Posts tagged three-day strike
Tensions rise as Oregon nurses continue Providence picket
June 24, 2024 // When nurses expressed concerns that they would be turned away from work when they showed up to their shifts on Friday morning, Providence clarified it would notify nurses whether they had been selected to fulfill their shifts via phone calls on Thursday evening. ONA claims doing so is a violation of HB 2697, which “sets minimum safe staffing levels for nurses and allied healthcare workers.” “Providence submitted staffing plans to OHA for approval that were never agreed upon by nurses and were unilaterally adopted by management without the required approval from the nurse staffing committee,” the nurses union said in a public statement. “According to OHA, this action violates Oregon’s staffing law, as ONA-represented nurses have been claiming.
Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition endorses 3-day strike
April 15, 2024 // In January, IGWC submitted 1,300 union cards to Indiana University President Pamela Whitten, per a release. IGWC also asked IU to hold a union election and bargain with the union. The union indicated that its correspondence was not answered by university officials. IGWC led a four-week strike of graduate workers in 2022. That strike resulted in IU raising yearly minimum salaries for graduate workers from $15,000 to $22,000, per a release.
The year of the strike: what’s causing this labor movement and the potential impact
October 16, 2023 // Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows the number of workers striking fell sharply in 2020 and 2021 but then jumped 50 percent last year alone. Labor historians said another factor is the victory after some of these strikes. “As workers do engage in these actions, they encourage each other, to emulate the demands and to emulate the tactics in some ways,” said Joseph McCartin, labor historian at Georgetown University.