Labor
Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy’s for human rights abuses
March 14, 2016The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
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Presidential hopefuls on so-called ‘free trade’ pacts
March 14, 2016Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
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Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
March 10, 2016A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
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Layoffs continue as newspaper workers continue fight for fair wages, job security
March 9, 2016"They've been treating the workforce like something they can just ignore."
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This week in women’s history: Militant furriers strike successfully in 1926
March 8, 2016Some 10,000 women workers in the needle trades, mostly Jewish and Italian, took to the New York City streets to demand higher wages.
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