Oregon’s striking nurses: ‘Patients over profits’ ( www.workers.org )
Providence, one of Oregon’s largest corporations, owns one-quarter of Oregon’s health care market. The yearly income of Providence CEOs has risen to $10 million. The nurses are being offered a 7% raise the first year and only 3% in subsequent years, less than the annual rate of inflation....
Bronx Pride March: ‘There is no pride in genocide’ ( www.workers.org )
As anti-imperialist Bronxites, we reject the bourgeois co-optation of queer revolt, the Zionist attempt to pinkwash the genocide in Gaza and the consistent pushing out of Bronxites by capitalist real estate developers....
Suicides rates among US construction and mine workers at alarming levels ( www.wsws.org )
An analysis published last December by the CDC, based on data collected in 2021, reported that the suicide rates in these industries are nearly double the average of all occupations and the highest of 20 industry groups examined....
Amazon Labor Union, Teamsters take on world’s largest online retailer ( www.workers.org )
The affiliation agreement gives the ALU the exclusive right to organize other New York City area Amazon facilities into the Teamsters union, which has pledged an initial $8 million toward that effort....
