MultiCare employees in Washington state are overworked, understaffed, and undersupplied with personal protective equipment.
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Battling discrimination on the job
A multi-racial group of transit workers is heating up its campaign against blatant white-supremacism on the job, in a county named after Martin Luther King, Jr. “The irony is appalling.”
Re: stopping state budget cuts — “We need to put the fear of rebellion into them”
The rousing impromptu speech by unionist Steve Hoffman at a solidarity rally of staff, academic workers and students denouncing budget cuts and layoffs at Seattle’s community colleges.
Las elecciones de 2020: Qué sucedió, por qué y qué va a pasar
Es el berrinche que pasará a la historia. A pesar de que su opositor obtuvo 306 votos decisivos en el Colegio Electoral y un pequeño margen de victoria en el conteo popular, Donald Trump todavía se negaba a conceder la elección a Joe Biden semanas después del día de las elecciones. El resultado del concurso… Read more »
Teamster reform movement sabotaged by reliance on Big Brother and ties to Democratic Party
The Carey affair again exposes the Achilles heel of the U.S. labour movement – its class-collaborationists, co-dependent relationship with the Democratic Party.
Organising the Unorganised
Australia has one of the highest rates of part-time and casual work in the world, and three-quarters of part-time and casual workers are women. Casualisation is growing sharply. Two years ago, one in five workers was part-time or casual. Now it is one in four.
New South Wales TAFE: Casual Teachers Fire Up
The activist Special Interest Group model within the structure of the union has resulted in significant gains for casual workers in the NSW TAFE system. It is a model TAFE workers in other states must consider.
Organising Against Intimidation at Northern TAFE: Support Swells for Union/Community Campaign
Former union leaders from the Australian Education Union (AEU) sub-branch at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) are prepared to campaign for as long as it takes to bring the union busting management at the Institute to heel. The No More Intimidation of Teacher (NMIT) Unionists Campaign Committee, established at an AEU sub-branch stopwork meeting… Read more »
The nail-biter 2020 US election: What happened, why, and what’s next?
An exploration of what and who voters were casting ballots for and against – and what the country can expect next.
MLK Labor council to take action “up to and including a general strike”
The Seattle-area county labor council joins a growing number of union bodies passing resolutions calling for a general strike if necessary to prevent Trump from stealing the election.
