BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update
Labor News Update - 08/10/2023
#HotLaborSummer Strike Coverage
SAG-AFTRA’s Fran Drescher Says Interim Agreements ‘Designed to Undermine’ Studios’ Production Schedules https://bit.ly/3Qz5Yc6
SAG Actors Want Higher Residuals. Here’s How Streaming Residuals Work https://yhoo.it/3OvWhbX
100-day strike: Hollywood writers frustrated as talks languish https://reut.rs/3qt6QnS
Striking Writers and Actors Hold the Line Against Tech Slicing and Dicing https://bit.ly/3OtGZ7x
‘More work for less money’: Protests at LAX, City Hall as thousands walk off the job https://lat.ms/3OwHzkK
UAW boss throws wage hike offer by Jeep parent Stellantis in the trash as strike looms: ‘Management’s chosen to spit in our faces’ https://bit.ly/3KBeLGN
Labor News
Tyson Foods to shut four US chicken plants in blow to small towns https://reut.rs/44YDlth
Caterpillar union okays new six year contract https://bit.ly/3OwiS8c
MBTA Partners with Union to Reach Historic Wage Agreement https://bit.ly/452mmGi
UPS delivery-driver job searches soar 50% after union secures wage hike that could see workers get a $170,000 yearly package https://yhoo.it/47qTfht
NLRB News, Updates & Summaries
Starbucks Illegally Sacked Union Activist, Labor Board Rules https://bit.ly/3qhUL57
Politics, Legislation & Government
Kentucky Gov. Beshear’s Budget Plan Supports Law Enforcement, Boosts Public Safety — Plan includes moving all statewide law enforcement back to defined pension benefits https://bit.ly/44anA1i
Ohio Labor Drives Victory Against Attack on Democracy https://bit.ly/47nmnX4
Workplace Safety & Health
Government eyes more coal regulations as black lung cases sharply rise among miners https://to.pbs.org/45jQgFZ
Labor History in 2:00: This Day in Labor History
August 10 - Illinois Brotherhoods Join the ‘22 Shopmen Strike
On this day in labor history, the year was 1922.
That was the day 1300 workers from the four railroad brotherhoods walked off the job in Joliet, near Chicago.
The walkout threatened to paralyze freight service for steel mills in nearby Gary and other regional industries.
Four hundred thousand railroad shopmen had been on strike across the country for nearly seven weeks.
Newspaper headlines that day warned a general strike of two million trainmen loomed on the horizon.
Brotherhood leaders promised sympathy strikes in response to threats made against their members by troops on duty at railroad centers and yards.
There were also real concerns about the health and safety of trainmen, given rolling stock was no longer being maintained.
In Joliet, workers stayed away under threats from troops.
Additionally, Illinois Central trainmen faced threats from striking miners throughout Kentucky and Illinois, who warned:
“Stop transporting non-union coal or suffer the consequences.”
Resentment had been building against state guard troops stationed in Illinois yards.
Earlier in the week, striking shopmen had engaged in a fatal confrontation with Joliet sheriffs that left a striker and railroad detective dead and scores injured.
Riot orders were called when authorities sought to arrest striking shopmen who had stormed the home of a scab.
Brotherhood workers refused to return to work unless troops were removed.
Warren Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers stated: “We are not going to have our men shot up or beaten up or threatened by armed guards at railroad shops and yards.
When the men cannot go to work without having irresponsible armed guards endangering their lives, they may go home and stay there.
There will be 100 more cases soon if conditions are not changed.”
Labor History in 2 is a daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
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