Earlier this month, CEO Elon Musk boasted about Tesla’s plans to sell the new Model 3 to a half a million customers. He said Tesla would go through “production hell” to complete these orders. “Production hell” in the c-suite looks very different than “production hell” on the factory floor, where rate of injury is 31% higher than the industry average according to a Worksafe report this year. The report also showed the rate of serious injuries was DOUBLE the industry average in 2015.
Read MoreUnions Must Be on the Front Lines of Fight against Racial, Economic Injustice
Labor Day is both a celebration of American workers and an important reminder of the role unions play in giving working people power to address not only their issues at the workplace, but larger societal ills that have a cascading effect on everyone.
Read MoreDefending Our House: Local 1245 Public Sector Members Gear Up to Fight Back Against Anti-Union Attacks
On Tuesday, August 22, IBEW 1245 members from across the public sector packed Weakley Hall to learn about the growing attack on public sector unions and IBEW 1245’s strategy to defend and build our house through Volunteer Organizing Committees (VOC) at each of our public employers.
Read MoreTime to Act on Affordable Housing Bills
The lack of affordable housing in California is a crisis that should be a top priority for the state legislature. In community after community, working people are being squeezed out by rapidly increasing housing costs. It’s a primary cause of poverty and homelessness, it increases carbon emissions by forcing workers into longer commutes and it forces firefighters, police and teachers to live outside of the cities they serve.
Read MoreTeamsters on Strike at Vistar Foodservice for Equal Pay & Respect
Teamster warehouse workers and drivers who work at Vistar Foodservice’s distribution facility have been on strike since last week after more than a year of unsuccessful negotiations with the company. The 85 warehouse workers and drivers are members of Teamsters Local 630 in Los Angeles and are calling attention to ongoing pay discrimination against women and other unfair labor practices at Vistar, a division of Performance Food Group.
Read More#ImagineJustice: Fixing our Broken Criminal Justice System
Yesterday, I joined Common, J Cole, Andra Day, and others in raising our voices to bring about change to a clearly broken criminal justice system that long ago failed to accomplish its intended goal of rehabilitation.
Read MoreAs Solar Power Gets Eclipsed, Enter the IBEW
While millions of Americans will be outside looking up at Monday’s total eclipse, hundreds of IBEW utility members will keep the lights on as the sky goes dark.
Read MoreThe Answer to Exploding Inequality: Working People Standing Together
The New York Times published a chart this week that perfectly summarizes how the United States has gone from the having the healthiest middle class in the world to a land of increasing economic inequality that shuts off far too many families from the American Dream.
Read MoreElectric buses = more good, union jobs for low-income Californians
While the creation of new, clean economy jobs is booming, not all clean energy workers—particularly blue collar workers—thrive in these new jobs. Too often, many do not earn a living wage that can take care of their families; many do not receive healthcare benefits and many do not have adequate safety protections at work. Worse yet, people of color and residents from low income and disadvantaged communities do not always get access to these new jobs.
Read MoreDowntown LA Dignity Health Docs to Hospital: Where’s the dignity in taking away affordable healthcare for our families?
Around 30 physicians and nurses rallied this week outside California Hospital Medical Center, a Dignity Health facility. The hospital’s 24 Family Medicine residents organized a “Unity Break” and press conference during their lunch in response to the hospital’s proposal to increase healthcare costs for its employees by up to $2,100 a year, with an […]
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