Labor
Workers, lawyers, NLRB team up to expose Menard’s union busting
January 25, 2016David vs. Goliath comparisons arise whenever a person fights for rights against the controlling rich, and sometimes it's dead right.
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Screen Actors Guild Awards — the union alternative to the Oscars
January 25, 2016"Yes, it's glitzy and glamorous, but really it's about celebrating our union."
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Workers of San Quintin Valley: No longer willing to be invisible
January 22, 2016Thousands of workers - who pick strawberries and tomatoes for the US market - went on a two-week strike in protest over their poverty wages.
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Labor experts ask NLRB: give unions equal voice, time at “captive audience” meetings
January 21, 2016The current captive audience meetings let employers summon workers into closed meetings to hear anti-union rhetoric and worse.
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Steelworkers, ExxonMobil, CalOSHA start talks on Torrance refinery explosion
January 21, 2016"Things are going fine" in the talks with ExxonMobil, "but it's a slow process."
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