Registered nurses (RNs) at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital have successfully voted to form a union, claiming a historic victory as the first Baltimore hospital with a nurses’ union. The new union represents 522 nurses who work at the facility in Southwest Baltimore and...
In July of 2022, a group of Black teens was washing windshields, known as “squeegeeing,” at a busy downtown Baltimore intersection. A 48-year-old white man got out of his car and threatened the youths with a baseball bat, swinging the bat at at least one of them. One...
The six-week strike by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis wound down the weekend of October 25 with the announcement that the union had agreed on a new contract with Ford Motor Company. The UAW announced agreements with the...
Strikes by public employees are illegal in North Carolina. In 2021 and 2022 city officials in Durham canceled promised wage increases to city employees on the excuse that COVID caused city tax receipts to fall. The 2023 city budget allocated a 6% raise, far less than...
As of October 14, an Iranian teen, Armita Garavand, has been unconscious since October 1, after being physically assaulted by the country’s morality police for having her hair uncovered. Since then, Armita’s mother has been detained by Iranian officials. She has not...
