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STRIKES & NEGOTIATIONS 300 members of Operating Engineers Local 150 at quarries around Chicago have been on strike since June 7th, and voted…
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STRIKES & NEGOTIATIONS What’s old is new again, and Joe Biden has awoken from his slumber to stop a 120,000-worker rail strike that otherwise could have…
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STRIKES & NEGOTIATIONS The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a Teamsters affiliate and one of a dozen and a half unions involved in…
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Hello, after an unplanned (but not unpredictable) hiatus! The Labor Notes Conference was a huge success, but sadly the weekly newsletter had to fall by…
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Another two-fer here, and thanks for your patience as always. As I’ve mentioned, most of my time these days is going into preparing for the largest-ever…
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Thanks all for your patience as I took a week off (in part because the Labor Notes Conference is just weeks away, and between the thousands of attendees…
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For Convergence, I wrote about this very newsletter, a topic that may interest you as someone who is currently reading this newsletter. Check it out…
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This week, my coworker Luis Feliz Leon continues to bring the heat reporting on Amazon, first with a piece for Labor Notes on the second Staten Island…
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STRIKES & NEGOTIATIONS K-12: After eight school days, the Sacramento K-12 strike by the local teachers union and SEIU Local 1021 is over. Among other…
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Amazon Labor Union. Amazon Labor Union!! The independent union is going to need massive public support and, among other things, is fundraising to take…
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If you’re reading this newsletter, there’s like a 99% chance you would be the exact type of person who should come to this summer’s Labor Notes…
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This one’s another two-fer, and because the double editions can get prohibitively long, plus personal commitments taking away some time I’d usually have…
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