Grocery Stand Up Strike Expands

Philly city workers prepare to strike at midnight

News and Views

• Nearly 12 million Americans would lose their health care under the Senate Republicans’ budget bill, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The bill includes the biggest cuts to the social safety net since the 1990s.

• Philadelphia city workers represented by District Council 33 are preparing to go on strike at midnight.

• The Teamsters are pressing UPS to roll out heat protections negotiated in their 2023 union contract – namely air-conditioned vehicles, which the company has been slow-walking. Meanwhile, companies are lobbying Trump’s federal workplace safety agency to pass a watered-down federal heat standard. (The Biden administration had proposed a more robust protection, and the Trump administration has indicated that it will finalize a version of that rule.) Trump’s pick to lead OSHA is a former Amazon and UPS executive, with a terrible track record on safety issues. Sixteen states are considering measures to protect workers from extreme heat, but only a handful have protections on the books.

• 38 Safeway stores in Colorado have now joined their version of the stand-up strike.

Today’s Win

• Fresh off the three-week Pratt & Whitney strike in Connecticut, 360 workers at Pratt in West Virginia have filed for an election with the IAM. This showcases an essential and oft-overlooked truth: when we fight, we win.