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Following the announcement of a strike on June 21, about a dozen union members left the union hall waving signs and cheering for the strike. [4] Shortly after the announcement of the strike, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) James Geurtz said, “my expectation is both sides will work aggressively and with a sense of urgency so we can get these programs ...
Since 2013, the lowest number of union members were in 2020 and 2021 – in the midst of the pandemic – at 14,012,000 and 14,285,000 respectively. PolitiFact Truth-o-meter: Mostly true Our ruling
A 2020 study in the American Journal of Political Science suggested that when white people obtain union membership, they become less racially resentful. [118] Higher union density has been associated with lower suicide/overdose deaths. [119] Decreased unionization rates in the United States have been linked to an increase in occupational ...
The union, known as Starting Point, successfully won significant pay raises for members in 2020. [39] In 2018 workers at South Korean game company Smilegate also formed a labor union known as SG Guild and successfully got Smilegate executives to sign an agreement with the employees. The union held a demonstration in 2019 calling for "stable ...
Amazon responded to worker activism by increasing anti-union propaganda, firing organizers, hiring Pinkertons, and surveilling its workers. [1] In December 2020, the National Labor Relations Board found merit to a complaint that a Staten Island warehouse worker's firing was an illegal retaliation for organizing for pandemic safety procedure. [6]
Mr Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress — his third since taking office in 2021 — comes as he gears up for a tough general election rematch against the man he defeated in 2020 ...
The Canadian arbitrator appointed to resolve a messy railroad labor dispute to protect the North American economy has ordered employees at the country’s two major railroads back to work so both ...
The UAW's fortunes began to improve after it began organizing on an industrial basis. The union found rapid success with the sitdown strike, a tactic where workers "sit down" at their work stations to occupy a factory. [14] Sitdown strikes enabled small numbers of workers to interrupt the assembly line and stop production across an entire plant ...