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Buffalo Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form First-Ever Starbucks Union
Workers at the Elmwood location in Buffalo voted 19 to 8 to form a union.
Calls for Boycott Grow After Kellogg Says It’s Permanently Replacing Strikers
Workers have said they have to work over 80 hours a week with little room to receive raises for newer employees.
As Columbia’s Endowment Grows to $14 Billion, Student Workers Demand Living Wage
Three thousand student workers at New York City’s Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike.
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.