LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025
Top Stories: IATSE strike closes two theaters; More doctors unionize; Staff is striking at eight Oregon hospitals; Mozilla to pay $300K for refusing to hire Apple organizer & dozens more articles...
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If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents. — Samuel Gompers, 1915
Here are today’s Top Stories…
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Atlantic Theater Company Closes Two Off Broadway Productions Amidst Stagehands Strike
The Atlantic Theater Company, one of Off Broadway’s most celebrated theaters, has officially closed two new, previewing productions – Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp and Mona Pirnot’s I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan – amidst an ongoing strike by the stagehands union IATSE.
3rd Philadelphia physician group votes to unionize
In what is becoming a harbinger of growing labor unrest among physicians, a third group of Philadelphia physicians has voted to join a union. Resident physicians and fellows at Jefferson Health voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, the committee said in a Jan. 14 Facebook post.
Nurses and Doctors Are on Strike at Eight Oregon Hospitals
Declaring that understaffing had them “running on empty,” 5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.
Mozilla will pay $300K for refusing to hire activist Apple engineer
Mozilla has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a National Labor Relations Board case claiming that it illegally refused to hire a former Apple software engineer who says the tech giant forced her to quit over her workplace activism.
