Janitors, fast-food workers, nursing home employees and gig-economy drivers rallied across the nation Monday in union-organized protests to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. margotroosevelt reports:
The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a wave of labor unrest harnessing front-line workers’ fear and anger across California and the nation.
in protecting rogue law enforcement officers went unmentioned. Also not in the spotlight were apprentice systems that tend to favor white workers, especially in unions representing firefighters, dockworkers and construction workers.But although racial prejudice persists in the union movement as it does in corporate America, Wong said, Monday’s protests show “the beginning of a much more comprehensive movement-building strategy that aligns worker justice and racial justice.
Monday’s protests were endorsed by several other unions, including the Communications Workers of America, the United Farm Workers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Amalgamated Transit Union.
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