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Outgoing Boris Johnson Government Passes Anti-Union Law Amid Looming Strike Wave
Since 1973, it has been illegal in the U.K. for employment agencies to farm out workers to break strikes -- until now.
Starbucks Union Starts Workers’ Fund After Firing of Over 50 Pro-Union Workers
Starbucks has reached “historic levels of union busting,” workers say.
Federal Minimum Wage Hasn’t Been Raised in 13 Years
Progressives are urging Democrats to raise the pay floor as inflation continues to diminish workers' purchasing power.
Amid Eviction Crisis, Organizers Win Right to Legal Representation for Tenants
A right to counsel in eviction cases exerts an outsize impact as an intervention in housing injustice.
Starbucks Workers Officially Reach 200 Union Election Victories
Starbucks Workers United reached the milestone after a Cleveland, Ohio, store won a campaign on Friday.
Lululemon Workers in DC Become the Latest to Join Retail Union Wave
If they’re successful, the workers could be the first of the company’s 315 locations to unionize.
Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements
Ongoing organizing in the labor movement could have enormous implications for curbing the climate crisis.
Sanders Moves to Limit $76 Billion in “Corporate Welfare” for Microchip Industry
Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to rein in federal subsidies and tax credits to the private companies.
The Value of the Federal Minimum Wage Is at a 66-Year Low
Every day of inaction from Congress extends the longest period in history without a federal minimum wage raise.
Report: CEOs Are Driving “Greedflation,” Raising Prices to Pay Themselves More
In 2021, CEO pay rose 18.2 percent. Workers' wages rose 4.7 percent.