This Labor Day, we’re standing in solidarity with the ongoing labor battles and picket lines happening across the country. Here are just a few of the many instances of workers in this country rising up to demand more rights & dignity on the job:
All U.S. Nabisco factories are still on strike. Workers at Nabisco sites in 5 states are protesting cuts to wages, pensions, and overtime pay. #NoContractNoSnacks
Over a thousand @MineWorkers at Warrior Met Coal have been on strike since April 1.
They’re demanding a new, fair contract that restores the wages & benefits they gave up 6 years ago in order to save the coal company from bankruptcy.
Nearly 700 nurses have been on strike at St. Vincent Hospital for over 6 months. It’s the longest nurses’ strike in MA history.
The @MassNurses say that Tenet Healthcare, which owns St. Vincent, has been short-staffing the hospital just to turn a profit.
Amazon workers on Staten Island are taking on the corporate goliath and organizing four NYC warehouses to form @amazonlabor. They’ve already signed up over one thousand workers.
In a huge recent labor victory, workers from Colectivo Coffee won their union election and formed the largest cafe workers union in the United States.
They now enter into negotiations with Colectivo management to bargain for a fair first contract.
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Companies are increasingly trapping workers with a move that looks a lot like indentured servitude.
The company will pay for training, then when you want to leave the job, the corporation will say you owe thousands of dollars for that training — unless you stay on the job.
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The following article describes a nurse who switched to a better-paying job at a nearby hospital only to wind up with debt collectors at her door demanding she pay her former employer back for a loan she didn’t know she owed.
And a cargo pilot who faced a $20,000 lawsuit over job-training expenses at a commercial airline that had just fired him for refusing to fly a plane under unsafe conditions.
On June 17, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to sell and rezone land for the data center.
The so-called ‘Project Blue’ was immediately marked by a lack of transparency, with the final user hidden and public officials bound by non-disclosure agreements.
Florida Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis are preparing the most sweeping set of anti-worker bills in the country — rolling back labor protections for kids as young as 14 and even classifying older workers as interns or apprentices.
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In 2020, more than 60% of Florida voters backed an amendment raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. But now, in an anti-democratic move, legislators could get around the will of the people.
One senator asked bill sponsor Jonathan Martin in March how the bill would stop companies, like major Florida grocery store Publix, from exploiting the law to pay workers less.
Martin said of the impacted workers: “They could quit.”
Two people were tased at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall in Georgia, where furious constituents demanded answers about insider trading, DOGE, and more.
The Congresswoman faces multiple allegations of profiting from market manipulation. What’s really going on? 🧵
MTG bought between $10K-$150K worth of stock the same day that Trump announced his 90-day pause on tariffs.
The day before, she purchased between $11K-165K in stocks and sold between $50K-100K in Treasury bills.
The stocks? Primarily companies that were most affected by the tariff announcement.
*Signs an illegal executive order. This is called breaking a union contract.
It’s an attack on workers everywhere. Thread.
Last night Trump signed an executive order instructing 18 agencies to illegally terminate their collective bargaining agreements with 700,000 union workers.
Trump is falsely claiming that is move is about national security, but agencies like the Department of Health and Human services are included. thehill.com/homenews/admin…