LA Bikeshare Workers Ratify Industry-Leading Agreement
On March 10, 2023, workers employed at Bicycle Transit Systems voted 97% in favor of an industry-leading first contract that includes pay...
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SSDS
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Prop 22: Appeals Court Delivers Disappointment to App-based Workers
Justices in California’s First Court of Appeals delivered a partial blow to working families in a decision that upheld the...
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SSDS
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Graduate Student Workers at USC vote to Unionize
By a 93% margin, graduate workers at the University of Southern California have voted 1,599 to 122 in favor of unionization. The victory...
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SSDS
- Mar 27
- 2 min
NLRB Rules Against Overly Broad Severance Agreements
In McLaren Macomb, 372 N.L.R.B. No. 58 (2023), the NLRB held that overly broad non-disclosure and non-disparagement provisions in...
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SSDS
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Fred Ross Jr. Remembered
On February 26, 2023, over 650 family members, friends, and fellow activists came together from all over the Country to Delancey Street...
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SSDS
- Mar 27
- 2 min
SSDS Attorney Appointed to Santa Monica Personnel Board
Melanie Luthern Allen was appointed by the Santa Monica City Council to sit on the five-member Personnel Board. The Personnel Board is an...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
MINIMUM WAGE HIKE IN EFFECT
On January 1, 2023, the minimum wage in California increased to $15.50 an hour for both large and small businesses. In addition, many...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
SSDS TO CELEBRATE LIFE OF FRED ROSS JR. ON FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Please join us in celebrating the life of Fred Ross Jr., a member of the SSDS family, and husband to Managing Partner Margo Feinberg. A...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
CITY OF LOS ANGELES PASSES UFCW LOCAL 770-SPONSORED FAIR WORK WEEK ORDINANCE
On November 22, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring retailers with 300 or more employees globally to give their...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
OVER 300 PRODUCTION WORKERS AT DAILY’S PREMIUM MEATS JOIN UFCW DISTRICT UNION LOCAL 2
Three hundred production workers in St. Joseph, Missouri joined UFCW District Union Local 2 after a card check authorization election...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
GRADUATE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND RAND CORPORATION FILE REPRESENTATION
On the heels of impressive gains for academic student and postdoctoral workers at the University of California, workers at two other...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
NICKELODEON PRODUCTION WORKERS SET TO AUTHORIZE THE ANIMATION GUILD AS BARGAINING REPRESENTATIVE
A super-majority of animation production workers at Nickelodeon Animation Studios submitted authorization cards in support of The...
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SSDS
- Jan 23
- 1 min
UAW WORKERS AT UC RATIFY INDUSTRY LEADING CONTRACTS, ENDING THE LARGEST STRIKE OF THE YEAR WITH HIST
Forty days into the largest strike of the year, and the largest strike ever at any institute of higher education, 36,000 academic student...
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SSDS
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
48,000 ACADEMIC WORKERS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA STRIKE
Academic employees, including Teaching Assistants, Graduate Student Researchers, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers, across all ten...
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SSDS
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
UFCW LOCAL 770 PRESIDENT JOHN GRANT RETIRES AFTER 46 YEARS
UFCW Local 770 President John Grant announced his retirement in September in a powerful speech at the Local’s Executive Board Meeting. A...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
SCOTUS GRANTS CERTIORARI IN GLACIER NORTHWEST
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, a case...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
KATHY FINN ELECTED PRESIDENT
SSDS extends its warmest congratulations to a dear friend and ally, UFCW Local 770 President Kathy Finn on her election. President Finn...
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SSDS
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
UFCW LOCALS OPPOSE KROGER-ALBERTSONS MERGER
UFCW 5, 7, 324, 367, 770, 3000 have openly opposed the proposed merger between Albertsons and Kroger, which would result in the...
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SSDS
- Nov 14, 2022
- 1 min
NLRB REINSTATES POST-CONTRACT DUES CHECKOFF
In Valley Hospital II, the NLRB ruled that dues checkoff must continue after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement until a...
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