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Thousands of Minnesota nurses ready to strike for safe staffing and respect
As the CEOs dug in their heels throughout the five months of negotiations, MNA members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a…
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Atlantic City casino workers win big
Members of UNITE HERE Local 54, the largest of the unions representing workers in Atlantic City’s casinos, have now won…
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Commercial production workers launch historic union drive
Thousands of TV commercial production workers across the United States are in the midst of a historic union drive to…
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Minneapolis Trader Joe’s workers win union election
The workers overwhelmingly voted in favor of unionizing by a margin of 55 to 5.
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Academic workers picket at UC San Diego against unjust firing of pregnant worker
Dr. Li Jiang, a post-doctoral researcher in the Pathology Department, is facing non-renewal of her position (essentially a firing), after…
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‘We move this city!’: Striking D.C. transit workers fight corporate giant and win
Transit workers from the Washington DC-metropolitan area reached a tentative agreement with management after a nine-day strike.
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New York City taxi workers are fighting for raises and job security
The central demand of the drivers is raising wages to $25 per hour in take-home pay, after all expenses such…
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Hyundai Motor Company exposed for using child labor
In Luverne, Alabama — the self-styled “Friendliest City in the South” — a Reuters report found that a subsidiary of…
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IUOE Local 150 wins big after seven week strike
After walking the picket lines for seven weeks, 300 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 voted…
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Starbucks union wave comes to Houston
The Montrose Starbucks is the first store to unionize in Houston, and it has the potential to inspire other Starbucks…
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