Labor Week For August 4, 2023

Yellow Trucking is shutting down, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 272-to-1 last year, and the studios are FINALLY going back to the table with the Writers Guild. This is Labor Week for August 4th 2023 – powered by the Labor Radio Podcast Network.   Articles mentioned in this episode:   Yellow Lays Off a Swath of Its Workforce, Winds Down Operations   TEAMSTERS NOTIFIED THAT YELLOW CORP. OPERATING COMPANIES HAVE CLOSED   The Yellow trucking company meltdown, explained   Labour minister threatens possibility of imposed agreement after B.C. port workers reject latest deal   TEAMSTERS AT TFORCE FREIGHT RATIFY NATIONAL AGREEMENT   Starbucks News: https://vxtwitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1686891849917890560   https://twitter.com/WorkersUnitedMA/status/1685328956394704898?s=20   https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1686873113555075079   https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1687203603906449408   Long Island Starbucks Workers March on Boss Who Fired One of Their Own   https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1687657695426564096   6 CT restaurants owe their workers pay, Dept. of Labor says   Union workers at the Convention Center BV launched our first ULP strike of the year   Solid State Books Workers Ratify First Union Contract   Tentative union agreement averts strike at 6 Twin Cities area Kowalski's grocery stores   Kowalski’s Markets workers to get $2-$4 per hour raises under new contract   Powell's Workers, Fed Up With "Poverty Wages," Move Closer to a Strike   Uber-Backed Group to Reboot Gig-Worker Ballot Initiative in Massachusetts   Instacart just slashed pay for delivery drivers — from a minimum of $7 per order to $4. Now they're more reliant on your tips.   https://twitter.com/IWOrganizing/status/1686110039038128135?t=yoXaV3JbhRRv8e