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Is Target Doing Right by its Employees?
Employees at a Baltimore County Target lead an action to bring attention to claims of racism, sexism, and ableism by managers Visit http://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at http://therealnews.com/donate….
Nurses say Union Will Help Hold Hopkins Accountable to the Community
Johns Hopkins nurses issued a series of damming reports they say reveals why a union is needed to improve patient safety and community commitment Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by…
Union Leads West Coast Port Shutdown On Juneteenth
Former political prisoner Arthur League talks about the ILWU shutdown and the campaign to free Black political prisoners, some of whom have been imprisoned for over 50 years. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois Director/Video Editor: Cameron…
UAW strike enters 3rd week, SAG-AFTRA resumes negotiations
SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios resumed negotiations Monday, a week after the WGA reached a deal to end their strike. Meanwhile, the auto workers strike is now in its third week, but the UAW was able…
The union fight at Amazon is a fight for Black lives
In the latest installment of our special series “Battleground Bessemer,” TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Joshua Brewer of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Mid-South Council. Brewer is one of the…
Health care workers strike, with 75,000 walking off the job Wednesday
About 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers launched a strike on Wednesday at hospitals and medical centers across five states and Washington, D.C., the largest walkout by health care workers in U.S. history. Tina Reed, a senior…
Ten years after Act 10, Wisconsin teachers are still fighting to rebuild from the rubble
Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin became a “right to work” state, and public sector unions were gutted with the passage of Act 10 in 2011. But teachers like Maricela Aguilar Monroy haven’t stopped fighting….
Organize students, organize everyone, and fight like hell
In the years following the Great Recession, Republican Gov. Scott Walker led an all-out assault on unions and public sector workers in Wisconsin. In response, teachers, students, farmers, and workers of all stripes descended on…
Baltimore museum workers are fighting for a ‘wall-to-wall’ union
In this video installment of Battleground Baltimore, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Laura Albans and Matt Papich, two workers at the renowned Baltimore Museum of Art who are involved in a crucial unionization…
SAG-AFTRA strike surpasses 80 days as talks resume
SAG-AFTRA union members have been on the picket lines since mid-July and as talks resume with executives, striking actors continue to push for better pay and artificial intelligence protections. Jennifer Van Dyck, a SAG-AFTRA member,…
Kaiser Permanente strike enters third day
The strike involving Kaiser Permanente employees across the U.S. entered its third day on Friday. The union representing the health care workers authorized the three-day walkout that began Wednesday morning in several states and Washington,…
Howard University faculty call off strike, win tentative agreement
Hundreds of non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct faculty at Howard University, one of the most storied higher education institutions in the US, have been fighting for nearly four years to negotiate their first union contract with…
Why Starbucks workers are unionizing around the US
The rank-and-file effort to unionize Starbucks stores around the United States is one of the most head-spinningly historic worker-led movements in our generation. Since the Elmwood Avenue store in Buffalo, New York, made history by…
LA strippers are fighting for a union
On March 18, dancers working at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, presented a petition to the owners of the club “demanding an end to retaliatory firings and bad club policies…
Illinois Ironworkers LAID OFF after unionizing
On Sept. 7, 2021, after a majority of employees had formally expressed interest in unionizing, workers at G&D Integrated LLC—a transportation, logistics, warehousing, and supply chain services company in Central Illinois—marched on their boss together…
Starbucks escalates war on unions with store closures
The union wave is hitting coffee chains big and small, but the bosses aren’t going down without a fight. In June, after workers there voted overwhelmingly to unionize, Starbucks permanently closed the popular College Ave….
Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library workers move to unionize
Employees of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library system have announced their intention to unionize, citing better pay, benefits for all, and greater employee input into working conditions as their chief motivations. Seeking voluntary recognition from…
Fired Amazon union organizer: “We’re not able to feed ourselves”
Multiple pro-union Amazon workers have been fired recently in suspected acts of retaliation and union busting from the company. Albert Elliot, a former Amazon employee and organizer with the rank-and-file group Carolina Amazonians United for…
Fired construction workers speak out against Alba Demolition
Read a translated transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/this-nyc-construction-union-is-reaching-out-to-undocumented-and-non-union-workers-the-bosses-dont-like-it Many workplaces are marked by a real tension between different types of workers: undocumented vs. citizens, union vs. non-union, and more. New York City’s Construction and General…
Belgian trade unions march against energy costs and inflation
In the midst of freezing temperatures, thousands of workers from throughout Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to demand a cap on soaring energy prices, higher wages, and more bargaining power for trade unions….
New anti-union law in UK takes aim at strike wave
Read the transcript of this interview: After a two-day work stoppage last week by Britain’s rail workers, Parliament is threatening new legislation that would require striking workers to continue providing a “minimum service” while striking….
UC student employee union president explains UC strike
The largest strike in the US since 2019 is currently underway across University of California campuses. 48,000 teaching assistants, postdocs, researchers and graders on the front lines of teaching and research at California’s prestigious public…
Nevada’s UNITE HERE union canvassers mobilize for 2022 elections
Things are heating up in Nevada ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8. A Republican victory in the state could end up flipping the Senate, and undermine the Democrats’ federal agenda for years…
What it’s like to be an ambulance driver in Rishi Sunak’s UK
Spiking inflation is generating a global cost of living crisis, and Britain is no exception. As workers across industries hit the picket lines to denounce privatization and demand action from the Tory government to raise…
He tried to organize Home Depot’s first union. Then they fired him.
Former Home Depot employee Vince Quiles recounts his experience organizing to form the home improvement retail chain’s first union. The Real News is an independent, viewer-supported, radical media network. Help us expand our in-depth analysis…
Jeff Bezos fails to kill Amazon’s union. Here’s what’s next.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/the-nlrb-ruled-in-favor-of-amazon-union-organizers-whats-next JFK8 worker-organizers Michelle Valentin Nieves, Jordan Flowers, and Gerald Bryson join TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez for a discussion on the fight to unionize Amazon thus far, and what…
What Union Pacific and the media aren’t telling you about the Baker, CA, train derailment
This Feb., Norfolk Southern’s train derailment catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio dragged the decrepit state of the US rail system into the national spotlight. A rash of other railroad catastrophes in recent weeks has only…
