| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
About 700 workers walked off the job at a hotel-casino near the Las Vegas Strip Friday morning in what union organizers said would be a 48-hour strike after spending months trying to reach a deal ...
by Associated Press
 4 comments
on Fri May 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
with 52 Recommends
|
|
“We were filming in a safe place, I was wearing my flak jacket and my helmet — even the car I was in had a ‘PRESS’ and ‘TV’ sign marked on it. It was clear that I was a civilian and a journalist. We were targeted,” he told CNN. Those are the words of...
by Munchausen
56 comments
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM PDT
with 168 Recommends
|
|
The tragedy, 110 years ago on Christmas Eve in Italian Hall in Calumet Michigan, must never be forgotten. There were two sides in conflict at the time, the rich mine owners backed by their ruthless strike breakers and the miners striking against...
by CorpFlunky
17 comments
on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 11:22 AM PST
with 59 Recommends
|
|
On Sunday night, I heard on the news that Detroit’s casino workers, who’ve been on strike for a little more than a month now, were close to settling the strikes against their respective casinos. ...
by Alonso del Arte
3 comments
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
|
|
Stand with Starbucks strikers Thursday during "Red Cup Rebellion"
by Progressive Democrats of America
5 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 06:37 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
|
|
Nina Turner's "We Are Somebody" is committed to working class empowerment, just like PDA! Learn all about it! On Sunday November 5th, Nina Turner joined our weekly Town Hall to let the PDA family know about her new project - We Are Somebody - which is...
by Progressive Democrats of America
39 comments
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 06:53 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
|
|
Board members from Hollywood's actors union voted Friday to approve the deal with studios that ended their strike after nearly four months, with the union's leadership touting the gains made in ...
by Associated Press
11 comments
on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 08:36 PM PST
with 66 Recommends
|
|
Missed your favorite actors? After nearly four months of striking, they're coming back. Wednesday's deal between striking actors and studios and streaming services won't immediately restore filming to its full swing. That will take months. But the...
by Associated Press
15 comments
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 06:58 AM PST
with 69 Recommends
|
|
When President Joe Biden joined striking auto workers on the picket lines in September, he took a gamble by making the strongest pro-union show of solidarity of any sitting U.S. president in history ...
by Kerry Eleveld
53 comments
on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 11:30 AM PDT
with 194 Recommends
|
|
On the heels of the tentative agreement with the Ford Motor Company, the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis to end the 44 day strike. The terms appear to be similar to those reached with Ford, but it also includes...
by 728huey
5 comments
on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 03:54 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
|
|
In case you missed this: Just six days after Ohio voters began receiving ballots for the upcoming November election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) canceled 26,666 voter registrations in the state. On Sept. 22, ballots were sent to overseas...
by poopdogcomedy
5 comments
on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 11:39 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
The house always wins. It would only be fair that the dealers and other personnel in a casino be paid accordingly. That hasn’t been the case at any of Detroit’s three casinos, and so the workers ...
by Alonso del Arte
3 comments
on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
|
|
We have a major change in tactics by the UAW. One of the major Ford plants is now out. This particular plant is responsible for some of the most profitable models and represents about 1/6 of Ford’s revenue. The UAW is pressing hard and this mid-week...
by Judeling
3 comments
on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 08:21 PM PDT
with 23 Recommends
|
|
General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis (which owns Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep) have raked in massive profits since the auto industry collapse in the late 2000s, when United Auto Workers (UAW) workers took huge concessions to try to spare the jobs of...
by bgalliance
14 comments
on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 12:03 PM PDT
with 27 Recommends
|
|
Yesterday I talked to a strike captain from the SEIU at the strike. They have no strike fund, they’ve never gone on strike before. A van load of scabs was brought in early in the morning, they’re getting paid 80 dollars an hour to scab. This morning I...
by Somchai
6 comments
on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 06:17 AM PDT
with 10 Recommends
|
|
Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers, who say understaffing is hurting patient care, walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike amid an extraordinary ...
by Associated Press
32 comments
on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 11:07 AM PDT
with 45 Recommends
|
|
If someone has an image I’d be happy to post it with this article. Just link and I’ll do it. Only a brief mention in the paper of record from the night before last and that was incorrect. Nurses are not garbage collectors. I think the people who write...
by Somchai
8 comments
on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 06:28 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
President Joe Biden applauds the agreement the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached with the studios. The broad strokes of the agreement are laid out in a memorandum of agreement (MOA). Alissa Wilkinson for Vox: The exact language of the contract...
by Alonso del Arte
8 comments
on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
|
|
As the United Auto Workers continue their “stand-up strike” against the big three Detroit automakers, union President Shawn Fain delivered a harsh analysis of Donald Trump on Tuesday. After CNN ...
by Walter Einenkel
18 comments
on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 05:15 PM PDT
with 65 Recommends
|
|
This essay was originally published on my blog, The Urban Curmudgeon, on September 25, 2023. So, the UAW struck the Big Three this weekend and all hell is breaking loose in Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky. The big question: can the unions get what they...
by UrbanCurmudgeon
2 comments
on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 02:02 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
|
Recommended
- I thought it was a joke and then I read Yahoo News. Let us not forget Trump had and may still have classified information but ah ha, then I thought, how many copies did he make of the classified docs? I mean the article said his mobile human printer...53 comments 137 Recs
- CNN has published a deeply troubling report on the torture that Israel is committing on Gazan detainees at the Sde Teiman prison in Israel’s Negev desert. The Israeli whistleblower revealed that detainees, some of whom are innocent surgeons and...317 comments 446 Recs
- Burn, baby, burn. Ukraine hit this same refinery two months ago. Oh look! Lots of new job opportunities in Russia. I wonder if they have a good health plan. It has been anticipated for a while now that Russia would attempt an offensive near Kharkiv....27 comments 180 Recs
- Last winter, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost all nine of her congressional staffers. On November 1, 2023, she fired her chief of staff, Dan Hanlon. In the next three months, the other eight quit. The reviews were not good. Mace earned a reputation as an...56 comments 138 Recs
- I know that the GOP believes a lot of ridiculous nonsense. It’s their stock-in-trade. But hearing this nutty theory espoused by the current Speaker of the House is more than a little jarring. In a clear attack on the executive branch, the judicial...212 comments 267 Recs
- A Severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to lash at earth around 03:00 — 09:00 UTC Saturday morning (11 p.m. EDT Friday night to 5 a.m. EDT Saturday morning). A series of strong solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections took place Wednesday and...68 comments 272 Recs
- Stormy Daniels is standing strong after spending more than seven hours over two days testifying about what happened one night in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with Donald Trump. And Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ attempt at “slut-shaming” the adult film star...68 comments 157 Recs
- Late Night Snark: Let’s Get Boring Edition "I don’t know what's worse: that RFK Jr. had a worm that was eating his brain, or that his brain is so poisoned that it killed the worm. … And as if this story couldn’t get any weirder, it turns out that...43 comments 34 Recs
- Primum non nocere (first, or above all, do no harm) is a Latin expression generally applied to the medical profession. However, I viewed it as equally applicable to the practice of law and often reminded myself of it in my own practice. Trump’s...417 comments 925 Recs
- UPDATE: Friday, May 10, 2024 · 2:15:25 PM +00:00 · distraught Over 2 months ago, Biden nominated someone to fill 1 of 2 vacancies on the Postal Board. Walsh would be the fourth Democrat to sit on the board, joining three Republicans and one...189 comments 303 Recs
- Early this morning a Russian oil refinery in Kaluga Oblast had a full 30 minutes warning that a Ukrainian drone was headed their way. The drone arrived right on time to hit the facility …. unmolested and with devastating effect. What air defense doing?...57 comments 154 Recs
- WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in...96 comments 16 Recs
Recent Diaries
- For many years, no one knew who had fathered Cass Elliot’s child. Now the identity is out. It was more or less an open secret in Fairfax, California that Chuck Day was the dad. Chuck had a lot of stories, and that was one of them. Chuck was also an...1 comments 1 Recs
- WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER RULES IN THE DIARY WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in...96 comments 16 Recs
- A favored principle in competitive Capitalism circles has been that of planned obsolescence. The idea being the creation of a need for replacing things previously purchased, a need caused by the prior item having gotten “past its prime,” and therefore...1 comments 6 Recs
- Late Night Snark: Let’s Get Boring Edition "I don’t know what's worse: that RFK Jr. had a worm that was eating his brain, or that his brain is so poisoned that it killed the worm. … And as if this story couldn’t get any weirder, it turns out that...43 comments 34 Recs
- Our system of government relies on a set of checks and balances. These checks and balances allow for harmful government actions to be corrected. The Judiciary Branch corrects many Legislative Branch and /or Executive Branch actions. Within the...3 comments 1 Recs
- That’s the short title. I should properly call this, “The End of Donald Trump’s Political Career”, because that’s the question facing us. How do we end Donald Trump’s political career? ...6 comments 7 Recs
- EveryTown For Gun Safety - FB Students Demand Action - News Leaders We Deserve/Invest In Young People A grassroots organization determined, to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country to help defeat the...1 comments 1 Recs
- 🔥 "The children who remember their past lives- What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that arenât hers?"15 comments 7 Recs
- A series of witnesses testified today as the prosecution is beginning to wind up its case against Trump. Perhaps most damaging was a Trump tweet which proved an opening statement claim made to the jury by his attorney to be a lie. Here are today’s...8 comments 22 Recs
- The Biden administration has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza may have violated international law or “established best practices” for protecting civilians, but has not found specific instances that would...4 comments 7 Recs
- The magnitude of the maladjustment within today's Republican Party has reached unprecedented levels of chaos and hostility. And while they unload plenty of vile on their Democratic foes, they frequently aim at one another, ripping themselves to shreds...9 comments 17 Recs
- x ...4 comments 0 Recs
- “Capital will not ignore a profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent profit will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certain will produce eagerness; 50 percent,...1 comments 8 Recs
- In the clean economy revolution, globally, there are truly many great stories and tremendous advances. Solar power continues its double-digit growth, clean generation is blowing away fossil fuels in new power plants, battery prices continue to fall...16 comments 31 Recs
- Commentary by Black Kos editor JoanMar One hundred years ago, some wise man wrote, “Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done.” Whatever the legal complexities, the notion of someone facing 40 years in federal prison for “lying on...133 comments 42 Recs
- Took me a couple days to mull this one over in my head, what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it. At first, I was going for short and snappy, and then I thought, “No, maybe I should let Stormy speak for herself.” Also, I could not freaking get...15 comments 32 Recs
- Pete Seeger opened his autobiography with this song because of how important he felt diversity. Andy Antipin is Philadelphia's best known labor singer and this video and its audio counterpart include an all-star lineup including David Amram on tin...1 comments 2 Recs
- A DEADLY THREAT FROM A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST FANATIC: SHEER LUNACY (AGAIN!) FROM TRUMP: PROJECT 2025— A DAGGER AIMED AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN FREEDOM: THE PARTY OF SMALL GOVERNMENT: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP THIS MAGA NIGHTMARE: Hope Springs from Field...1 comments 23 Recs
- I thought it was a joke and then I read Yahoo News. Let us not forget Trump had and may still have classified information but ah ha, then I thought, how many copies did he make of the classified docs? I mean the article said his mobile human printer...53 comments 137 Recs
- I wanted to offer a follow up to my last diary in which I supported Joe Biden’s decision to withhold 2,000 pound bombs and related unguided destructive offensive weapons from Netanyahu. It’s been a while coming, too. I want to talk about the remarkable...20 comments 9 Recs
