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☆ Overlooked No More: Min Matheson, Labor Leader Who Faced Down Mobsters
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Steven Greenhouse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. It was in northeastern Pennsylvania that Min Matheson earned her reputation for fearlessness. Over her 20 years as director of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union there, she repeatedly faced down mobsters in her fight for fair wages and safe conditions for women workers. In one incident, she confronted several menacing “tough guys,” as she called them, in Pittston, Pa., where she was marching on a picket line alongside other women.

Persons: Min Matheson Organizations: ’ Garment Workers ’ Union Locations: Times, Pennsylvania, Pittston, Pa

☆ The Labor Movement Hasn’t Taken Off. A New Book Explains Why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Willa Glickman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As Nolan writes in “The Hammer,” his lively account of the current landscape of American labor organizing, “It was reminiscent of Dr. Evil in ‘Austin Powers’ demanding as his ransom request for the entire world, ‘One million dollars!’”Nolan’s book joins the ranks of Steven Greenhouse’s “Beaten Down, Worked Up” and Jane McAlevey’s “A Collective Bargain” in making a rousing case for a robust labor movement. “The Hammer” aims to show that unions are the best way to combat economic inequality, give disenfranchised people genuine political power and counter the allure of the far right among the working class. What would such an announcement look like? “Perhaps every worker will emerge from the office and fire guns in the air,” Nolan muses, “until the smoke wafts over A.F.L.-C.I.O.

Persons: Hamilton Nolan, Liz Shuler, Nolan, “, Dr, ‘ Austin Powers, Steven Greenhouse’s “, Jane McAlevey’s “, Rich Yeselson, ” Nolan, ” Organizations: Labor, Gawker Locations: United States, Philadelphia, “, A.F.L

☆ How an auto workers strike 87 years ago transformed America
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The workers, members of the tiny United Automobile Workers union founded just a year prior, sought to improve brutal working conditions at mighty General Motors, the world’s largest manufacturer. The UAW’s sit-down strike across GM plants lasted 44 days. The 44-day strike birthed the United Auto Workers union. The UAW is calling its new strategy a “stand up strike,” a reference to the sit-down strike that started 87 years ago, and has launched targeted strikes at selected plants. The sit-down strike also prompted unionization and a wave of strikes in other industries.

Persons: Sheldon Dick, —, Shawn Fain, “ Shawn Fain, ”, Thomas Sugrue, GM foremen, Steven Greenhouse, Tom Watson, Frank Murphy, “, Joseph McCartin, Emily Elconin, Fain, McCartin Organizations: New, New York CNN, General Motors, Fisher, United Automobile Workers, GM, United Auto Workers, UAW, Detroit’s, Motors, Ford, New York University, American Labor, ” Strikers, Chevrolet, NY, Getty Images Police, Management, Flint police, Michigan Gov, National Guard, New York Times, Magazine, Chrysler, “ Auto, Georgetown University, Bloomberg, Getty, Unions, Current UAW Locations: New York, Flint , Michigan, America, Europe, Flint, Bettmann, Ford, Wayne , Michigan

☆ California is considering offering unemployment to workers on strike as the Hollywood writers walkout approaches its 4th month
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

California is considering a bill that would give striking workers access to unemployment benefits. AdvertisementAdvertisementLegislators are now considering a bill that would make any striking workers in the state eligible for unemployment benefits if their action lasts more than two weeks. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to the bill, striking workers would be eligible for payments of up to $450 per week. New York now offers striking workers up to $504 a week, while New Jersey offers up to $830 a week. New Jersey expanded its law in April, decreasing the waiting period for striking workers before benefits kick in from 30 to 14 days.

Persons: Steven Greenhouse, Kate Bronfenbrenner, —, Bronfenbrenner, Robert Moutrie, Moutrie Organizations: Labor, SAG, Service, Guild of America, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor, New York Times, Century Foundation, New, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, California Chamber of Commerce Locations: California, Wall, Silicon, New York, New Jersey, , Connecticut, Massachusetts, COVID

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