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Hotel workers demand cities protect them from sexual harassment
May 26, 2017“We think it’s very important to protect our workers, particularly women who are isolated” while cleaning rooms, Sarah Lyons of Unite Here Local 1 in Chicago told WLS TV.
Read moreWorkers again try to organize South Carolina Boeing plant
January 24, 2017For a second time in three years, the Machinists are trying to organize the 2,850 workers at Boeing’s plant in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Read moreJudge gives unionbusters right to operate in secret
November 23, 2016Selection of rural Texas as the area to challenge an Obama administration regulation is no accident. The judges there are deeply conservative and cater to the business right wing and its allies. Judges in the area...
Read moreLatinos are changing the face of…Nebraska!
October 21, 2016If the winds of political change are starting to blow in Nebraska, the center of the storm is a third-floor office on 24th Street in South Omaha.
Read moreAFL-CIO to help more Latina working women organize
October 18, 2016While Trump continues to excoriate immigrants, the AFL-CIO is ramping up programs to help them unionize.
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