Nurses across the country, including in upstate New York and Massachusetts, are striking over the same problems, with nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, entering into month seven of their strike — now the longest nurses' strike in Massachusetts history.
- IATSE: Over the weekend, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, a union representing over 60,000 television and film production workers, reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, preventing a strike that would’ve shut down film and TV production. But that’s only half the battle: IATSE leadership needs to take the deal to a vote with its membership, and members are telling the media they will likely vote no, given that the deal itself didn’t achieve many of the demands from the rank and file.
The recent strike votes are just one example of a stirring revolt against current labor standards. “For unionized workers, withdrawing your labor or going on strike is really the ultimate weapon. But workers are participating in a number of different actions whether or not they're unionized,” Givan told Newshour.
One example of this is Starbucks. None of Starbucks’ 8,000 U.S. stores are unionized, but three locations in Buffalo, New York, are working to unionize the stores. In response, Starbucks has closed two of those three locations. While workers claim the move looks like retaliation, Starbucks says it’s a coincidence. Another is delivery app Instacart, whose employees — all gig workers lacking job security — have proposed both a work stoppage and, for those who want to support them, deleting the app.
For those following along at home, strike support is a key piece of worker power. “It's going to take workers walking off the job in very serious numbers to create the kind of crisis that forces the capitalist class, the corporate elite in this country, to the table,” labor expert Jane McAlevey told Teen Vogue’s Jacqui Germain. “And that's not going to happen by workers isolated alone on picket lines. It's going to happen when the whole community begins to rise up and support them broadly.”
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