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Baristas in Buffalo Are Poised to Unionize Using Starbucks’s Own PR Against It
Workers United members say their union drive may succeed tomorrow in part by turning Starbucks's own PR against it.
Marginalized Workers Facing Labor Market Discrimination See Largest Jobs Gains
The most disadvantaged workers are seeing the greatest declines in unemployment.
United Auto Workers Members Overwhelmingly Vote to Democratize Board Elections
The reform measure allows members to vote for members of the union’s board directly, rather than through a delegate.
Our Fast Supply Chain Put Workers’ Lives at Risk. Let’s Not Bring It Back.
There are good reasons that so many people are walking away from underpaid, life-threatening work.
Disability Advocates Give Tepid Welcome to Build Back Better’s Home Care Funding
The investment is half of what was originally promised and is unlikely to address long waiting lists and low wages.
Workers Deserved Bernie’s Build Back Better, But They’ll Likely Get Manchin’s
The obstacle to the working class achieving real gains is neoliberal ideas that distort the reality of workers' lives.
A Unionization Wave Is Reshaping Museums and Cultural Institutions Across the US
This rarefied world of cultural institutions is rife with the same exploitation within other corporate hierarchies.
We Work Too Damn Much. Let’s Demand a 4-Day Workweek by 2022.
A four-day workweek would make time to rebalance our lives and also create space for collective action to thrive.
Starbucks Requests Last-Minute Delay in Union Vote Set for This Week
With a union vote this week, the company’s union-busting tactics have grown ever more desperate.
India Walton’s Mayoral Defeat in Buffalo Sets Dangerous Precedents for the Left
Byron Brown’s victory is a grim lesson about the lengths to which power will go to protect profit and capital.