Tag: Labor strikes
The Chicago Teachers Union Wants to End Student Homelessness at the Bargaining Table
March 25, 2024
In its next contract, the CTU is demanding housing for up to 15,000 unhoused students.
At the high school
What We Can Learn From Minnesota Unions’ Big Contract Wins
Safe Staffing Is Front and Center in Another Huge Healthcare Strike
Scenes from Hollywood’s Hot Labor Summer
“Jump the fuck up!” Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, instructed the crowd outside the gates of Paramount. Morello, who wore his signature red bandana around his neck, was strumming “This Land Is Your Land,” to rev up the morning’s picketers. Everyone raised a fist and jumped the fuck up, singing, “This land was made for you and me!” The Writers Guild of America was on day one hundred and three of its strike against the Hollywood
The Case for More Strikes
A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage | The New Yorker
“Black Mirror,” the anthology series best known for dreaming up dystopian uses for near-future technology, took aim at its own network in the timeliest episode of its most recent season. Settling on her couch after a difficult stretch at work, a woman named Joan (Annie Murphy) logs on to Streamberry, a barely veiled stand-in for Netflix, and stumbles upon a TV show based on the events of her day: “Joan Is Awful,” starring Salma Hayek. The program proceeds to ruin
Lisa Rinna calls on SAG-AFTRA reality stars to ‘boycott’ BravoCon
Lisa Rinna wants Bravo’s reality stars to join Bethenny Frankel in her fight for fair wages by not participating in the TV network’s annual fan convention, BravoCon.
“Every @Sag/aftra [member] who is on a Bravo show should boycott Bravocon,” the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum wrote via her Instagram Stories earlier this week.
“You want them to star to take you seriously and pay you the money you deserve? Then start a reality show union per Bethenny.”
She concluded,
The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers
How UPS and the Teamsters Staved Off a Strike—for Now
There was a time when it might have been useful to start this story by tracing the journey of a single cardboard box. I would explain that the air fryer or couch or deeply discounted jeans you recently bought online were made and packaged in Asia, then moved by boat and container truck to a warehouse not far from where you live. I would explain that to travel the last few miles from the warehouse to your home, the box