Democratic presidential candidates are showing their support for striking Chicago teachers. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a strong ally, joining a rally last month, for instance, and he continues to have their backs:
Elizabeth Warren expressed solidarity as the teachers geared up to strike:
And since the strike began:
More news:
● Halloween is coming. Find a list of union-made candy here. (Organizing the Mars company should be a clear priority for the labor movement, but there’s some good stuff on this list.)
● Why I'm voting no on UAW's deal with GM: A "third-tier" worker speaks.
● How unpredictable work hours turn families upside down:
Black and Hispanic women had the worst schedules, and white men had the best, the researchers found. The children of workers with precarious schedules had worse behavior and more inconsistent child care than those whose parents had stable schedules. [...]
The researchers said the biggest reason for the scheduling differences by race was not because of factors like education or which jobs workers chose, but because managers gave worse shifts to employees who weren’t white.
Workers of color were 30 percent more likely than white workers to have had a shift canceled in the last month, for example. They had more schedule instability even when they had the same education, age and other characteristics as white workers, and worked at the same companies.
● The Trump National Labor Relations Board is basically checking off the items on a corporate anti-worker wish list one by one.
● Sen. Bernie Sanders weighed in in support of striking sanitation workers at Republic Services in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
● Barbara Madeloni on solidarity at work in the Chicago teachers strike.
● What would debate questions look like if Economic Policy Institute experts were doing the asking?
