unions
Railroad bosses’ profit-making tactics lower safety standards, raise dangers
June 23, 2022Negotiations between the unions representing the nation’s freight rail workers and railroad bosses have broken down.
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Worker-led CORE Union takes a bite out of Apple with Maryland win
June 21, 2022The 65-33 margin among the 110 eligible voters at the Towson store, in the northern Baltimore suburbs, makes those workers the first at Apple to go union.
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Anti-union Philadelphia Museum of Art bosses fire workers, eliminate pay—for years
June 17, 2022The majority of museum staff were making less than $50,000 a year, and 90% were making less than $15 an hour in a high-cost city, and now they’re hit, like other workers, by rising inflation.
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Biden at AFL-CIO convention: PRO Act is ‘Pro-American’
June 15, 2022Republican Senate filibusters, plus opposition from renegade Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, continue to halt Biden’s agenda.
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Amazon fires Staten Island organizer in what workers see as anti-union retaliation
June 14, 2022Pasquale "Pat" Cioffi, a worker and lead organizer with the Amazon Labor Union, was fired by Amazon from his job at the company’s JFK8 warehouse.
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