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McGraw Hill Rejects Calls to Stop Charging Its Freelancers a Fee in Order to Get Paid

Leave a Comment / Freelance, labor / By max cyril

The revelation that McGraw Hill (MH), a multibillion-dollar educational publishing company, has begun charging its freelancers and independent contractors a fee in order to get paid has prompted a wave of public outrage, along with a letter from advocacy groups demanding that the company end the practice. The company’s response: No. Two weeks ago, In These Times reported on the existence of the 2.2% fee that the company …

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Judge tosses Trump-era pork processing speed-up, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Agriculture, President Trump / By max cyril

Line speeds in meat processing plants are a classic example of something that’s simultaneously a worker safety issue and a consumer safety issue. And this week, both workers and consumers got a major victory when a federal judge threw out a Trump-era rule allowing pork processing plants to operate at higher speeds. According to U.S. District Judge …

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Alabama Amazon organizing drive is a case study in why it’s so important to pass the PRO Act

Leave a Comment / PRO Act, union mobilizing / By max cyril

The recent organizing drive by workers at an Alabama Amazon warehouse has drawn an unusual amount of attention to a union representation election, and for good reason—Amazon is a massive employer that has successfully beaten back multiple organizing efforts in the United States. Even the possibility of a union win, in Alabama of all places, is …

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Unions demand Biden cancel student debt for public service workers

Leave a Comment / Public Workers, unions / By max cyril

Labor unions are making a new push to get the Education Department to use executive action to forgive the student loans of Americans working in public service jobs — the latest pressure from the left for the Biden administration to act more aggressively on student debt relief. A wide range of unions representing teachers, fire …

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Success in the Tech Industry: Worker Wins

Leave a Comment / technology, unions / By max cyril

Despite the challenges of organizing during a deadly pandemic, working people across the country (and beyond) continue organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. This edition begins with: CODE-CWA’s Tech Industry Organizing Efforts Lead to Union Recognition at Mobilize: Workers at Mobilize, a community-organizing app, announced the formation of a new union as part of …

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Citing Unfair Labor Practices, 1,300 Steelworkers Strike in Five States

Leave a Comment / Strike, unions / By max cyril

At 7:00 AM on Tuesday, March 30, 1,300Steelworkers employed by Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) walked out in protest at facilities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The strike comes just over a year after United Steelworkers began negotiations with ATI. According to a statement released that day, the union is dissatisfied with company demands for ?“major economic and contract language concessions.” United …

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: IAM Supports Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act

Leave a Comment / health care, workplace violence / By max cyril

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. In a letter to House leadership, Machinists (IAM) International President Robert Martinez Jr. urged representatives …

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: UMWA Goes on Strike at Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining, Strike / By max cyril

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Unless the parties can reach a last-minute agreement, the Mine Workers (UMWA) union is launching …

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For union battling Amazon, victory could bring a stalemate

Leave a Comment / union mobilizing, unions / By max cyril

For the union trying to organize nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, a successful election in the coming weeks could only be the beginning of the struggle to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the company. Workers at the fulfillment center in Bessemer, a Birmingham suburb, have been voting since late February …

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Get the Federal Government to Fund Union Organizing. Now.

Leave a Comment / Federal Government, unions / By max cyril

Though you wouldn’t know it from the actions of the federal government over the past half century, it is the stated policy of the federal government to ?“encourage collective bargaining.” It’s right there in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Unions and their political supporters have typically taken this to mean that collective bargaining rights should …

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