Picketing began Wednesday at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 healthcare workers went on strike in Virginia, California and three other states over wages and staffing shortages, marking the latest major labor unrest in the United States. Kaiser Permanente is one of the country’s larger insurers and healthcare system operators, …
Read More »Number of US Workers on Strike Spiked 50% in 2022, Mostly in Service Sector
More than 120,000 workers went on strike or stopped working in 2022 amid the tightest labor market since 1969, according to US Labor Department data released Wednesday. That’s a 50 percent increase from 2021, during which 80,700 workers stopped working, and more than a four-fold increase from 2020 when the …
Read More »Google & Amazon workers protest billion-dollar contract with Israel
Google and Amazon workers took to the streets to protest against their Companies’ $1.2 Billion AI Contract With Israel. Tens of Google and Amazon employees organised protests in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Durham, including the tech giants’ headquarters, calling for their employers to cancel their contract with the …
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