Highlighting the rise in worker activism, even nonunion pharmacists recently walked off the job and closed multiple CVS Health locations in and around Kansas City. Staffing levels and wages are at the heart of the negotiations between the Oakland-based health care giant and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. The Detroit Casino Council, representing five unions at three city casinos, late Friday said workers overwhelmingly voted to authorize strikes as soon as mid-October when contracts expire.Įlsewhere around the country, more than 75,000 health care workers are threatening a three-day strike starting Wednesday at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical centers in five states and Washington, D.C. Labor unrest in Motor City is not confined to autoworkers. economy from the union's strike's first two weeks. 'When the innocent bystanders begin to feel it, it will affect the generally supportive sentiment Americans have been expressing about the UAW's demands thus far,' Anderson stated Monday in a release that estimates $3.95 billion in total losses to the U.S. The public's mostly warm embrace of striking autoworkers could lessen as its impact spreads to dealers, customers and third-party suppliers who don't have a seat at the bargaining table, according to Patrick Anderson, principal and CEO of Anderson Economic Group, an East Lansing and Chicago-based analysis firm. More than 25,000 unionized workers, or 17% of the labor group's members, have walked off their jobs at Ford, GM and Stellantis (the owner of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, as well major foreign auto brands).

Such grievances underlie the UAW's strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers, now into its third week. There is a common ingredient, however: Much of the upsurge in labor protests is in blue-collar jobs where wages have long lagged productivity and corporate profits, with millions of Americans struggling simply to maintain their standard of living, let alone thrive at time that inflation has sapped households' purchasing power. An important feature of the current labor landscape is that the trend in activism isn't isolated within a cluster of businesses, but is visible across a range of major sectors of the American economy, including transportation, health care and media.

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