On the Picket Line
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Ascension nurses locked out National Nurses United represents the nurses at Ascension-Seton Medical Center. According to NNU, the Catholic “nonprofit,” with hospitals in Austin, Texas and Wichita, Kansas, holds “$19.5 billion in cash reserves, an investment arm that manages $41 billion, and a priva

One other point worth mentioning: Some “travel” nurses, contracted to replace striking nurses, were reportedly refusing to cross the picket line in solidarity with the hospital staff nurses. Kansas and Texas nurses will resume negotiations this month.

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The 1,400 locomotive manufacturing workers, members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE), care more about the environment and the climate crisis than the capitalists who own the Wabtec Locomotive company in Erie, Pennsylvania. UE Local 506 represents the factory workers, while UE Local 618 represents clerical workers at the plant. They are striking the plant over their right to strike over grievances during the life of the contract, a right which would ensure them a measure of control over conditions on the shop floor.

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Encore Boston Harbor casino and hotel workers are celebrating their victory after ratifying a new contract with Wynn Resorts, hours before they were set to strike.

Unite Here Local 26 won major economic gains — including a pension and access to legal, education and housing resources — for the casino’s 1,200 bartenders, cooks, front desk agents, baggage and door attendants and housekeepers. Along with wage and benefit upgrades, the contract eases disciplinary restrictions for lateness and absenteeism.

  • ComradeSaladEnglish
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    11 months ago

    UPMC Medical is another massive hospital system currently in strike. They control the healthcare for 10’s of millions of people, and they are listed as a “charity nonprofit” which means they pay zero taxes, but their board of directors and CEO make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. On the other hand their own workers and nurses are straddled with medical debt, not to mention hundreds of thousands of their patients.