Labor Week For August 4, 2023

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

 

Labour minister threatens possibility of imposed agreement after B.C. port workers reject latest deal

 

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

 

Instacart just slashed pay for delivery drivers — from a minimum of $7 per order to $4. Now they're more reliant on your tips.

 

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

 

NLWU Bargaining Blog 7.31.23

 

Studios Seek To Reopen Talks With WGA On Friday

 

NYC Council Unanimously Passes Resolutions Supporting SAG-AFTRA, WGA Strikes: ‘Bob Better Sell That Yacht Quick!’

 

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

 

GM's electric vehicle arm Ultium says it won't recognize its workers under the same union contract as ordinary GM employees

 

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

 

Grindr retaliated against employees for trying to unionize by forcing them back to the office, labor complaint alleges

 

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

 

WGA East President Michael Winship Will Not Run for Re-Election: ‘Time Has Come for Me to Pass Responsibility to the New Generation’

 

Workers at companies that tested out a 4-day workweek are happier and more efficient — and firms made more money. One lawmaker says it's 'here to stay.'

 

https://aflcio.org/paywatch

 

StationsMudList.org

 

Fact Check Team: Which industries are being threatened by the rise of AI?

 

Workers are mad as hell this summer

 

‘To them, we are like robots. The things that make us human are ground out of you’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon

 

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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