Fast-Food Workers Are Closing In on a Major Victory in California
McDonald’s employee Nidia Torres (right) speaks at a rally of fast-food workers and supporters for passage of AB 257, a fast-food worker health and safety bill, on April 16, 2021, in Los Angeles.Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mysheka Ronquillo usually gets up…
Heat Is Killing US Workers as OSHA Takes Its Sweet Time
Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every year, heat causes at least 170,000 work-related injuries and as many as 2,000 fatalities. It’s one of the top five causes of workplace injuries and deaths, and summers are getting hotter. Despite the growing risk of heat, the Occupational…
May Day Marches Highlight Essential Immigrant Labor and Rising Frustration With Biden
Workers participate in a May Day rally in Manhattan.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On International Worker’s Day, often referred to as May Day, immigrant rights organizations, labor rights groups, and their allies marched in about a dozen major…
OSHA Found Risk Factors at an Amazon Warehouse Where a Tornado Killed Workers. The Agency Is Not Going to Punish Anyone.
Crews use an excavator to pull down pieces of a damaged roof during search and rescue operations at the Amazon distribution center in Eadwardsville, Illinois, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, after overnight severe storms caused the building to partially collapse. Daniel Shular/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free…
Stanford Threatens to Cut Health Care for Nurses Who Go on Strike
Over 8,000 registered nurses and health care workers with Sutter Health participated in a one-day strike on April 18th.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital are ready to exchange thermometers…
Amazon Labor Union Wins Historic Election at New York City Warehouse
Workers at the Staten Island facility march during a March, 2020 protest.Spencer Platt/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island is set to become Amazon’s only unionized worksite in the United States. On Friday, the National Labor…