Tag: collective bargaining
Los Angeles Teachers Prepare to Strike: An Organizing Drive Long in the Making
LA teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, should contract negotiations fail. Each side accusing the other of illegal tactics. However, teachers say this is not mainly about wages, but about improving children’s education. Jane…
Chicago Hotel Workers Strike for Decent Health Care
Chicago’s UNITE HERE union is engaged in one of the largest labor actions in the city in decades, for a new contract for service workers at 30 hotels, with simultaneous strikes at 26 of these….
German Amazon Workers Demand a Collective Contract
Every Christmas the German workers of Amazon attempt to strike and disrupt the company’s profits during the busiest time of the year. The management uses bonuses to tempt workers to break the strike. Visit https://therealnews.com…
Ten years after Act 10, Wisconsin teachers are still fighting to rebuild from the rubble
Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin became a “right to work” state, and public sector unions were gutted with the passage of Act 10 in 2011. But teachers like Maricela Aguilar Monroy haven’t stopped fighting….
