Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out. They’re trying to get the company to bargain in good faith after winning union elections in the last year at the three struck locations: Ascension’s…
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UPCOMING EVENTS
UPS Contract Talks Break Down, Practice Picketing Heats Up
by Teamsters for a Democratic Union
UPS walked away from the bargaining table around 4 a.m. on Wednesday after the National Negotiating Committee unanimously rejected the company’s latest substandard offer. The National Negotiating Committee has left…
Michigan Set To Become 1 Out of 5 States Ensuring Free Lunch for Students: A Major Step Towards Eradicating Childhood Hunger in Detroit and Empowering the City’s Youth
Cell-Phone Use While Operating Vehicle Ban Goes Into Law – Taking Effect June 30
On the evening of June 22, members of the United Electrical workers (UE) crowded into Iroquois High School to vote on whether they would accept what their boss was offering them. They are employed by Wabtec (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation), at a four-million-square-foot locomotive manufacturing plant in Lawrence Park, on the east side of Erie, Pennsylvania. Around 6:00 p.m., the verdict was in: Members of…
Sink Or Swim Psalm 69 The Rt. Rev. Dr. Bonnie A. Perry Recorded at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit Visiting: St. Paul’s, Romeo “Our power to change the course of our communities, our countr
Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom and the Ongoing Fight for Equality
City to Implode Smokestack, Completing Yearlong Incinerator Demolition on June 11
Our communities deserve to breathe clean air, and we deserve careful monitoring of the pollutants that enter our atmosphere and the impacts those pollutants are having on our health. Only then can we begin to work towards a cleaner, healthier environment for all.
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Going forward, I would once again have to grope my way through darkness, in search of truth, understanding, and forgiveness. But I would not go quietly into that dark night as so many others had do…
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world; in the United States, close to ten percent of adults struggle with the disease. But because it’s a mental illness, it can be a lot harder to understand than, say, high cholesterol. Helen M. Farrell examines the symptoms and treatments of depression, and gives some tips for how you might help a friend who is suffering.
In Des Moines, Iowa, the militant Local 90 is preparing for what could be the largest strike against a single company in US history.
Examining mental health in communities of color. A profile on medical device company Wareologie. Plus, One Detroit's AAPI Stories series.
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