Highland ICU Nurses Win Victory in Firing Bad Manager
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last year, Highland Hospital hired a temporary manager to fill the vacant leadership role in the ICU. Nurses on the unit immediately found the new manager to be an incompetent bully, who flaunted his many years […]
France: For Our Demands, We’ll All Have to Pitch in!
July 15, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French Since July 8 (election day), negotiations have been underway in all parties to put forward the name of a Prime Minister. In the New Popular Front (NFP), the various parties have still not managed to agree: the Socialist Olivier Faure […]
San Francisco’s General Strike, 90 years later
This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, when 150,000 workers across the Bay Area shut down the city for four days in a tremendous display of worker power. The strike had begun on May 9 as a West Coast-wide walkout of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Within […]
Technology Fads are Hungry for Power
Data centers are using huge amounts of electricity and producing carbon emissions.
Labor Peace or Class War?
(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 auto companies, UAW president, Shawn Fain said the working class in this country is facing a war – “a class war”. That is unusual coming from a president of a union in this country, where the focus is usually on […]