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O caso aconteceu neste sábado (10/7), na região onde é realizada a tradicional feira do Bairro Esplanada, em uma área de grande movimentação. Enquanto um agente abordava um motorista, o prefeito apareceu questionando se ele estava multando-o.  Sem que deixasse nenhum dos dois se explicar, disparou em tom alterado: “Se você tiver feito alguma multa para ele eu vou rasgar agora”. O condutor tenta explicar a razão da abordagem, mas é interrompido.  O guarda também, por vári...

  Local Workers and Local Labor Unions Unite in Support of Heather Hutt for California’s 54th Assembly District By Sentinel Staff Report Heather Hutt (Courtesy Photo) In a time when African American women are fighting for a voice in Sacramento, local labor unions say Heather Hutt is the leader we need in Sacramento to fight for the working class. Heather Hutt comes from a working-class family in the Leimert Park neighborhood, right off of Crenshaw Blvd.  She is a single mother who has raise...

(Mario Tama / Getty) A dozen years ago, I visited the Chicago offices of the National Nurses Organizing Committee on the city’s West Side. Visible through a large window was a gigantic parking garage, an annex to one of the equally huge hospitals clustered within a dozen blocks. Cook County, Mount Sinai, and three other medical complexes employed tens of thousands of workers. Among those seeking to organize them was an African American NNOC staffer. Books in Review The Next Shift: The Fa...

St. Vincent Hospital nurses in Worcester, Mass. in second week of strike for safe staffing ratios Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have entered their second week of an ongoing strike. They are demanding that Tenet Healthcare, which owns St. Vincent Hospital, agree to establish strict ratios for safer patient and workplace conditions. The roughly 700 nurses on the picket line, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, have been joined by other health care worker...

New Harris County collaboration offers free recovery resources and legal aid for renters Published:  Updated:  Tags:  HOUSTON – As Harris County recovers from the COVID job recession and the recent winter storms, local officials and community leaders have come together to hold an event Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. providing renters at risk of eviction with information about their rights under the CDC order preventing evictions for nonpayment of rent. Volunteer attorneys will help tenants...

Inoculating a casino workforce against COVID-19 could boost a damaged gaming market By Howard Stutz, Executive Editor, CDC Gaming Reports January 19, 2021 at 10:29 pm Steps were taken in the past week to help Nevada’s battered casino industry recover from the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Steve Sisolak prioritized eligibility of frontline gaming and tourism workers in the state’s current coronavirus vaccine distribution schedule Wynn Resorts converted Encore’...

Iron Workers Local 29 turned its Northeast Portland union headquarters parking lot into a winter wonderland Dec. 19. “Night on Santa Lane” took the place of “Breakfast With Santa,” a party the union, credit union, and training center have put on for members and their kids and grandkids for 34 years. Because of the coronavirus restrictions ordered by the governor, the breakfast party had to be canceled this year. Teri Robison, CEO of the Iron Workers National Credit Union, envisioned som...