On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:06 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7A1H10-l1Y > In a Six-Day Strike, Bronx Produce Workers Doubled Their Raise and Inspired New York by Bianca Cunningham, Labor Notes, Jan. 26 https://labornotes.org/2021/01/six-day-strike-bronx-produce-workers-doubled-their-raise-and-inspired-new-york . . . The new contract includes an immediate raise of 70 cents an hour, followed by a 50-cent raise in 2022. Warehouse workers who currently make $18.57 an hour, as well as all drivers, will see a 65-cents-an-hour raise in 2023. Warehouse workers currently earning $20.70 will receive a $1,300 bonus in 2023 instead of the 65 cents. The strike also stopped the company from increasing what workers pay for family health care benefits. “It’s not the dollar we wanted, but it’s a win,” Jose said, “and next time we will fight even harder. I’m glad we did this, because before we felt like nobody cared about us, nobody knew us. “Now we know that New York City supports Black and immigrant workers, some of us formerly incarcerated, many of us just trying to feed our kids and make a better life for them. “Hopefully other workers will get inspired to fight for what they deserve, by seeing us do it.” -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5946): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5946 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80218477/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
