OSHA Starts Crack Down on Southern Poultry Plants, But Will Non-Union Workers Talk?
OSHA fined a Tyson’s chicken plant in Center, Texas $263,498 for two repeated violations and 15 serious safety violations.
1st Florida Paper Unionizes – Unpaid Sailors Stranded Off Georgia Coast – Feds Enforce Immigration Laws, Ignore Workplace Dangers – #EqualPlayEqualPay – #FireGardenhire
JP Sings about Berniecrat Khristy Wilkinson, TDU, & #law360union #firegardenhire
Featuring “Singing to the Choir” and a rewritten version of the classic.
Yuuuge Birdiecrat Upset in Tenn State Senate Primary – Anti-Union Southwest CEO in Trouble – Job Numbers – #FireGardenhire
JP Covers “Which Side Are You On?” and Dedicates a Song to Bill Moyer and Bill McKibben
Along with songs, this episode also features poetry about contemporary life on the railroad from one of JP’s fellow locomotive engineers.
OSHA Issues Landmark Citation Against “Medical Mismanagement” in Northern Florida Poultry Plant
OSHA issued a citation against a Pilgrim’s Pride chicken slaughterhouse and processing facility for, among other serious violations, failing to promptly refer injured workers to medical attention.
Nashville Ironworkers Strike over Water – Uber, the Big Winner at DNC – #Law360Union Shames Union Busting – IAM Fights BLS Contractor in Georgia
While the workers at the Philly airport made some headway, unionized taxi drivers took a hit as Uber and Lyft were given special permission to operate during the DNC.
Millennial Sanders Activists Give New Energy to Southern Organizing
Across the South, activists say that the Sanders movement has given them energy to push against the issues of economic and racial inequality that plague even Democratic-leaning cities, such as Chattanooga.
JP Talks More about Bluegrass and Blues and Sings the Coal Report
In this hump day edition of the Folk Labor Desk, JP continues a discussion he started in last week’s Lunch Pail about the relationship between blues and…
Labor & DNC – #BlackLivesMatter – SEIU Marching on Confederate Monuments – Louisville Teachers
As some union members protest police violence, others are the subject of the protests. This week, under the #FreedomNow banner, activists staged actions at police unions in New York City; Oakland, CA; Washington, DC; Detroit; Chicago; St. Louis; Chattanooga, TN; Long Beach, CA; and Cleveland.
130 Law360 Journalists Opt to Join NewsGuild as Digital Media Unionization Movement Grows
With workers having already successfully won first contracts at Vice and Gawker, perhaps a second wave of digital media unionization is about to begin at more mainstream media outlets. However, workers at those publications face far steeper odds, as the outlets tend to be owned by corporations that have deeper pockets and are less worried about the backlash of left-leaning readers.