NEW: Railroad workers are telling Congress to stop doing the bidding of profitable & exploitative railroad companies.
3 of the 5 largest rail unions rejected a tentative contract that gives workers 0 paid sick days.
Workers want Congress to improve the deal & save the industry. pic.twitter.com/Z0EI2nG26F
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) November 21, 2022
Tag: Strike
Red Cup Day – Workers on Strike at Starbucks
More than a thousand Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday on what is one of the company’s busiest days.
Members of the Starbucks Workers Union are picketing outside more than a hundred stores across the country on what they say is the group’s largest single-day strike. The walkout falls on what’s known as Red Cup Day, when the coffee giant hands out limited-edition holiday reusable cups. They’re considered collector’s items and customers line up at the crack of dawn to get their hands on a decorated cup. It’s one of the coffee giant’s most profitable days on the calendar.
On Red Cup Day, thousands of Starbucks workers go on strike
No Starbucks for me today
San Francisco Airport Strike
⚡️ BREAKING ⚡️
1,000 fast-food workers at San Francisco International Airport are on strike.
Most of us haven't had a raise in three years, and we're tired of working two or even three jobs just to survive. So we're fighting back.
#1u #AirportStrikeAlert #unitehere pic.twitter.com/LFs4mUQnnn— UNITE HERE Local 2 (@UniteHereLocal2) September 26, 2022
HarperCollins Strike – July 20, 2022
More than 200 unionized HarperCollins employees are on strike today following months of contract negotiations, which began in December 2021 and which, they say, have not yielded a fair agreement for workers.
HarperCollins, based in New York City—where the median rent recently reached $4,000 a month—offers a starting salary of $45,000, and unionized workers make an average salary of $55,000. Employees are calling for a pay increase along with more family leave benefits, improved efforts to diversify the company, and “stronger union protection,” while currently working without a contract, according to a press release.
Employees are currently holding a picket line in lower Manhattan, where others have joined them in support.
HarperCollins workers are on strike today
Corinne Segal
Lithub
Congrats to King Soopers Workers
A new agreement for Kroger workers includes higher wages for King Soopers employees, with some receiving increases of more than $5 per hour https://t.co/wcCGH6YQmQ
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 25, 2022
Supporting the King Soopers Strike
I live maybe a mile from a King Soopers store and have been shopping there for years. I went to Safeway this weekend instead of King Soopers, out of support for the strikers. Noted that the Safeway store was extra busy. Great minds think alike.
Thank you to our community! We are so thankful that you are standing with us we see your post your photos your comments! Thank you for standing with us! #thankful #togetherwewin #kingsoopersstrike #dontshopkingsoopers pic.twitter.com/xZtWEP1Zxd
— UFCW Local 7 (@UFCW_7) January 17, 2022
King Soopers Strike – Denver
Kroger Supermarket Workers Go on Strike in Denver
About 8,400 unionized workers at Kroger’s King Soopers in Denver walk off the job, demanding better pay and benefits
Wall Street Journal
Boycott Kelloggs #BoycottKelloggs
Will be saying NO to all the above until Kellogg works out something with the Union.
Not 1 pop-tart
No Cheez-Its
Nothing
Update – December 12. Went to the store today and Pop-Tarts were on sale. Too bad they’re Kelloggs, though. Hard pass.
Columbia Student Workers Strike
NEW: The biggest strike in America right now is happening at Columbia University, where 3,000 student workers are fighting for a livable wage, health benefits, and more.
Columbia says it can't afford workers' demands — after its most lucrative year in 15 years. pic.twitter.com/IYd5KF67qX
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) November 20, 2021
Congratulations to DIA Janitors
“We’re on strike for fair wages and workloads,” said Luis Gonzalez in a statement. “We keep this place running. We put ourselves at risk every day, and we deserve to be able to put food on the table for the holidays.”
Ron Ruggiero, president of SEIU Local 105, said the tentative agreement reached after talks Saturday morning includes a win for workers on the issue of pay after “40 years of wage stagnation.”
“A huge sticking point was around wages and that was a major achievement today,” Ruggiero said. “There are also workload issues that got resolved.”
The agreement reached contains raises amounting to $4 an hour over the three years of the contract, along with workload protections and increased time off.
Striking DIA janitors return to work after tentative deal reached
The Denver Channel
Robert Garrison
John Deere Strike
There it is. The Deere contract is ratified, and the strike is over.
10,000 UAW members turned down two contracts, killed a new tier, doubled their raises, improved pensions, won back COLA, and showed the country that you can still strike and win big.
What a righteous fight. pic.twitter.com/mN5os0eRlk
— Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) November 18, 2021
Kellogg Strike
“For more than a year throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Kellogg workers around the country have been working long, hard hours, day in and day out, to produce Kellogg ready-to-eat cereals for American families,” said Anthony Shelton, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
“Kellogg’s response to these loyal, hardworking employees has been to demand these workers give up quality health care, retirement benefits, and holiday and vacation pay. The company continues to threaten to send additional jobs to Mexico if workers do not accept outrageous proposals that take away protections that workers have had for decades,” Shelton said.
NEW: The workers who make Rice Krispies & Froot Loops are on strike at all Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants. They work 16-hour forced overtime shifts and 7-day work weeks, sometimes up to 120 days straight.
Now, amid record profits, Kellogg's wants to cut their pay & benefits. pic.twitter.com/3XJpR1sIIU
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) October 9, 2021
Nabisco Strike Ends
A weekslong strike by Nabisco employees in five states ended on Saturday, as their union announced that its members had overwhelmingly approved a four-year contract with the parent company of the maker of Oreos, Ritz Crackers and other snacks.
The employees are members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which had clashed with Nabisco’s owner, Mondelez International, over proposed changes to shift lengths and overtime rules.
Nabisco Workers End Weekslong Strike After Reaching New Contract
The impasse began in August after members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union objected to changes in shift lengths and overtime rules.
Neil Vigdor
Nabisco Strike and Boycott
Steven James has been working as a machine operator making Oreos, Chips Ahoy! and other Nabisco snacks at a plant in Richmond, Va. for 20 years.
On Aug. 16, James joined about 1,000 of his fellow union members in five states and walked off the job to protest what they say are “unfair” demands for concessions in contract negotiations with Nabisco’s parent company Mondelez International (MDLZ). James, who isn’t working another job, said he plans to stay out of the plant until a fair contract is signed.
“We’re not asking for a lot,” James told Yahoo Finance Live. “We just want a fair contract.”
As America’s appetite for snack foods has grown during the pandemic, James said he and his colleagues on the frontlines have been working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week.
“It was just constant. Never had time to spend with the kids. Never had time to spend with the family,” he said.
In support of the strikers, here’s a bag of cookies I didn’t buy when I was at King Soopers earlier today:
Nabisco Strike – Update
Nabisco workers on the picket lines in five U.S. states say their first strike in 52 years is about keeping what they already had as employees producing Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and other snacks for the global food conglomerate.
Roughly 1,050 Nabisco workers are staying off the job in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon and Virginia, according to their union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International, or BCTGM. The labor dispute began nearly three weeks ago with workers at the Nabisco bakery in Portland calling a strike. The strike has since spread, with workers in Chicago joining the labor action on Thursday and workers in Norcross, Georgia, following suit on Monday.
“We’re fighting for a fair contract, no concessions,” Yvette Hale, who has worked at Nabisco’s Chicago bakery nearly 22 years, told CBS MoneyWatch. “Everyone is angry, as you never know if you’re going to work eight hours, 12 hours or 16 hours.”
Nabisco strike, the first in 52 years, expands to five states
CBS NEWS
Kate Gibson