The California Department of Managed Health Care recently announced it would be examining the medical giant Kaiser Permanente to see if it is providing adequate mental health care. This comes after mental health workers at Kaiser hospitals have complained that...
The Minneapolis general strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by the local union of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a major distribution center for...
Speak Out Now is pleased to repost this review by Adam Shils of Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism (Haymarket, 2022). The review was originally published online by the International Socialism Project on April 22. We value Burns’ categories contrasting...
This is from a Speak out Now newsletter written with workers at AC Transit, a public transit agency based in Oakland, California and serving much of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. Well, it looks like ATU members at AC Transit have gotten an extension...
500 workers at Chevron’s Richmond refinery have been on strike since Monday, March 21. And Chevron management hasn’t moved any closer to the workers’ demands: an extra 5% wage increase to adjust for the rising cost of living in the Bay Area (on top of the...
