Hit that seem Sunday, Jan 17 ended around noon today when 1400 Hunts Point approved market workers, Teamsters Local 202 members, overwhelmingly on a three-year contract. The majority of New York City products pass through Hunts Point, making it a critical bottleneck, a fact that has increased pressure on workers for a quick settlement.

Having persevered in the face of aggressive police and freezing temperatures, Al Ittihad declared victory. as such City Reports202, Dan Kane, local chief, described the contract as „the biggest deal we’ve ever signed.“ This morning, about 97% of striking workers voted to validate the contract.

The contract includes an immediate increase of 70 cents an hour, followed by an increase of 50 cents in 2022. For workers who currently earn $ 18.57 an hour, plus drivers, 2023 will see an increase of 65 cents an hour. Warehouse workers who currently earn $ 20.70 will receive a bonus of $ 1,300 in 2023 instead of 65 cents. Workers have also successfully resisted management’s push to make workers pay additional contributions to family health care benefits.

The mantra has been all week: We want an increase of $ 1 an hour. Final contract totals $ 1.85 an hour over the three years of the contract, which is less than demand for an immediate $ 1 an hour increase but exceeds 32 cents an hour and increases employee contributions to health care costs that the administration brought up last weekend, called The workers corresponding „lack of respect“, prompting them to strike.

Until a long week ends on the Bronx strike line that included Arrests Late Monday night, Alexandria rep, Ocasio-Cortez show Several nights in support of workers and serving pizza (she wasn’t the only politician to join the picket line: more than a dozen local elected and political candidates appeared), and lots of music and dancing, all under the watchful eyes of the rat.

But as one action ends in the workplace, the other continues. s400 hard workers at NLMK Pennsylvania are Closed from work After a strike began in August of 2020. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) now Procedure Membership vote on whether to take action in the workplace on Monday in response to the city’s insistence that teachers return to personal tutoring. Teachers in Bellevue, Washington The rebel Against similar demands, while teachers outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are doing so Getting ready Strike on February 1 if no agreement is reached with their region by the end of the month. About 200 Teamsters are Stupendous In the Marathon Oil Refinery in St.Paul Park, workers in Burgers, USA, who supply spare parts for GM plants, Stupendous For several days in Norwalk, Ohio. Ski patrols she „Not on strike, just a practice“ at Vail Resorts.

Some actions in the workplace involve fewer workers than the Teamsters Local 202 strike, which with 1,400 workers marked the first major work stoppage in 2021, but every time people take collective action on the job and win it, the confidence of the working class increases, not Only among those who took the action. In fact, I experienced a Hunts Point hit favorable Among the people who strengthened the picket line in support – other union workers, residents of the Bronx, and New Yorkers who simply heard of the strike and wanted to support it. Every time that happens, regardless of the size of the hit, it has a ripple effect.

A similar dynamic is unfolding in other workplace locations across the country. Add in the context of a devastating isolated pandemic and these courageous manifestations of the collective fight for a better life become even more important.