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2020-09-20Workers From Fiver Spyhouse Locations Went on Strike
Workers from five Spyhouse locations went on strike to demand recognition of their union, Unite Here Local 17, and improve COVID-19 safety conditions. Spyhouse owner, Christian Johnson, has hired a PR firm and lawyers with the intention of disrupting the unionization effort. The owner, through a PR firm, declined to comment on Saturday's strike. Spyhouse workers are part of a growing new labor movement of hospitality workers in Minnesota. In recent months, workers from Tattersall, Lawless, Surly, Fair State, and Stillheart have collectively organized into a union to create more equitable workplace environments. -
2020-06-03Bite Back Rent Strike Poster
A sign hanging outside a grocery store reads "Bite Back Rent Strike A E May Day." During the pandemic, many people are unable to work or earn income and attempts have been made to organize a rent strike. -
2020-04-29Stand With Striking Workers Digital Poster
A digital poster outlining the demands of workers in the online shopping/delivery/grocery staging a one day strike to urge the public to boycott the companies involved on the day of the strike. -
05/18/2020Still Perkin' Employee Strike Flyer, New Orleans, LA
A flyer describing why Still Perkin' employees are on strike after being called back to work during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the public can support them. Striking workers demand hazard pay, paid sick leave, PPE, safety protocols, and adherence to phase 1 safety guidelines. The Still Perkin' strikers connect their struggle to that of all New Orleans Hospitality works and striking sanitation workers. -
05/18/2020City Waste Union Solidarity Press Conference, New Orleans, LA
Socially distanced press conference in support of striking hoppers organized by the City Waste Union held in front of City Hall. Hoppers (a.k.a. garbage collectors excluding drivers) employed by Metro Services Group through a temp agency are on strike and have subsequently been fired. The hoppers are on strike to demand PPE and hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic. Metro Services Group replaced striking hoppers with prison laborers who are paid below minimum wage. -
05/18/2020City Waste Union Solidarity Press Conference at City Hall, New Orleans, LA
Socially distanced press conference in support of striking hoppers organized by the City Waste Union held in front of City Hall. Hoppers (a.k.a. garbage collectors excluding drivers) employed by Metro Services Group through a temp agency are on strike and have subsequently been fired. The hoppers are on strike to demand PPE and hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic. Metro Services Group replaced striking hoppers with prison laborers who are paid below minimum wage. -
05/18/2020City Waste Union Solidarity Press Conference Flyer, New Orleans, LA
A digital flyer for the Solidarity Press Conference organized by the City Waste Union. Hoppers (a.k.a. garbage collectors excluding drivers) employed by Metro Services Group through a temp agency are on strike and have subsequently been fired. The hoppers are on strike to demand PPE and hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic. Metro Services Group replaced striking hoppers with prison laborers who are paid below minimum wage. -
05/04/2020Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon VP Resigns and Makes Statement about Workers
This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing The resignation of the VP of Amazon and also detailing a statement he made about Amazon firing workers who had protested their poor treatment during the pandemic. -
04/23/2020Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon Protests Continue
This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing more protests against the continuing poor treatment/lack of extra protections provided to Amazon workers -
2020-04-20Treatment of Essential Workers: Amazon Skip Day
This project aims to document the treatment and reactions to the treatment of the essential workers during this pandemic. This is the headline of an article describing A nationwide protest of Amazon workers where they are going to refuse to go into work, as a protest for the still poor working conditions and lacking benefits for the workers. -
2020-03-20Rent Strike
Thousands of residential renters plan to stop paying their landlords from April 2020 in a nationwide strike as government negotiations stall. -
03/28/2020Defaced rent strike sign in Chicago
The remnants of a flyer taped to a lamp post in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, advertising a rent strike against MAC Properties, one of Hyde Park's biggest leasing companies. Before being mostly ripped down, the flyer read "MAC tenants, organized" and included an image of an apartment building with the words "keep your rent, April 1." -
03/26/2020Rent strike poster
A flyer taped to a lamp post in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood advertises a rent strike against MAC Properties, one of Hyde Park's biggest leasing companies. The flyer reads "MAC tenants, organized" and includes an image of an apartment building with the words "keep your rent, April 1." -
2020-03-30Whole Foods Employees
This series documents the treatment of vital workers -
2020-03-25Rent Strike
Graffiti in Jamaica Plain regarding a rent strike during the pandemic. -
NALos Angeles Tenants Union: Rent Forgiveness Guide for Tenants Unable to Pay Rent During Covid19
This resource is an open guide published by the Los Angeles Tenants Union that seeks to inform tenants about their rites, and encourage them to undertake a rent strike if they should have to choose between paying for rent or paying for food during the pandemic. For many people, a lack of work has made access to funds for living expenses more difficult. #HIST5241 -
2020-03-27Instacart Gig Workers Are Planning a Nationwide Strike
News article about a planned strike of Instacart workers who are calling for hazard pay of an additional $5 an order, free safety gear (hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and soap) to workers, and paid sick leave to include workers with pre-existing conditions who have been advised by their doctors not to work at this time.