Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.
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Workers Funding Other Workers’ Misery
Billions of dollars in public pension fund money flow to private equity–owned firms that union-bust, violate labor laws, and put workers’ safety at risk.
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Damp Labor Autumn
Hollywood screenwriters won their strike, while the UAW strike is ramping up. What’s next?
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COLAs Are Great, but Woefully Insufficient
Adjusting wages to the rising costs of living, as the UAW is demanding, is necessary, but the gap between investment income and wages will still keep rising.
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What the Writers Won
The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
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A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
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The UAW Strike Could Redefine Biden and the Democrats. Good.
President Biden joined striking workers on the picket line. Former ‘car czar’ Steve Rattner is furious.
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Biden on the Picket Line, Trump in the Wings
The all-but-certain presidential nominees court the nation’s blue-collar voters.
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UAW Workers in California Stand Up as Strike Expands
Strikers have twice had guns pulled on them by non-union truckers seeking to use a distribution center to move auto parts to dealers.
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Working-Class Joe
Today on TAP: Biden is truly helping working people. What will it take for more voters to get that?
