working conditions

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …

Highland Hospital needs to get more staff and stop overworking its workers. …

The Highland and Kaiser hospitals treat their workers like robots! …

The last several months have been wet. Really wet for what is normal for this …

Last summer, the federal Department of Labor opened an investigation into Packer Sanitation Services, Inc. …

Today, we often react in horror to the accounts of ancient societies that carried out …

The voice of a fast food worker that faced degrading working conditions and low pay. …

This relatively unknown piece of history of the Battle of Blair Mountain shows the heroic efforts miners took to defend themselves and challenge their exploitation. …

Today we are sharing an episode of This American Life: “Essential” which shares a range of voices of workers who were deemed essential during the first wave of the pandemic. …

On June 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to give the farm owners the right to bar union organizers from their lands. This is nothing new, the courts have a history of cutting away at workers’ rights when they think the workers are too weak to fight back. …

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

Videos from COVID-19 townhall …

Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …