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Chicago teachers reach tentative agreement but one key thing is missing to end strike

Leave a Comment / Strike, Teachers / By max cyril

The Chicago Teachers Union reported a tentative agreement with schools management Wednesday night, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot is holding up the end of the strike in a disagreement over make-up instructional days. In previous strikes, the schools have added make-up days to the end of the school year—but Lightfoot doesn’t want to do that. Chicago …

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Teacher strikes close schools across Oklahoma and Kentucky

Leave a Comment / Teachers / By max cyril

The red-state teachers rebellion that started in West Virginia continues to grow, with teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma walking out on Monday after the Kentucky teachers shut down schools in nearly two dozen counties on Friday. In Oklahoma, dozens of school districts have announced closures for Monday, and many Kentucky schools are closed as well. The Kentucky teachers are protesting a sudden …

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Momentive Workers Strike As Trump’s “Jobs Forum” Pick Cuts Wages

Chicago Teachers Are on the Verge of Striking—This Is Why

Leave a Comment / Teachers, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Chicago teachers will likely take to the streets early Tuesday in an escalation of their campaign to defend their jobs and improve the education of the students and the communities they serve. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has said it will strike if no deal is reached by midnight. Four years ago, the CTU won a …

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After Contract Talks Break Down, Nearly 40,000 Verizon Workers Set To Strike Tomorrow

Leave a Comment / worker's rights / By max cyril

Leaders of the unions representing nearly 40,000 Verizon telecommunications workers in big cities and small towns from Maine to Virginia announced today that their members would be going on strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday without “a major change in direction” in contract talks now underway, according to Communications Workers of America (CWA) president Chris Shelton. …

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Altoona Nurses Strike As UPMC Continues to Put Profits Before Patients

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SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania‘s registered nurses at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Altoona are on a one-day strike today. UPMC rejected proposals for better staffing ratios, which is shown to improve patient outcomes, decrease the length of hospital stays, and increase patient satisfaction scores, among other issues. “It comes down to patient care and safety,” …

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Labor Day 2013: Things Have Never Looked Worse for Workers—Or Brighter

Leave a Comment / Labor Day / By max cyril

Four young men breakdancing on the Federal Plaza last week in downtown Chicago say a lot about why this Labor Day provides occasion for both celebration and protest. The dancers—black, white, Latino, all of them putting on a spectacular show—were fast food and retail workers on strike for the day for $15 an …

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Strike in Colombia Highlights Free Trade Failure

Leave a Comment / Free Trade, unions / By max cyril

There is a big strike in Colombia, and you probably don’t know about it. Farmers and others are protesting over a variety of grievances including the devastating effect of free-trade agreements, privatization and inequality-driven poverty. Corporate-owned American media is not covering it. These trade agreements make the really rich really richer while outsourcing jobs to …

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Twelve arrested in protest of Walmart firings and retaliation against activists

Leave a Comment / Wal Mart / By max cyril

Beginning shortly after the early June strike by around 100 Walmart workers, 20 of the strikers were fired and another 50 were disciplined in retaliation; Walmart basically treated their absences as if they’d been playing hooky rather than engaging in legally protected concerted activity. Now, in a protest against that retaliation, 9 former and one current Walmart …

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We Cannot Build a Strong, Equitable Economy on Low-Paying Jobs

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, SEIU, Uncategorized, wages / By max cyril

What started out last fall as a one-day walkout at fast-food restaurants to protest poverty-level wages and stand up for basic human dignity has transformed into a movement that has captured the public interest. I’ve been privileged, especially in recent weeks, to talk to institutional partners, policymakers and media about why low-wage workers across the …

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