The pole dancers at North Hollywood’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar have been waging a prolonged labor struggle with the bar’s management, and are planning to make history by joining Actors Equity.
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Railroaders across the United States could go on strike as soon as midnight tonight, crippling the nation’s supply chain. How we got to this point rests squarely on decisions the carriers made decades ago.
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Staff at American University have reached a tentative agreement with administration, which combined with Biden’s executive order to forgive up to $20,000 could provide some much-needed relief.
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Workers at Blizzard Albany want to democratize their workplace, seeking improved work-life balance, fair compensation, and improved benefits, as well as open communication between employees and Activision Blizzard King.
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LA restaurant workers at Genwa BBQ have organized a new independent union and signed their first union contract—a major development that will have far-reaching effects for restaurant and immigrant organizing in the Southland.
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In the aftermath of the historic Amazon Labor Union victory at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, workers in Upstate New York are fighting to create a “domino effect” of union activity all across the Empire State.
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Workers at the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research and policy nonprofit, went public with their union on the same day the Supreme Court draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked. Now with state-level abortion restrictions rolling out at a terrifying pace, Guttmacher workers discuss how unions are critical for them, and all reproductive justice workers, to meet the challenges in the fight for abortion.
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A presumption of progressivism associated with consumer cooperatives like REI, given their internal structure predicated upon shared ownership by members who in theory democratically elect a board responsible for governance, appears to elide as well as enable bad behavior and anti-union management, often provoking workers to organize in response.
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An almost century-long fight to bring parity to farmworkers’ labor standards in the state of New York is moving forward following the state’s Wage Board decision on Jan. 28 to lower the overtime threshold from 60 hours per week down to 40, the standard working week in most other industries.
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The United States has averaged a thousand people a day dying from COVID since August and the total number of lives lost is approaching a million. On the same day we set a new national record for COVID cases, Wall Street hit a record high. Labor journalist and NewsGuild organizer Chris Brooks sat down with a group of New York City nurses and teachers to talk about how the institutions they work for are collapsing and what labor activists can do about it.
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Brevard Achievement Center (2004) wasn’t only a loss for disabled workers; the denial of organizing rights and protections to disabled people facilitates the devaluation of the labor of other vulnerable workers, too. However, recent hard-won policy shifts in favor of the rights of people with disabilities provide a unique opportunity for organized labor and the disability rights movement to eliminate this doctrine, preventing its use by future anti-worker administrations and more broadly, expanding the collective power of disabled workers.
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On October 4th of this year, over 98% of IATSE film industry workers across the country voted in favor of authorizing a strike after contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) had stalled. Yet the march of a seemingly unstoppable movement of workers hit its first rocky point when the IATSE bargaining committee returned from negotiations with a tentative agreement that did not include many of the workplace changes the membership demanded. While representatives call the agreements as the best they’ve ever seen, the membership remains split on ratification as of the first day of the approval vote on November 12th.
Aaron Hall, an A/V technician and steward at IATSE Local 107, tells us how the past thirty years of contract negotiations with the film industry bosses at AMPTP, and union leadership’s conduct during them, can help us understand to this current state of division.
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Union workers at the Kellogg’s factory in Landisville, Pa. are in the fourth week of their strike that began on October 5, calling for a new contract that eliminates the current two-tier wage and benefit system that they say has resulted in up to 96-hour work weeks and meager benefits.
Now, with signs of a protracted dispute, Kellogg’s workers are committing to continuing their strike.
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Opposing vaccine mandates directs attention and blame towards the unvaccinated worker who won’t comply, rather than towards the employer who isn’t providing safe working conditions: or the federal government that sees continued, uncontrolled COVID spread and the waves of mass death that go along with it as a nuisance at best.
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Documents obtained by Strikewave show that District Labor Council 744 President William B. Hall served Brown with the petition last Friday, August 20th, and is in the process of organizing support from other members of the Board of Directors. Presidents of DLCs, Chairs of Bargaining Unit Negotiations Committees, and elected statewide executive officers serve on the Board of Directors. According to SEIU Local 1000’s Policy File, the President is required to schedule a meeting upon petition of a majority of Directors.
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Employees at Sanctuary for Families—a New York City nonprofit that provides shelter, legal services, and general support to victims of domestic and gender-based violence—informed management they were unionizing with National Organization for Legal Service Workers (NOLSW) UAW Local 2320 yesterday. Employees cited layoffs, low wages, untenable workloads, lackluster anti-racism initiatives, and little transparency from upper management as reasons for organizing.
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When community organizers for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) tried to organize a union, the organization allegedly reacted by firing two staff members to discourage others involved in the unionization effort. The lesson from this historically pro-labor organization was clear: unions are great for coal miners, but you don’t need one.
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After what one administrative assistant described to Strikewave as a “confusing” year, with internal communications resembling something like “a terrible game of Telephone,” hourly employees of One Medical, a primary care service based in Silicon Valley, announced their intent last month to form a union with Workers United, a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate that represents roughly 80,000 workers across various industries in the United States and Canada.
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Mexican cultural production has historically portrayed domestic workers, particularly indigenous domestic workers, as folkloric martyrs. The reality, however, is far less romantic.
Evidence uncovered by Strikewave reveals questionable campaign activity during the recent SEIU Local 1000 election, which saw long-time incumbent President Yvonne Walker unseated in an upset election loss to Richard Louis Brown. The allegations of vote-buying adds a new dimension to an election already marked by the President-Elect’s controversial views on the role of unions.