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Starbucks Holds Life-Saving Benefits Over Trans Workers’ Heads

OVERLAND PARK, KAN.—Maddie Doran worked at the Starbucks on 75th Street and Interstate 35 for 10 months, “not only to pay the bills,” she says, but because the company’s health insurance covers gender-affirming surgery. Many health plans exclude gender-affirming care, despite the fact that the medically necessary procedures can be lifesaving—Harvard research shows gender-affirming care can significantly reduce suicidal ideation, for example. And without Starbucks’ …

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Unionized nursing homes were safer in the pandemic, this week in the war on workers

COVID-19, unions / By max cyril

Unions have increasingly bargained for the common good in recent years, as when teachers negotiate lower class sizes and more school nurses or counselors, or nurses negotiate for improved staffing ratios so they can give every patient the attention they deserve. Union opponents often try to claim that these are really self-interested measures that only …

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No, Striketober Is Not About Vaccine Mandates

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

The recent wave of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements. This month, the United States has seen a noticeable uptick in the number of strikes by fed-up workers at companies like Kellogg’s and John Deere—a phenomenon many are calling “Striketober.” As a result, the U.S. labor movement is getting an unusual …

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At World’s Largest Hilton, Workers Fight for Jobs, Daily Cleaning

Leave a Comment / Hospitality, Uncategorized / By max cyril

This is one of two articles from Hawaiian hotel workers. Read the other, “Hawaiian Hilton Workers Fear Permanent Layoffs As Recall Rights Expiration Nears,” here. Tourism drives Hawaii’s economy, and housekeepers are the heart of our hotels. But as tourism is returning to Hawaii, only a few housekeepers are being called back to work because many …

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Hawaiian Hilton Workers Fear Permanent Layoffs As Recall Rights Expiration Nears

Leave a Comment / Hospitality / By max cyril

This is one of two articles from Hawaiian hotel workers. Read the other, “At World’s Largest Hilton, Workers Fight for Jobs, Daily Cleaning,” here. “Did you see Hilton is getting rid of workers permanently?” Jungmin Kim, my co-worker, came running to ask me before I could even get to the front desk. Hilton’s CEO had told …

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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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Dispersed but Undaunted, Chicago Amazon Workers Help Win Megacycle Pay Nationwide

Leave a Comment / labor, unions / By max cyril

Chicago Amazon warehouse workers were put in a tough spot, and made the best of it. In January, the company hit workers in Chicago’s DCH1 delivery station with a devastating one-two punch. First, Amazon was shutting down their workplace, so they would have to transfer to other facilities across the city. Second, workers at delivery …

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The Roots of Today’s White Collar Union Wave Are Deeper Than You Think

Leave a Comment / union mobilizing / By max cyril

At UAW Local 2110, Maida Rosenstein has quietly organized the most prestigious group of cultural institutions on the East Coast. Before the recent wave of organizing among media workers, adjunct professors and nonprofit workers set the world talking about the promise of white collar unions, there had already been decades of quiet organizing among the white collar creative underclass. …

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