Walmart Workers Ramp Up Protests for Black Friday
Walmart retail workers in Southern California held the first sit-down strike in the company’s history yesterday.
Labor Movement
Charlotte FedEx Freight Votes Teamster
November 20, 2014: The 222 city and road drivers at the big Charlotte terminal voted Yes for the Teamsters Union in an NLRB election. It’s the largest union win at FedEx Freight to date, and brings the number of Teamster-represented FedEx Freight workers to about 400.
Boston’s parking attendants unionizing
The Boston Globe
11/12/2014
Parking attendants around Boston, many of them from East Africa, say they face third-world conditions performing one of the faceless jobs of a firs
$50 Million Teamster Win in Louisville
November 11, 2014: Louisville Local 89 and Teamster carhaulers have won a strike victory at Ford, despite getting no support from the Hoffa administration.
Immigrant Recycling Workers Win Strike, Union Drive in East Bay
In These Times
11/01/2014
SAN LEANDRO, CA—Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination. One group voted to unionize, and another, already union members, walked out on strike.
Solidarity with Fairpoint Strikers
October 31, 2014: Two thousand telecommunications workers are on strike against Fairpoint Communications in Northern New England. TDU stands with them.
Fast Food in Denmark Serves Something Atypical: Living Wages
The New York Times
10/27/2014
On a recent afternoon, Hampus Elofsson ended his 40-hour workweek at a Burger King and prepared for a movie and beer with friends. He had paid his rent and all his bills, stashed away some savings, yet still had money for nights out.
FedEx Ground: Employees or "contractors"
Five days a week for 10 years, Agostino Scalercio left his ouse before 6 a.m., drove to a depot to pick up a truck, and worked a 10-hour shift delivering packages in San Diego. He first worked for Roadyway Package System, a national delivery company whose founders included former United Parcel Service managers, and continued driving trucks when FedEx bought RPS in 1998. FedEx Groung assigned Scalercio a service area. The company, he says, had strict standards about delivery times, the drivers' grooming, truck maintenance, and deadlines for handing in paperwork, and deducted money from his pay to cover the cost of his uniform, truck washings, and the scanner used to log shipments.
The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century
The New York Times
10/08/2014
American workers have been receiving meager pay increases for so long now that it’s reasonable to talk in sweeping terms about the trend. It is the great wage slowdown of the 21st century.
Justices Weighing Wages for After-Work Screenings
The New York Times
10/07/2014
After his 12-hour shifts at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Jesse Busk says, he and 200 other workers typically waited in line for 25 minutes to undergo a security check to see whether they had stolen any goods.
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