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If approved by union members, the agreement — achieved after mediation with Mayor Karen Bass — could prevent campuses from being closed again to 420,000 students and spare workers from job actions that would have been difficult to bear.
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Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Faculty also were forming picket lines at the California State University system’s 21 other campuses in a job action that comes during the opening days of the spring semester.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
As labor negotiations have dragged on and union members have staged job actions, some nervous retailers and manufacturers have rerouted goods, causing imports and exports through the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to fall in recent months.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Unions have been successfully flexing their muscles throughout 2023, with the United Auto Workers and the Writers Guild of America also getting better contracts after job actions.
—Jena McGregor, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Faculty also were forming picket lines at the California State University system’s 21 other campuses in a job action that comes during the opening days of the spring semester.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
As labor negotiations have dragged on and union members have staged job actions, some nervous retailers and manufacturers have rerouted goods, causing imports and exports through the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to fall in recent months.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Unions have been successfully flexing their muscles throughout 2023, with the United Auto Workers and the Writers Guild of America also getting better contracts after job actions.
—Jena McGregor, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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“Job action.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/job%20action. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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