Labor
Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians say California patients still being denied timely care
July 5, 2022State Sen. Scott Weiner: “You can’t give someone a first appointment and then make them wait two or three months for their second and subsequent appointments, because that completely undermines effective mental health treatment.”
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Teamsters: 23,000 freight train engineers voting on strike authorization
July 1, 202223,000 rail freight engineers nationwide are irate at freight railroads’ refusal to discuss workers’ needs and demands.
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‘No Jim Crow in the IWO’: America’s radical Depression-era mutual aid society
July 1, 2022The International Workers Order displayed the power of working-class mutual aid in its time, and stands as an example still today.
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Amazon Labor Union takes its NLRB fight to Phoenix, Arizona
June 30, 2022Accusing the NLRB of mishandling the election in Staten Island, Amazon scored a hearing in another district.
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Low pay forces 10k Atlantic City casino workers to approve strike
June 30, 2022Low pay and—often—short-staffing forced some 10,000 casino workers in Atlantic City, N.J., to vote 96%-4% to authorize a strike. Many could walk July 1.
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