Tag Archives: Labor
Strikes Increased In 2022 As Workers Wielded Their Leverage – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Workers went on strike in growing numbers last year as they took advantage of a tight labor market and pressed employers for better pay and working conditions, two new sets of data suggest. Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday show nearly 121,000 workers took part in 23 large strikes that…
Airline Bills Pilot $20,000 For Quitting Her Job – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Kate Fredericks quit her job flying for the cargo airline Ameriflight in late November 2021, six and a half months into her stint as a pilot based out of Puerto Rico. It was the most expensive resignation she could imagine. Ameriflight told Fredericks she owed the company $20,000 for the cost of her training…
Medieval Times Strike Forces Company To Fly In New Knights – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Unionized workers at Medieval Times’ castle in Buena Park, California, launched a surprise strike against their employer last Saturday afternoon, just ahead of the day’s second performance. The dinner-theater chain managed to put on its show, but not without some serious scrambling as workers headed to the picket line. According to four workers from…
Packers Sanitation Had 102 Kids Working In Meatpacking Plants – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The Labor Department said Friday that investigators found Packers Sanitation Services Inc. had employed more than 100 minors at 13 meat processing facilities across eight states, and that the children were cleaning dangerous industrial equipment using hazardous chemicals. Officials said they found at least three children had been injured while working for the company,…
TikTok Bans Medieval Times Union Account Following Trademark Complaint – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Erin Zapcic woke up Saturday morning to some unwelcome notifications on social media. Zapcic, an actor who plays a queen at Medieval Times in Buena Park, California, also helps run Facebook and TikTok accounts for the new union representing workers at her castle. The notification from Facebook concerned a post by the union account…
Amazon’s Anti-Union Consultant Broke The Law, Judge Rules – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] A judge at the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision Monday in a case where workers accused Amazon of illegally suppressing a union campaign in Staten Island, New York ― finding that the online retail giant violated the law on three occasions as it tried to persuade workers not to unionize during 2021…
Starbucks Union Leaders Were Illegally Fired, Labor Board Rules – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Starbucks broke the law by firing two union leaders, making illegal threats and surveilling baristas who agitated for better working conditions in Philadelphia, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Monday. The three-member panel’s decision affirms a judge’s findings in 2021 that the coffee chain violated employees’ rights repeatedly in late 2019 and early 2020,…
Amazon Labor Union’s Victory At JFK8 Warehouse Now Official – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The upstart Amazon Labor Union made history when it won a union election at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island last spring, the first labor group in the U.S. to do so. But its groundbreaking victory was only just made official this week, more than nine months after the ballots were counted and the…
Blank Street Coffee Workers Hope To Unionize – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The upstart chain Blank Street Coffee has expanded with startling speed since opening its first location in Brooklyn in 2020. In less than three years, the venture capital-backed company has unveiled roughly 60 stores serving automated espressos, most in New York City with additional locations in London, Boston and Washington, D.C. Last August The…
Dozens Of Kids Were Cleaning Midwest Meatpacking Plants, Labor Department Finds – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] The Labor Department says a sanitation contractor employed dozens of children in dangerous roles at meatpacking plants in Nebraska and Minnesota. The agency went to federal court on Wednesday seeking an injunction against Packer’s Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), alleging at least 31 kids had worked for the company in “oppressive child labor.” Officials say…
Amazon To Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees – Heemang Parmar
New York Community Bank To Buy Failed Signature Bank – Heemang Parmar
The U.S. Is On The Cusp Of A New Nuclear Energy Milestone — And Debate – Heemang Parmar
Parent Of Silicon Valley Bank Seeks Bankruptcy Protection – Heemang Parmar
U.S. Stocks Fall As Bank Worries Spread To Europe – Heemang Parmar
Cleveland REI Workers Form Union, Adding Fuel To Labor Effort – Heemang Parmar