Labor Week

Harold Phillips
Labor Week

Working people around the world are fed up, they’re standing up, and they’re out in the streets. They’re coming together for better wages, working conditions, and a seat at a table... And they’re winning! Each day Harold Phillips pulls together the latest Labor news for members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, and every week he shares the top headlines with you.

Episodes

  1. 08/13/2023

    Labor Week for August 12, 2023

    Thousands of workers swarm the streets of Los Angeles, construction workers are getting a raise thanks to the Biden Administration, and the AMPTP says, “let’s try this one more time."   This is Labor Week for August 12, 2023 – powered by the Labor Radio Podcast Network.   Articles mentioned in this episode:     Thousands of Los Angeles city workers walk off job for 24 hours alleging unfair labor practices    L.A.’s striking hotel workers are being roughed up by employers’ security, union says   Unite HERE 11 Video   Writers Blast Latest AMPTP Efforts to Resume Negotiations: “Insulting and Out-of-Touch”   WGA & AMPTP To Resume Bargaining On Friday   Hollywood strikes' economic impacts are hitting far beyond LA   California Economy Lost $3 Billion in First 100 Days of WGA Strike, Economist Says   SAG-AFTRA Takes Up Bethenny Frankel’s Fight To Unionize Reality Show Contestants & End “Exploitative Practices”   Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel   Statement on CBA negotiations   NRL and players reach pay deal as bitter dispute ends   White House unveils wage rule for federal projects, in win for unions   AFL-CIO: Biden Administration’s Wage Boost for Construction Workers Is a Win for Working People   UAW boss throws wage hike offer by Jeep parent Stellantis in the trash as strike looms: ‘Management’s chosen to spit in our faces’   Workers Caught Coca-Cola Breaking Labour Laws   United Steelworkers secure historic four-year contract at Kumho Tire following lengthy struggle   Meat processor ordered to pay fines after teen lost hand in grinder   Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing   Teamsters Amazon Strike Extends to Central Valley Warehouse   British Columbia port workers ratify contract offer, ending Canada labor dispute   BLET conducting strike authorization vote at NJ Transit   UPS Job Searches Surge After Union Deal Significantly Boosts Wages   (We exceeded Podbean's character limit in the show notes... visit https://www.LaborWeek.org to see the full list of article links.)   Did we miss something in this week's news round-up? Email us at news@laborweek.org or find us on Facebook and Twitter.   Labor Week is produced and edited by Harold Phillips, under a SAG-AFTRA Micropod Agreement.   Our music is from BADiTUDES’ Joe Hill Punk Exposure. Find out more about BADiTUDES at https://www.facebook.com/BADiTUDES/.   Want more Labor Week? Listen to the FULL episode by becoming a show sponsor through our Patreon page.

    35 min
  2. 08/06/2023

    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 —

    23 min

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Working people around the world are fed up, they’re standing up, and they’re out in the streets. They’re coming together for better wages, working conditions, and a seat at a table... And they’re winning! Each day Harold Phillips pulls together the latest Labor news for members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, and every week he shares the top headlines with you.

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