unions
1,300 Hershey’s workers in Virginia voting on unionization
March 2, 2022Key issues in the organizing drive are back-breaking hours and a two-tiered pay structure, particularly onerous for workers in southwestern Virginia, a relatively poor area which has seen an exodus of factory jobs over the last...
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Congressional staffers draw Dem, AFL-CIO support for unionizing drive
March 2, 2022Capitol Hill workers are striking back against long hours and sexism.
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Poor People’s Campaign leader, Rev. Barber, boosts unions in Buffalo talk
March 1, 2022As the 2022 election season begins a major movement fighting poverty hooks up with the labor movement.
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Organizing Detroit: Carrying on the struggle at Great Lakes Coffee
March 1, 2022Bosses shut down and laid off workers indefinitely earlier this year to resist COVID safety demands.
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AFL-CIO, union leaders, call for fast confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS
February 27, 2022The nation’s largest labor federation and many union leaders describe her nomination as one that fills the need of having a workers’ champion on the Court.
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