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NEW YORK and WASHINGTON —Bosses’ refusal to meaningfully bargain forced simultaneous public protests at two of the nation’s most-prominent newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, the News Guild reported. At both papers, the unions cited corporate greed.
WASHINGTON—With strong union support—and a phalanx of low-wage workers of color backing him—Senate Labor Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., formally introduced his legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour over five years.
WASHINGTON —Steady and calm under a barrage of hostile Republican propaganda, Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten refuted right-wing charges of undue union influence on pandemic policy on whether, when, how and if schools should have opened at the height of the coronavirus plague.
AUGUSTA, Ga. —Remember Jaysin Saxton? The National Labor Relations Board’s Atlanta regional office is going to bat against Starbucks and for him, big time.
HOLLYWOOD—TV, livestreaming, and motion picture studio bosses’ intransigence in bargaining and creation of “a gig economy inside a unionized workforce,” forced 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who craft scripts for television, motion pictures, streaming videos and similar form...