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Low Wages and Exploitative Conditions Are Sparking Graduate Student Strikes
Whatever gains the striking union at Columbia University wins will be looked to as a model by other campus efforts.
After Big Win in Buffalo, Starbucks Workers in Massachusetts File to Unionize
If the workers are successful, they’ll be among the first Starbucks stores to form a union.
Progressive Lawmakers Signal Support for Four-Day Workweek Proposal
The 40-hour week has been the standard for nearly 90 years -- but labor advocates say it’s time for a change.
Build Back Better Could Help End Subminimum Wages for People With Disabilities
The subminimum wage allows employers to pay people with disabilities cents on the hour for their work.
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Celebrate Starbucks Workers’ Historic Union Victory
Workers at the Elmwood, Buffalo Starbucks location have voted overwhelmingly to form a union.
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.