This week, 10,000 John Deere workers ended their strike after six weeks. It was also a really good week for unions on TV, between a typically sharp John Oliver segment explaining union-busting, and a Tonight Show performance by Tom Morello (featuring grandson) in which Morello highlighted workers on strike across the country, offering them high-profile solidarity.
Watch both videos. Share them with your friends and family. Support the unions on strike and the workers faced with union-busting tactics alike.
And more labor news:
● Teamsters voted for new leadership for the first time in decades, with the retirement of James P. Hoffa, the union’s longtime president.
● Without paid leave, Americans like me are draining their savings, writes Marjorie Roberts of Covid Survivors for Change:
I’m now more than 20 months out from when I first contracted Covid, and I still have a hard time breathing. I have completely depleted the savings I had stored up. I have no idea how I’ll ever go back to a job like the one I had before the pandemic, but I can’t afford to be home sick forever either.
And sadly, I’m far from alone. Because the United States is one of the few countries without a federal paid leave policy, many Americans who contracted Covid on the job have had to go into debt or spend all their savings while they attempt to reclaim their health or cope with a loved one’s death, illness or the birth of a child.
● How child care became the most broken business in the United States. Could Build Back Better save it?
● Workers at an Arizona Starbucks are petitioning to form a union.
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