Labor and strikes

On January 10, in spite of cold and windy conditions, hundreds of union workers and their supporters gathered outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., to protest the current federal government shutdown. A coalition of more […]

Los Angeles — All eyes are on the impending strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).  As in the rest of the U.S., teachers and other school workers are underpaid and public schools are in shambles. The […]

Black lung disease is a terrible way to die. Coal miners’ lungs become crusty and useless, according to Dr. Robert Cohen, a pulmonologist at the University of Illinois. Towards the end, Dr. Cohen told National […]

20 Diciembre – Después de veinte meses de negociaciones con Unified School District (LAUSD) de Los Ángeles y sin haber tenido un contrato por todo un año, 35,000 miembros del United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) […]

December 20 — After negotiating with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for 20 months, and without a contract for a year, 35,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have set a strike date […]

Hundreds of union members and their supporters rallied in Boston in solidarity with 1,250 National Grid gas workers who have been locked out of their jobs for nearly six months. The lockout began after the […]

Part 1: Robotics on steroids It was still dark driving to work on Saturday, Nov. 3. That’s when I heard on the news that part of an Amazon warehouse had collapsed. Two workers had been […]