Kickstarter’s workers have been trying to form a union, and they say that the company fired its most prominent union organizers under the pretense of performance issues, but really in order to get them out of the way and head off the unionization drive.
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Interview with Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue’s labor reporter
Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue‘s labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy.
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Stop & Shop strike convinces 75% of loyal customers to take business elsewhere
Northeastern grocery chain Stop & Shop has been goosing its profits at its workers’ expense, increasing their healthcare costs, reducing company pension contributions, and reducing holiday and Sunday overtime pay; the United Food & Commercial Workers, who organize the Stop & Shop employees called for a strike nearly two weeks ago, and since then, 31,000 workers from 240 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have been off the job.
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Oakland teachers’ union declares total victory after seven-day strike
Well, that didn’t take long: after seven days on strike, the Oakland teacher’s union has received an offer that they say capitulates on every major point at issue in the strike, including the stealth privatization of Oakland schools through vouchers and charter schools.
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After six days, LA teachers settle their strike, wringing huge concessions out of the school district
After six school days on the picket line, more then 30,000 LA public school teachers voted to accept an offer from the nation’s second-largest school district that amounted to a near-total capitulation by management in favor of the teachers’ broad demands: smaller classes; more aides, librarians and counselors; better school maintenance; support for a statewide moratorium on new charter schools; and releasing the cost-of-living-allowances that the state had paid to the LA Unified School District, but which the district had not passed on to the workers for several years, giving every teacher a real-terms pay-cut every year.
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LA teachers’ strike: Charter school teachers walk out, too
LA teachers have walked out, striking in torrential rains, protesting the billionaire-backed privatization movement that wants to hand public school funding to charter schools.
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Global antiquarian bookseller strike brings Amazon to its knees
When Amazon division Abebooks — the largest platform for antiquarian booksellers in the world — announced it would blacklist stores in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, South Korea and Russia, citing nebulous transaction-processing difficulties — 600 antiquarian booksellers in 27 countries went on strike, withdrawing their 4,000,000 titles from Abebooks.
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Chicago is facing its first citywide hotel strike since 1903
Chicago’s tourism sector is booming, with a record 55,000,000 visitors to the city last year, and revenue up this year by 10.4% to $1.45B: but workers aren’t seeing those gains.
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Developers are worth more to tech companies than cash
Researchers from Stripe surveyed “thousands of C-level executives and developers across five different countries” and found that companies finding hiring qualified developers harder than anything else — even raising cash (“Access to developers is a bigger constraint than access to capital”).
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To rescue journalism, journalists must collaborate to defend free expression, not merely condemning Trump
Dan Gillmor (previously) writes that journalism is at a crisis point, as authoritarian politicians (including, but not limited to, Trump) step up their attacks on the free press, even assassinating their sharpest critics.
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