Pennsylvania nurses strike over patient safety, wages
https://themilitant.com/2020/11/21/pennsylvania-nurses-strike-over-patient-safety-wages/
BY JANET POST
Vol. 84/No. 47
November 30, 2020
Pennsylvania nurses strike over patient safety, wages
MILITANT/JOHN STAGGS
Nearly 800 nurses, members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff
Nurses and Allied Professionals union, began a two-day strike Nov. 17 at
St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, over inadequate
staffing levels, patient safety and low wages. The union has been in
negotiations over a year for their first contract. A strike has also
been authorized at two major Philadelphia hospitals organized by the
union, Einstein Medical Center and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
Thousands in Indonesia protest new anti-labor law
SYDNEY — Hundreds of thousands of workers and students took to the
streets across Indonesia Oct. 5 to protest the passage of anti-labor
legislation that day. Dubbed the “Omnibus Law,” it amends more than 70
existing laws, including ones that…
Dominion strikers in Canada ratify pact, end 12-week strike
The over 1,400 workers at Dominion grocery stores in Newfoundland, who
belong to Unifor Local 597, voted to end their spirited 12-week-long
strike. Voting on what Loblaw, Dominion’s parent company, called its
“final” contract proposal was conducted on the picket…
Unionists at GE in Louisville reject company’s contract offer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of International Union of Electrical
Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 83761 at GE Appliances
here voted down the bosses’ second contract offer by 57% on Oct. 29.
They had rejected their first offer Sept. 16 by…
Workers need fighting program for jobs, protection from inflation
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution by Leon Trotsky is one
of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The excerpt below is
from the document “The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the
Fourth International.” In drafting…
Rolls-Royce jet engine workers strike to stop job cuts
BARNOLDSWICK, England — After being furloughed, prescribed a 10% wage
cut and now facing 350 job losses, workers at jet engine maker
Rolls-Royce here have had enough. Ninety-four percent voted for a strike
called by their union, Unite, to oppose…
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