Marriott workers have settled their strikes and are back on the job in Detroit and San Jose, but the strike continues in Boston, San Francisco, and Hawaii, seven weeks after it started. That means workers are walking picket lines in San Francisco's smoky air and in Boston as it starts to get cold. But workers are committed:
● ExxonMobil went to Louisiana state officials looking for another tax handout, and they would have gotten it—but teachers said no to the drain on school budgets.
Educators and other school employees voted 445-6 on October 23 to stage a one-day walkout the following week. Teachers planned to pack a hearing on ExxonMobil’s requests.
Within hours of the union vote, the company’s exemption bids were off the Board of Industry and Commerce’s agenda.
● In the Pacific Northwest, a third Burgerville is filing for union recognition.
● When Janus backfires: A test case in labor solidarity after fair share.
● How to talk to your family about privatization this Thanksgiving. One hint:
You never want to jump right in to explaining that privatization is a key part of the neoliberal project to enrich corporations while attempting to solve nearly all social problems with private markets.
● Workers at a Florida cement plant cited safety as their top concern in unionizing.
● Johns Hopkins is trying to prevent nurses from unionizing, the National Labor Relations Board says:
This is the third time the labor board has found merit to such allegations since the National Nurses Organizing Committee filed a complaint in June, after the unionization effort began. Most recently, the labor board found there was merit to complaints that Hopkins officials created the impression they were surveilling unionization activity, which nurses said could have a chilling effect.