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The focus of the High Desert State Prison hunger strike was to demand cleaner facilities, better food and better access to the library. [ 2 ] Due to the two-month hunger strike, lawmakers agreed to hold public hearings on the conditions within California's maximum security prisons where this prolonged solitary confinement has taken place. [ 1 ]
The Economic Roundtable report documented a sharp drop in real wages for Southern California Kroger workers since 1990, when the highest-paid food clerks earned $13.65 an hour, the equivalent of ...
The California Code of Regulations (CCR) states that "[p]articipation in a strike or work stoppage", "[r]efusal to perform work or participate in a program as ordered or assigned", and "[r]ecurring failure to meet work or program expectations within the inmate's abilities when lesser disciplinary methods failed to correct the misconduct" is ...
Most of the state's 500,000 fast food workers would be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new bill aimed at ending a standoff between the industry and labor unions over wages and working ...
The union alleges their strike authorization vote is the first in civil service worker history. Some of California’s highest-paid state workers vote to strike — here’s who they’re angry ...
The 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike was a labor strike that involved over 1,000 workers at two food processing facilities in Watsonville, California, United States.. The facilities were owned by Watsonville Canning and Richard A. Shaw Inc., two of the largest frozen food processors in the United States, while the workers were all union members of the International Brotherhood of ...
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes [1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018. [2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history. [3] [2] Striking workers demanded improved living conditions, an end to forced prison labor, and other prison reforms.
Thousands of Costco workers prepared to strike with a midnight deadline drawing closer Friday while the worker's union and the company negotiated. The Teamsters union represents 18,000 Costco ...