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Layoffs: End-of-Year Tradition Exposes Cruelty of Capitalism

In the U.S., businesses find it easy to sack large numbers of personnel on short notice because “at will” employ­ment…

3 years ago

Long Beach Briefs: Youth Poet Laureate Program and Council Approves Economic Development Draft Blueprint

These opportunities aim to provide youth poets with the experience, platform, and confidence needed to make arts-activism a lifelong practice.

3 years ago

Protecting Workers and the Elderly Remains Everyone’s Responsibility as Transmission Remains High

Older people and those with chronic health conditions remain at higher risk, even if vaccinated. With the most infectious variants…

3 years ago

Grocery Corporations Stonewall Unions Negotiations

By Anealia Kortkamp, RLn Editorial Intern In a surprising turn, major Southern California grocery chains and the United Food and…

4 years ago

Supermarket Workers Vote to Authorize Strike

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union 770 said in a statement that the supermarket corporations engaged in illegal and…

4 years ago

Long Beach City Council Makes Recall and Retention Worker Protections Permanent

Long Beach is now the first city in the nation with a permanent recall and retention policy protecting hospitality and…

4 years ago

Amazon Workers Win Union Vote

NEW YORK CITY— “This is our moment in history,” said Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) in…

4 years ago

Random Letters: 2-17-22

Re: Profiteering Foreign Shipping Companies Versus U.S. Workers Frank Ponce De Leon’s editorial on profiteering by the foreign shipping companies…

4 years ago

Labor Notes: Mexican GM Workers Vote for New Union

Mexican GM Workers Vote for New Union Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide…

4 years ago

Labor Notes — Amazon Workers Score Victory: Union Election

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island will vote on whether to unionize their workplace. The effort is being…

4 years ago