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Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And
Workers across many industries defied conventional organizing wisdom in order to gain ground.
TUCSON, Ariz. (PAI)—Angry members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen took out their ire over the national freight rail contract agreed to by union leaders, including their longtime President Dennis Pierce, by throwing the latter out of his job.
Rail workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have ousted their longtime president.
Rail workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have ousted their longtime president.