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Colectivo Could Soon Become the Largest Unionized Coffee Chain in the U.S.

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

On March 8, Lauretta Archibald marked her three-year anniversary as a baker for Colectivo Coffee Roasters, an upscale Midwestern coffee chain based in Milwaukee and Chicago. In her years at Colectivo, Archibald had been responsible for making artisan bread in bulk, sometimes baking 1,000 loaves a night. It was arduous work, and Archibald says that she did not always have the …

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Unionize Goldman Sachs

Leave a Comment / banking, unions / By max cyril

Unionize Goldman Sachs. I do not say this to be cheeky. I do not say this ironically, nor with a winking sneer. I do not say it as a fantastical absurdity. In fact, if the employees of Goldman Sachs were as smart as they think they are, they would have unionized a long time ago. Last week, the beleaguered first-year analysts of …

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Support Staff Keep Our Students Learning

Leave a Comment / Education, 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. Schools are communities that include students, teachers, administrators, families and, of course, support staff who …

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How Employers Punish Workers for Forming Unions

1 Comment / unionbusting, unions / By max cyril

Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to sitting down with the company to quickly negotiate a fair contract. Solvay decided to play games instead. Company representatives canceled some bargaining sessions at the last minute, took two-hour lunches on days they did show …

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Amazon touts high pay for warehouse workers, but $15 isn’t all that, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, unions / By max cyril

As its workers in Bessemer, Alabama, seek to unionize, Amazon keeps touting its $15 an hour pay—more than double the federal minimum wage, which applies in Alabama. But it turns out that’s not such a great thing to brag about in that area. “The most recent figure for the median wage in greater Birmingham, a metropolitan area …

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Comic Book Answers: Why Do Workers Need a New ‘Bill of Rights’?

Leave a Comment / unions, worker's rights / By max cyril

A comic book developed by the North Carolina State AFL-CIO aims to answer the question of why we need a new “Bill of Rights” in this country to turn the tide of economic and societal forces back in favor of working people during the current pandemic and beyond. The ‘Bill of Rights’ We Need Now More Than …

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The Teamsters Hint at a Combative National Project to Organize Amazon

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

As the drive to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama draws international attention to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) that is leading the effort, other unions are planning their own strategies to organize parts of Amazon’s sprawling operations as well. The Teamsters, who see Amazon as a direct threat to their historic …

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‘A creature of white supremacy’: AFL-CIO targets filibuster

Leave a Comment / PRO Act, unions / By max cyril

The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions, called on Democrats Thursday to reform the filibuster, the Senate rule standing in the way of enactment of some of their top priorities for the Biden administration. “The very survival of our democratic republic is at stake. And standing in its way is an archaic Senate procedure …

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Rockford United Labor Volunteers Answer Call for Vaccination Effort

Leave a Comment / labor, 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. A new COVID-19 vaccination site in Winnebago County, Illinois, has the capacity to vaccinate 2,500 …

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The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue