After a strike last year, Prime Healthcare fired nine workers at St Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, including the entire union bargaining team, in a naked act of retaliation.
Should Kaiser workers strike, they would join tens of thousands of striking writers and actors around the country. But a key obstacle they face is the corrupt bureaucracy of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.
The storm is dropping unprecedented amounts of rainfall over a vast area, whose infrastructure is wholly unprepared for such a weather event.
The attendees, numbering in the hundreds, were a mix of lower-level union and Democratic Party officials and supporters, and those writers who decided to attend.
Striking writers expressed their determination to win decent wages and conditions in a profession increasingly turning into “gig” work.
A multi-media exhibition in Los Angeles documents the journeys and testimonies of undocumented migrants who attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Emboldened by the UAW’s sellout, the University of California has made a substantial investment in a company that profits from the maintenance of high rent.
The one-month walkout by University of California academic workers is in grave danger as the UAW bureaucracy seeks to divide strikers and agrees to mediation.
Against the overwhelming and vocal opposition by the rank and file, UAW bargainers are dropping strikers' most fundamental demands.
The strike by 48,000 University of California academic workers is at a critical juncture as the battle enters its third week today.
Will Lehman spoke with striking academic workers the day after UAW bargainers dropped their most important demands.
After leaked audio of racist comments by Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez sparked protests calling for her and her political allies to resign, further leaks continue to expose the internal thuggery of the Democratic Party.
The nurse behind the wheel of a deadly car crash is being demonized to cover up the social roots of the tragedy.
The union highlights presented to Los Angeles hospital workers say nothing about staffing, patient ratios or working hours, and include pay increases that will not keep pace with soaring inflation.
Health care workers are preparing a series of actions at the two largest hospitals in the state and in a number of other locations.
The task force has moved that in the management of any reparations payments, the burden of proof will be on the recipients to prove that they had an ancestor who was enslaved or a “free Black person” in the US prior to the 20th century.
There is enormous support for engineers from nurses and other health care workers, but the strike has been systematically isolated by the health care unions.
Opposition is growing as healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente prepare to vote December 8 on a concessions contract being promoted by the Alliance of Health Care Unions.
The unions that comprise the Alliance of Health Care Unions are pushing for a “yes” vote on a tentative agreement with Kaiser that does nothing to address health care workers’ grievances but promises lucrative payouts to the union bureaucracy.
Workers in multiple unions have voted overwhelmingly in the past month to authorize a strike at Kaiser Permanente hospitals, including a possible open-ended walkout planned for November 15 by nearly 32,000 staff.
