Sure, I’d watched and loved Karloff (pictured below, without makeup) playing all those scary roles growing up as a kid. He made Halloween that much more special for me and for so many others and the memories that I’ve kept…
State workers went on a one-day unfair labor practice strike across California October 21, with picket lines in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities. They're demanding better pay, affordable health care coverage, and flexibility to work from home. This…
Roaming the sleepy streets of Pullman on Chicago’s Southeast Side, it’s difficult to imagine a time when it was the chaotic center of worker struggle in the United States. Later known as the Pullman Strike, the struggle became the largest-ever…
Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line by Phil Cohen is available from Fighting Union Busters. Cohen demonstrates as much as he explains how every aspect of the above is at the heart of a union’s ability to…
SACRAMENTO—From San Diego to San Francisco and north, almost 100,000 California state workers struck for a day on October 21 to protest Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unfair labor practices, specifically his failure to bargain in good faith for a new contract.
(SALINAS, Calif.) – A group of 40 workers at the multibillion-dollar waste hauler Republic Services have voted to join Teamsters Local 350. The drivers, mechanics, and heavy equipment operators provide vital waste collection services to commercial and residential customers in the Salinas, Calif.,…
WNY Labor Today - State Workers Take Part In A One-Day Strike Across California, ‘Accusing’ The Newsom Administration Has ‘Failed To Bargain Over Fair Pay, Affordable Health Care & Telework That Works For The People Who Keep California Running’ - UNITE HERE-Represented Hotel…
When management walked out of bargaining last week, the AFSCME members who keep Corvallis, Oregon, running knew a strike was the only remaining option in their fight for a fair, new contract. More than 150 members of Local 2975 (Oregon AFSCME), joined…
CHICAGO—Hundreds of hotel workers walked off the job at six Chicago hotels last week, launching what could become the largest hotel worker strike in the city’s history. The strike began Oct. 9, just days before the Chicago Marathon drew an…
The county says about 465 striking workers obstructed three landfills, while the union says its picketing is lawful and no citations were issued The County of Orange asked California’s labor board on October 19 to intervene in a Teamsters strike that it…
Strikes and walkouts by nurses, hotel, auto, Starbucks and public workers, strike votes, picket lines and the contracts they win.
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