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The Choice for Working People is Joe Biden

There are countless reasons against voting for Donald Trump in November.

General Government Agreement Reached, Team Recommends Yes Vote

Thursday after 10 p.m., the WFSE General Government Bargaining Team reached a 2021-2023 tentative agreement with the state of Washington that secures a future for 30,000 + state workers and the mil

COVID-19 deaths lower in unionized nursing homes

Nursing homes have been especially hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Labor Notes

  • Pandemic Spurs Nashville Restaurant Workers to Organize
    Restaurant workers in Nashville are experimenting with new forms of organizing in response to years of management abuse and the new threat of COVID-19. In early March, just as the pandemic was looming on the horizon, but before any government-mandated shutdowns, a chef in the city’s rapidly growing restaurant industry started a Facebook page called “Nashville Hospitality Union.” Soon more than 1,000 restaurant workers had joined the page. — Sep 23
  • Return of the Lockout: Uber and Lyft Try to Strong-Arm California
    Return of the Lockout: Uber and Lyft Try to Strong-Arm California September 23, 2020 / Nelson Lichtenstein In August a California court ordered Uber and Lyft to reclassify more than 100,000 drivers as regular employees. The two companies, which depend on a business model that defines drivers as independent contractors, got the decision lifted for at least a few months. But in the meantime their threat to shut down operations in California—and thereby fire thousands of drivers while ending service to millions of customers—raises the question: What do we call this extraordinary corporate stratagem? A public relations gambit? A pressure tactic? Blackmail? A capital strike? — Sep 23
  • Brooklyn Teachers Demand Full Remote Instruction
    Outside the gates of Brooklyn’s P.S. 139 hung a poster with a report card for the Department of Education. Teachers frustrated with the ever-evolving plan to reopen schools had issued the DOE the following grades:
    Timely submission of directives? F Using data to drive decisions? F Keeping stakeholders prepared and informed? F Wasting time, energy, resources, driving us crazy? A+.
     — Sep 22
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