Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US (www.theverge.com)
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Screen Actors Guild ends negotiations over new contract with studios
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“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...
“Those customers could have had guns on them they could have decided to start shooting. Just out of nowhere just started pouring stuff into their containers and just throw it behind the counters....
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They say AEGIS-CWA is the 'largest multi-department union of organized workers in the entire gaming industry
Felix Allen, a recently fired New Orleans-based organizer at Lowe's, recounts the measures taken by his employer to prevent his store from unionizing.
When faced with the prospects of actually paying workers a far wage, these companies are doing everything they can to prevent it. Says a lot about their priorities.
Yet another article about this.
Wage inequity is a global issue!
The Teamsters said Wednesday that high-stakes talks with UPS over a new contract for more than 340,000 workers have fallen apart after the company presented an offer that union negotiators deemed badly inadequate.
Many of those who have left the workplace are being forced to return by the cost of living crisis to bolster their finances.
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) – Thousands of workers at hotels across Los Angeles County officially walked off the job on Sunday, starting a labor strike as they demand higher wages and better benefits....
On 6/30/23, UPS and the Teamsters have resumed contract negotiations....
Attached: 1 video If you have a hard time understanding where the shortage of empathy for the sub crew comes from. here is a pretty good explainer.
Unionizing every workplace possible grows the labor movement with each win. Every fight is important. There is a case to be made that the current union drive at Amazon’s KCVG airhub in Kentucky is one that will have the biggest impact to the success of future unionization efforts....
The typical U.S. family earns about $71,000 per year, according to the Census. Yet, the average American believes a family needs at least $85,000 in annual household income to get by, according to a recent Gallup poll....