John,
It’s Hot Labor Summer, and we’ve seen a groundswell of actions from workers fighting for safe working conditions, a living wage, and their right to organize.
From coast to coast, from nursing to entertainment to hotel employees to librarians and more, workers are uniting and demonstrating their strength to billionaire corporations. Let's make sure this momentum goes all the way to the ballot box.
As we prepare for the upcoming elections and work to take back Congress in 2024, the Working Families Party is fighting to elect working people at every level who will stand with organized labor. Can you chip in to grow our movement and elect more candidates who fight for the many, not the few?
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Workers are exercising their power together to win fair working conditions this summer. Over just the last few weeks, we’ve seen:
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) stand strong in their strike against the massive studios and streamers underpaying their workforce and trying to replace workers with AI, with the WGA strike rapidly approaching the 100-day milestone.1
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UPS employees win a tentative agreement which would raise wages, create more full-time positions, and end an unfair two-tier wage system, following a strike threat. Members have until August 22 to vote on the agreement.2
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11,000 Los Angeles city employees stage a 24-hour strike last Tuesday — their first since 1980! — in response to vacant positions, severe staffing shortages, and forced overtime shortchanging city services for residents.3
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Nurses at Rochester General Hospital in New York4 and Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Jersey5 go on strike to demand sufficient staffing that allows nurses to provide patients the care they deserve.
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Hotel workers in Southern California walk out for a living wage, improved conditions, and support for policies to address the housing crisis6 — even in the face of violence from hotel security staff.7
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Marvel visual effects employees file for a union election, which could make them the first union in a field marked by chronic overworking and a lack of worker protections.8
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4,500 San Jose city workers schedule a three-day strike starting August 15 as they organize for wages that allow them to live in the city that they serve.9
Worker power amplifies worker power. That’s why we are standing with working people and the candidates who have their backs. Pitch in now to build a country where one job is enough and serves the many — not the few.
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In solidarity,
Team WFP
Source:
1. As writers’ strike nears 100-day mark, a potential deal with Hollywood studios is nowhere in sight, CNN Business, August 7, 2023
2. UPS workers begin vote on tentative deal that averted US strike, Reuters, August 3, 2023
3. L.A. Hotel Workers Are On Strike To Stem the City’s Housing Crisis
, In These Times, August 8, 2023
4. 'This is for the community': Union vows to continuing fighting after RGH nurses' strike ends, 13 WHAM ABC, August 4, 2023
5. Nurses strike continues at RWJUH, NJBIZ, August 7, 2023
6. L.A. Hotel Workers Are On Strike To Stem the City’s Housing Crisis, In These Times, August 8, 2023
7. Striking hotel workers denounce violence on the picket lines, Los Angeles Daily News, August 7, 2023
8. Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel, Vulture, August 7, 2023
9. Up to 4,500 San Jose employees will go on 3-day strike, Fox KTVU, August 7, 2023
