Labor
After exposing Starbucks boss as union-busting liar, worker gets his job back
May 31, 2023Jaysin Saxton was fired for trying to unionize, but he told the world about CEO Howard Schultz’s labor law-breaking.
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1,700 Connecticut caregivers facing poverty go on strike at six group homes
May 26, 2023Their demands: $25-an-hour wages, affordable health insurance, and a pension they can count on in retirement.
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U.S. capitalism needs more cheap workers; Republicans respond by weakening child labor laws
May 26, 2023Teen workers are more likely to accept low pay and less likely to unionize or push for better working conditions.
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Black unionists map state by state plan to oust right wingers
May 26, 2023They note that African Americans were key to dumping Trump in 2020 and key now to ending right-wing control of state governments.
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Florida unions sue DeSantis for serious violations of the U.S. Constitution
May 25, 2023A day after he announces his presidential run he faces charges of violating freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, the 14 th Amendment and a host of other attacks on democracy.
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