While the Labour Party offers milquetoast solutions to the cost-of-living crisis and displays outright confusion over whether it backs striking workers, the unions are setting the opposition agenda, writes Marcus Barnett.
Strike Wave Rocks Britain
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Largest US Rail Union Rejects White House-Brokered Contract
SMART-TD announced Monday that just over half its members rejected the proposed contract due to restrictions on workers’ ability to make routine medical appointments.
The Case for Democratic Worker Control
The potential of automation to reduce working hours is inconsistent with the profit motives of capitalist companies, writes Alec Stubbs.
UK’s National Health System Gearing Up for Wage Actions
While one major union is currently balloting its members about a job action, the union of the Royal College of Nursing has announced plans to initiate strike action before Christmas at many big hospitals and several other NHS care facilities.
US Labor’s Fortress of Finance
Unions have the resources to deploy to new organizing and growth, writes Chris Bohner. But they are pursuing a defensive financial strategy instead.
Rail Cos. Reject Union’s Demand for Paid Sick Leave
A union spokesman said that rail companies — with more than $10 billion in stock buybacks and dividends in the first six months of 2022 — can easily afford to provide workers with paid leave when they are sick.
Major Rail Union Rejects White House-Brokered Proposal
As the membership of a maintenance-and-construction union reset the countdown to a potential work stoppage, negotiators return to the bargaining table.
Auto Insurance Giant’s Anti-Union Message
In August GEICO sent out an email warning its Buffalo employees that union representatives were visiting workers’ homes and they “had every right to contact the police,” Jonah Furman reports.
Telecom Workers in California Winning Grievance Strikes
Thomas Ham says he and his co-workers have come out of each unfair labor practice strike with a greater sense of power and solidarity.
Unionism in US Keeps Spreading
Home Depot is the latest workplace being organized. While profits at the home-repair chain have broken records during the pandemic, workers at a store in Philadelphia struggle to afford necessities, Jonah Furman reports.