Troublemakers Blog
May 29, 2020 / Saurav Sarkar
The organized labor movement has begun swinging into action to support protests against the racist police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
Floyd was filmed being suffocated to death under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday in a video that reverberated around the country and has sent the Twin Cities into turmoil. »
May 27, 2020 /
UPDATE, September 18: In a mail-in ballot election, registered nurses at Mission Hospital voted 70 percent in favor of joining National Nurses United. »
May 27, 2020 /
When the Orlando Sentinel’s newsroom employees won our election in May with 81 percent voting for The NewsGuild, the organizing committee had not seen our co-workers in person for nearly two months. The election was conducted entirely by mail. Supporters watched the vote count at the National Labor Relations Board’s Tampa office by videoconference. »
May 27, 2020 / Samantha Winslow
One reason today's horrific recession feels so familiar is that we're still digging out of the last one. When the housing market collapsed in 2008, 10 million people lost their homes and 9 million lost their jobs. »
May 26, 2020 / Jane Slaughter
Workers this spring were forced to find new ways to assert their rights when faced with a deadly foe and employers indifferent to their lives. »
May 22, 2020 / Chris Brooks
A video taken by an auto worker and obtained exclusively by Labor Notes shows a rowdy and chaotic scene inside Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan Truck Plant on Wednesday as workers refused to work after a co-worker tested positive for COVID-19.
Some stood by the lines; others simply went home. »
May 22, 2020 /
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May 15, 2020 /
Much of the criticism of new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has centered on his $2 million in contributions to the Trump campaign and other Republican causes since 2016. DeJoy is in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte. »
May 13, 2020 /
Portuguese call center workers forced to come to work during the pandemic struck in March, demanding to switch to teleworking at home without loss of pay. Some workers refused to go to work, some took sick leave, some asked for vacation days, and others appeared at the call centers but refused to log in. »