Today in 1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10-hour day and overtime pay after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions.
• Older U.S. workers are ‘unretiring’ • Inflation surge is gobbling up workers’ pay raises • Mistreatment fueling shortage of truck drivers • Teamster warns: ‘Soon, we’ll all be working for Amazon’ • Poll shows 74% of voters OK strikes for higher pay, benefits • Kellogg’s workers stand strong as cereal strike stretches on • Hoffa: House passage of Build Back Better Act is boon for working families • US school bus drivers strike over poor pay, Covid risk • John Oliver on union-busting …
