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The New Labor Movement Is Young, Worker-Led and Winning

From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in historically unorganized occupations are forming unions—and breathing new life into the U.S. labor movement. This year, May Day was celebrated during a historic moment for the American labor movement. Nearly every day, news reports announce another example of workers exercising their rights as nonprofit …

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Starbucks is very unhappy about all the customers ordering drinks under the name ‘Union Strong’

labor, unions / By max cyril

Starbucks keeps escalating its anti-union campaign, taking it ever more public and more blatant. From quietly shifting national-level managers into the first stores where workers organized, to firing pro-union workers, to interim CEO Howard Schultz whining volubly about the “assault” on Starbucks, the company has ratcheted up and up, and it’s not stopping. This week, Starbucks announced pay …

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The Campus Workers Withdrawing Their Consent

labor, union mobilizing, unions / By max cyril

A conversation with student and graduate employees about why workers are simultaneously on strike at two universities. Right now, a majority of residential advisers at Kenyon College, organized with the Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee, are on an indefinite strike over unfair labor practices. At the same time, over 1,750 graduate student workers at Indiana University with the …

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Speed Grocery Delivery Workers Are in a Dangerous Race

gig economy, labor / By max cyril

A new industry of venture-capital-backed startups claim their workers are fast. Are they faster than regulations? NEW YORK?—?Anthony Hom offers tips to delivery workers on his YouTube channel, Ride With Anthony. In one 15-minute, day-in-the-life video titled ?“Delivering Groceries Almost Kills Worker NYC,” Hom records himself on an electric bicycle delivering groceries through the streets of Manhattan, …

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Amazon moves its army of union-busters to the next warehouse over, this week in the war on workers

labor, NLRB, unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

Following the Amazon Labor Union’s huge win in Staten Island, they’re going for it again. Workers at another, smaller warehouse—called LDJ5—will begin voting on April 25, and Amazon is once again going hard with its union-busting campaign. “All those union-busters that were there to union-bust 8,000 workers at JFK8 have walked across the street and are …

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A Hotline Garment Workers Can Call When They Face Harassment on the Job

labor, sexual harassment, Workplace Conditions / By max cyril

When women who sew clothes for famous brands are harassed, there is a new place for them to turn. MASERU, LESOTHO?—?When Nthabiseng Moshoeshoe’s supervisor told her he loved her, they were alone in a room where they both worked at a blue jeans factory in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, she says. It was early 2021. She was emptying …

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Wisconsin AFL-CIO Supports Striking UAW Members at Vollrath Manufacturing

labor, Strike, unions / 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. On April 4, more than 250 members of UAW Local 1472 went on strike at …

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Unions Stand With Exploited Immigrants Demolition Workers in NYC

Health & Safety, labor, unions, wage theft / By max cyril

A conversation with Chaz Rynkiewicz, vice president of Laborers Local 79. With Laborers Local 79 leading the charge, union demolition workers, construction workers, carpenters, bricklayers, and more have rallied multiple times in the past month outside the Chelsea Terminal Warehouse in New York City to protest the mishandling of workers’ pensions and the exploitation, union busting, wage …

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It’s Time For Mandated Maternity and Paternity Leave

labor, paid leave, Paid maternity leave / By max cyril

Ask any parent and they’ll tell you that having a child changes everything. It shifts your priorities. It changes the way you look at life, the world, and your place in it. Unfortunately, though, not all employers are willing to accommodate the many profound transformations that occur when an employee becomes a parent — and …

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New York City holds parade honoring essential workers—but many essential workers boycott

Leave a Comment / Essential Worker, labor, low-wage jobs, unions / By max cyril

Wednesday was “a day to celebrate and appreciate the heroes who often go unsung,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said last month in announcing a parade to honor the essential workers of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re going to sing about them this day.” Many of the workers, though, feel so unappreciated that they boycotted the …

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