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Domestic Care for Family Members Isn’t Valued if Its Givers Are Exploited
Mostly foreign-born women, domestic workers have been excluded from labor protections that workers in the rest of the economy take for granted. A growing movement calling for domestic workers …
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Labor in History: Mobtown and the Stirring of America’s Unions
Many historians date the first great industrial upheaval of American labor to July 16, 1877.
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Pro-Marijuana Canvassers Strike Over Unpaid Wages
A crew of nine marijuana legalization canvassers walked off their jobs and into the Portland office of the Industrial Workers of the World looking to form a union.
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Will German Workers Declare Independence?
The goal of the union cooperative is 100 percent worker-ownership, with each worker purchasing and owning an equal share.
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Working Families Party Betrayal
In New York or Illinois or anywhere else in the country, working people have few champions in the smoked-filled rooms of politics.
Unions Boost Women’s Earnings, Benefits, and Workplace Flexibility
Over the past four decades, women have played increasingly important roles as breadwinners in their families. At the same time, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has …
The Big Money Behind California’s Tenure Lawsuit
A bevy of venture capitalists, charter investors and Obama administration officials invested in the education reform agenda materialize as part of the swirling, multimillion-dollar brew of the Vergara lawsuit..
CTUL Declares Victory in Breakthrough Worker Protections for Janitors at Target Stores
Target Corporation changes course to implement workers' rights policy in contracted cleaning at stores after four years of CTUL organizing
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A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure
In much the same way that vouchers and charters have been sold via civil rights language, so too was Vergara v. California argued in court and marketed to the …
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Will the First Hotel Housekeeper on a City Council Shame Rhode Island Democrats Into Allowing a Just Wage?
The first housekeeper elected to the city council in Providence, Rhode Island may be the voice needed to push local officials to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers.