by Justin | May 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Workers across the US —in healthcare, at Amazon, and in other workplaces— are being fired for raising concerns about their own and fellow workers’ health and safety in the COVID-19 pandemic. By last week, the Occupational...
by Justin | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Despite all the evidence that we are nowhere near out of the woods with the coronavirus pandemic, the Detroit automakers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have agreed to restart production at most facilities on May 18. Various part supplier facilities will restart...
by Justin | Apr 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
WorkWeek hears from SEIU 1021 San Francisco General Chapter Chair Brenda Barros and Cheryl Thornton — SEIU 1021 Community Health Center Vice Chair. They discuss the fight for proper PPE and the systemic racism. Next, WorkWeek interviews Amazon worker and striker...
by Justin | Apr 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
UAW Brother Travis Watkins was unjustly fired at the GM-Components Holdings LLC plant in Grand Rapids Michigan on March 18 for informing his fellow workers on a private Facebook page that management was escorting workers out of the plant because they were suspected of...
by Justin | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Travis Watkins, chair of an Auto Workers (UAW) bargaining unit in Wyoming, Michigan was fired March 18. The charge was violating Shop Rule #2: “Assaulting, fighting, threatening, intimidating, coercing, or interfering with employees or supervision.” Turns out the...
by Justin | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Faced with an ongoing corruption scandal that might lead to a government takeover, United Auto Workers President Rory Gamble has presented himself as representing a clean break from the union’s crooked inner circle, someone who can unite a fractured union and restore...
