Today in 1919 Seattle General Strike begins. The city was run by a General Strike Committee for six days as tens of thousands of union members stopped work in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen.
• Walsh: Biden to push not just jobs, but good jobs • No cross-border trucking for unvaccinated drivers • Biden jobs boon is bigger than we thought • Board says Amazon illegally fired NY union organizer • A brief history of income inequality in the U.S. • New hours-of-service rules don’t deter safety, OOIDA says • 8 Teamster drivers to educate public as ‘road team captains’ • Rail Labor’s largest coalition reaches dead end on path to agreement • XPO, Teamsters fire opening shots in new battle over drayage driver status • NLRB: Amazon workers eligible to hold union election at NY warehouse • Striking concrete workers face off against corporate greed, and despair • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) staff seek to organize with Teamster Local 238
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