Walmart-Contracted Warehouse Workers Go on Strike
Workers at a major Walmart-contracted warehouse in Riverside County went on strike Wednesday morning. They are protesting what they say are unfair labor practices that they have faced on the job after...
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Pico Rivera Rally Supports Walmart Strikers
“Good morning, everyone. My name is Venanzi Luna and I’m on strike.” With those words, today’s rally at the Pico Rivera Walmart made history as the first ever strike of Walmart workers in the United...
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Teamsters Win Election at Runaway Company in Visalia
On February 14, 68 employees of VWR in Visalia voted affirmatively to join Teamsters Local 948 in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. The election punctuates a very high...
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‘Today I Went on Strike’ — A Strike Fund Appeal
Marisol Echeverria and her family. I am a single mother of four. Every day my heart aches with worry about my kids and their futures. Today I went on strike to protest retaliation. I did it for my...
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Eyewitness: Working Inside an Inland Empire Warehouse
(This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. It first appeared on The Nation’s website and is republished with permission.) The call from the temp...
View ArticleGovernor Brown Gets Bill to Help Warehouse Workers
For hundreds of warehouse workers like Daniel Lopez of Riverside, working in unsafe conditions for up to 16 hours a day, for months at a time, is not uncommon. Asking for safe and clean working...
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WalMarch: Warehouse Workers to March for Safe Jobs
Warehouse workers will embark Thursday, September 13, on a 50-mile protest march. Warehouse Workers United says the objective is “to urge Walmart to eliminate illegal and inhumane working conditions in...
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Speedups 2.0: Tailor-made for Taylorism
I recently spoke to the leader of the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents Los Angeles janitors, about some startling information I had heard earlier...
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