by Justin | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
The wildcat grading strike for a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) waged by graduate student workers at UC-Santa Cruz since December 2019 came to an effective close at the end of last month. In an email to senior administration and fellow grads, strikers declared that...
by Justin | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Lawyers and other Bronx Defenders employees are planning to unionize, potentially adding to the growing ranks of legal services nonprofits that have organized in recent years. Workers at the public defense non-profit, which represents low income people in New York,...
by Justin | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our letter carriers need your help to continue delivering for America. Take a stand and demand action from Washington to help our letter carriers! A recent poll found that the majority of voters support providing financial support to USPS: It’s Nearly Unanimous Nearly...
by Justin | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
What do you do if your union is controlled by a Concession Caucus — a bureaucracy devoted to helping the Corps eliminate jobs? Direct action solidarity. In my book, obeying an order to help management eliminate a union job is no different than crossing a picket line....
by Justin | May 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The California National Guard provided military surveillance equipment to the University of California at Santa Cruz’s Police Department in order to surveil and police the UC Santa Cruz graduate student wildcat strike earlier this year, documents...
by Justin | May 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
“On March 16th, I received a few phone calls from inside the plant. Some workers were telling me that a couple of members had been driven out on a medical cart by security wearing facemasks and that they were being removed from the plant for suspected Covid-19...
