A Lot’ of EV Subsidies Going ‘Where Workers Are Not Represented’ and CEOs Are Making Tons
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that “a lot” of the electric vehicle subsidies are “ending up in places where workers are not represented” while CEOs make a ton of money and companies have Source