November 2018 (Monthly)
A Nation of Immigrants – One Working Class Migrant Caravan: Survival is Not a Crime UPS Teamsters—Voting No is Not Enough! Uber and Lyft: 21st Century Technology, 18th Century Conditions Marriot Workers on Strike download .pdf (11×17)
A Nation of Immigrants – One Working Class
The U.S. is supposedly a nation of immigrants – people who chose to come here. The real history is quite different. Yes, the majority of people who populate the U.S. were immigrants or descended from immigrants. But there were millions of people living here before the European invasion. Estimates say there were 12 million people […]
Migrant Caravan: Survival is Not a Crime
The caravan of a few thousand Central American refugees traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border is a desperate journey of survival. People are walking and sometimes riding on trucks to the border, more than 1000 miles away, to apply for asylum. This may be the largest single caravan of migrants to the U.S. in recent history, […]
UPS Teamsters—Voting No is Not Enough!
Teamsters Union members who work for UPS recently voted to reject a proposed contract. But the top officials of the Teamsters Union said that the voters actually approved the contract. The vote was 46 percent approving and 54 percent turning it down. But the union leadership said that fewer than 50 percent of the eligible […]
Uber and Lyft: 21st Century Technology, 18th Century Conditions
Six New York taxi drivers have committed suicide in the last year. Taxi drivers are now having to work ridiculously long 12-14 hour shifts just to survive. One driver, Doug Shifter, blamed his suicide on having to drive 100-120 hours almost every week. Before shooting himself outside City Hall, he wrote a Facebook post blaming […]
Marriot Workers on Strike
Seven thousand hotel workers across the U.S. are on strike against Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain. Its sales last year totaled $23 billion. But workers haven’t seen this money in their paychecks or benefits – all they’ve seen is more work. Many are working two or three jobs to make ends meet. Rising housing […]