Nursing home workers in Minnesota are furious about widespread union busting. Public funds should not be used to finance surveillance of workers, forced meetings, and anti-union flyers, they say. Important reporting by Isabela Escalona for @workdaymagazine.bsky.social.
"Only now, after many workers have spent decades working with manufactured stone, is the horrible truth coming out—no amount of protection is safe. There is no treatment for silicosis other than a lung transplant, and even transplants may only prolong life by 5 to 10 years."
“How Is This Okay?”: Union Busting at Publicly Funded Facilities Amid Staffing Crisis
Important reporting from Isabela Escalona for @workdaymagazine.bsky.social
Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare
"Israeli forces bombed a tent west of Khan Younis at 4:07 a.m., killing an 18-year-old and wounding a sleeping grandfather"
Remembering when I wrote this piece in 2020 about how this has to be the decade we stop climate change, not start a war with Iran.
Cisneros, Craig, Golden, Horsford, Morelle, Panetta, Sherman ALL voted no to Tlaib's War Powers Resolution that was aimed at stopping US support for Israel's atrocities in Yemen. As Michael Arria and I showed here, they also have terrible records on the Yemen War.
ICYMI: Read Amie Stager's lovely discussion about working-class environmentalism with hospital cook Leslie Kaup.
Silicosis is a lethal workplace illness that killed thousands each year up through the 1960s. In recent decades, thanks to union workplace safety fights, it became much rarer. Annual deaths dropped to...
A report published in March by Columbia University’s Labor Lab finds that nursing homes in Minnesota that receive public funds through Medicare and Medicaid are more likely to use union-busting tactic...
Immigrants imprisoned in a Newark camp are on strike to demand their freedom. This is a work stoppage combined with a hunger strike, made harder because the strikers are behind locked doors. Important reporting from Luis Feliz Leon.
“First, we heard aircraft overhead. Shortly afterward, there were loud explosions that shook the ground. After the blasts, I could hear people shouting, crying, and calling for assistance. The sounds of panic and confusion continued for quite some time.”
A report published in March by Columbia University’s Labor Lab finds that nursing homes in Minnesota that receive public funds through Medicare and Medicaid are more likely to use union-busting tactic...
A little-noticed amendment allows for continued U.S. intelligence sharing with Saudi Arabia, undermining the push to halt all U.S. participation in the war.
On a patch of sidewalk on a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests, and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bull...
