December 4, 2023
On Staten Island, Amazon supervisors usually confer with them as “coaching.” At an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, supervisors confer with them ambiguously as “conferences.” Amazon says they’re formally “small group conferences.” No matter Amazon calls them, the anti-union periods that the corporate has held for workers this yr have been a part of an effort
READ MOREThe carpenters and the safety guards on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork had lengthy been members of a union when in 2020, staff from departments throughout the museum — curators, conservators, educators and librarians — voted to create one of many largest museum unions within the nation with almost 250 members. Staff on the Whitney
READ MOREMassive unions are experimenting, too. This month, 1000’s of staff at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will start voting on whether or not to hitch the Retail Wholesale and Division Retailer Union. The Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters desires to assist Amazon’s warehouse and transportation staff win a union contract. There’s an urgency right this
READ MORETOKYO — Girls have by no means discovered a welcoming residence in Japan’s labor unions. Sexism is entrenched. Issues like wage discrimination and sexual harassment at work are sometimes ignored. Many ladies, missing a voice, have given up on the motion. So when Japan’s largest affiliation of labor unions, generally known as Rengo, appointed its
READ MOREKaiser Permanente, the well being care supplier and hospital community, reached a tentative settlement on Saturday with a coalition of unions representing employees in California, Oregon and different states that can avert a strike of greater than 30,000 employees scheduled to start on Monday. The four-year settlement would supply employees with wage will increase and
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