Labor
Google workers organize innovative new type of union with CWA
January 5, 2021Using innovations to attract their colleagues—everyone from software engineers to outside “contractors”—Google workers are organizing the high-tech behemoth.
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Connecticut UNITE HERE activists canvass Georgia to take back Senate
January 4, 2021900 canvassers affiliated with the UNITE HERE union have been getting out the vote in Georgia for weeks. New Haven Alder Ron Hurt is one of them, and reflects on his experiences here.
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Unions: The $900 billion stimulus only a step to rescuing workers
January 4, 2021Labor leaders say workers have been physically and financially smashed by the pandemic and that the stimulus helps but much more needs to be done.
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A worker dies every 99 minutes from being injured on the job
December 23, 2020And the data for 2020 could be even worse, BLS says—but it won’t be because of COVID-19, at least not officially.
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Arizona State University workers go union, found United Campus Workers chapter
December 22, 2020With the launch of the ASU local, UCW Arizona now claims over 500 graduate students, staff, and faculty within their ranks statewide.
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