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Welcome to the July edition of Take Five!

We're deep into the Summer months and there is something in the air: worker solidarity. Writers, actors, hotel and fast food workers, delivery drivers and more are fighting back against corporate greed. 650,000 Americans are ready to strike, or already have. It's a #HotStrikeSummer! 🔥

Below you can learn how the Jobs With Justice network is showing up with workers, ways you can plug in, and more. 

In Solidarity,

Jobs With Justice

North Bay Jobs With Justice continues their campaign to pressure the wine industry to step up and provide disaster pay for farmworkers. 

"Whether it's wildfires, floods, extreme heat – farmworkers are the first impacted by climate-change fueled disasters. And yet the multi-billion dollar wine industry continues making profits year after year. That’s why Sonoma County farmworkers are organizing to win DISASTER PAY – compensation for lost hours and hazard pay when working conditions are dangerous.

With so many historic victories already won last year, workers have the momentum. And when we fight, we win!" 

Follow their campaign and find updates on Instagram.

Chicago JWJ is on TikTok and they've just launched a new series called the ABC's of Workers' Rights!

Most recently, they discussed wage theft with Fidel Arroyo, Jr. from the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division.

Tune in and follow here!

"For the past two years, higher prices have made life harder for working families and retirees. But today’s cost-of-living woes may only be the tip of the iceberg. America’s retirees and those approaching their retirement years face deep uncertainties about their golden years." Read more.

"In the middle of Amazon’s Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery station in Pontiac, Michigan—bringing the facility to the brink of a total shutdown." Read more.

"As Andrea Hsu reports at NPR, after losing in December union workers at CSX immediately brought the subject back up to management, demanding again and again some movement on paid leave, which led to reopened negotiations and media coverage. Sure enough, in early February CSX gave in to two unions, granting some 5,000 workers four days of paid leave, as well as the option to convert up to three personal days into sick days." Read more.

Thousands of southern California workers have launched the largest hotel strike in modern history. Workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 11 are currently on their third wave of strikes. Locate striking hotels, adopt a picket line, and find other ways to tap into mutual aid for the workers at https://linktr.ee/uh11mutualaidcommittee.

SEIU-UHW delivered a picket notice to Kaiser Permanente management last week!

Less than three months away from their contract expiration, tens of thousands of healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente will hold pickets to protest the short staffing crisis and its effects on patients and caregivers. The pickets will take place at 50 facilities across California, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, and will start July 24 and run through July 29. Read the full press release here.

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