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Gig workers are essential workers As pandemic business closures escalated in 2019-2020, many immigrant workers who lost jobs at hotels and construction sites turned to the gig economy for work with Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, GrubHub and Instacart. Labelled as independent contractors by the companies, these workers have few labor protections.…
The 2,900 members of UAW Local 2069 hit the bricks April 17, shutting down the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world. But 13 days later many were dismayed when the union sent them back to work and said they would be told later what had been bargained. Over the weekend, workers voted by 91 percent to reject the tentative agreement. Photo: DelegateTara, Twitter.
Update: On May 20 union officials brought back a second tentative agreement. Workers are organizing to again vote no and petitioning to recall top officers.
Factory workers at a Volvo truck plant in southwest Virginia voted by 91 percent May 16 not to ratify a concession-filled contract negotiated by local and International Auto Workers (UAW) officials.
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A set of bills being finalized by the New York State legislature would, if enacted, dramatically alter the landscape of laws affecting independent contractor drivers who provide services to customers of ride-sharing technology companies like Uber and Lyft and delivery technology companies such as DoorDash, Instacart, and Amazon Flex. If enacted, it would establish “sectoral” bargaining, for the first time in the U.S., between a number of such companies negotiating as an industry with a union for wages, hours, and terms and conditions of work. What this potentially means for companies in other industries using independent contractors is also addressed below.
Palestine solidarity sweeps the US as Israel continues assault on Gaza 21.05.2021 - US, United States - Waging Nonviolence American Muslims for Palestine helped organize a 1,000-person-strong rally at the State Department and march to the White House on May 12. (Image by Twitter/AMPalestine)
Hundreds gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon with signs denouncing the violence that is now crushing the Gaza Strip’s over two million residents. At this storytelling rally, Palestinians who are so often rendered invisible in discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict spoke about their experiences of displacement. These centered on talking about how the forced expulsion of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 (known as the Nakba, or “disaster” in Arabic) affected them and thei