Yellow Trucking is shutting down, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 272-to-1 last year, and the studios are FINALLY going back to the table with the Writers Guild. This is Labor Week for August 4th 2023 – powered by the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
Yellow Lays Off a Swath of Its Workforce, Winds Down Operations
TEAMSTERS NOTIFIED THAT YELLOW CORP. OPERATING COMPANIES HAVE CLOSED
The Yellow trucking company meltdown, explained
TEAMSTERS AT TFORCE FREIGHT RATIFY NATIONAL AGREEMENT
Starbucks News:
https://vxtwitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1686891849917890560
https://twitter.com/WorkersUnitedMA/status/1685328956394704898?s=20
https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1686873113555075079
https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1687203603906449408
Long Island Starbucks Workers March on Boss Who Fired One of Their Own
https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1687657695426564096
6 CT restaurants owe their workers pay, Dept. of Labor says
Union workers at the Convention Center BV launched our first ULP strike of the year
Solid State Books Workers Ratify First Union Contract
Tentative union agreement averts strike at 6 Twin Cities area Kowalski’s grocery stores
Kowalski’s Markets workers to get $2-$4 per hour raises under new contract
Powell’s Workers, Fed Up With “Poverty Wages,” Move Closer to a Strike
Uber-Backed Group to Reboot Gig-Worker Ballot Initiative in Massachusetts
https://twitter.com/IWOrganizing/status/1686110039038128135?t=yoXaV3JbhRRv8e_eGPQNNg&s=19
Labor’s plan for fighting climate change and creating jobs in Washington
Brooklyn Defender Services union pickets after 2 years without contract
Teachers hold large-scale rally in central Seoul
Studios Seek To Reopen Talks With WGA On Friday
NBCUniversal Partially Restores Sidewalk for Writers Guild, SAG-AFTRA Picketers
IATSE to Host L.A. Food Drive to Support Entertainment Workers Amid Strikes
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2X79ipCRS/
THE BASEMENT ESCAPE ROOM ORGANIZES WITH ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
TSA Officers Celebrate First Paycheck with 31% Raise – Largest in TSA History
San Jose city employees begin vote on whether to authorize strike
Portsmouth talks about collective bargaining: Firefighters, EMTs try to secure rights for employees
A done deal: Iqaluit Housing Authority, striking workers ratify 5-year contract
200 Loretto Hospital workers begin strike
Confluence Health Mares Campus nurses voted to unionize
GM criticizes autoworkers union’s contract demands
Nike told to compensate Cambodia workers following factory closure
Amalgamated Sugar Company union workers preparing for potential strike
eBay charged with multiple unfair labor complaints in struggle with its first union
National Labor Relations Board orders Colchester software company to reinstate 4 employees
https://twitter.com/forthemanyunion/status/1686060145279746048?s=20
https://twitter.com/MazonUnited/status/1686536600916754432
Nigeria’s labour unions suspend strike after meeting president
Roberts re-elected UMWA President
Fact Check Team: Which industries are being threatened by the rise of AI?
Workers are mad as hell this summer
https://twitter.com/ILRLaborAction/status/1686015258282819586?t=vyHP_0WjCyM6jUvoaqa5yA&s=19
Alabama’s only union talk show, podcast sees surge amid national labor movement
https://libcom.org/article/real-del-monte-miners-strike-1766
https://fxtwitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1687463375188480000?t=Rmexlk84WMFFEJtkW6gT9Q&s=19
NATCA HONORS THE 42ND ANNIVERSARY OF PATCO STRIKE
Starbucks United Adopt A Store Day of Action
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