Labor
The Break Room: Who owns your time?
September 26, 2016Having a work schedule you can depend on has joined raising the minimum wage as a winnable demand for America's millions of low-paid workers.
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AFL-CIO Exec. VP Tefere Gebre addresses immigration on two coasts
September 23, 2016Do American workers lose out because of immigration? Gebre, himself a refugee, tackled the question at an LA summit on race and at the UN in NY.
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Student, faculty unity win, classes begin at Long Island University
September 23, 2016"We made a really clear statement that you can't run a university without faculty and without students."
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Washington, DC rejects worker-friendly scheduling bill; Seattle passes it
September 22, 2016The measures would make firms give workers at least two weeks' advance notice of their schedules, and make those schedules predictable.
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Oreo workers take Nabisco fight global
September 21, 2016Mondelēz-Nabisco shipped 600 South Chicago jobs out of the country. Now, workers from BCTGM are uniting across borders to fight back.
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