workers rights
Palermo’s agrees to reinstate eight fired workers
July 31, 2013The company also has agreed to post a notice informing workers of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act and to hold a union election.
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Residents say poverty wages will not resurrect Detroit
July 23, 2013Only blocks from city hall, a Friday afternoon picket line at the Crowne Plaza Hotel symbolizes the fight taking place in this city.
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St. Paul laundry workers picket for fair contract
July 23, 2013About 240 Health Systems Cooperative employees, members of Workers United Local 150, have been working without a contract since March 31. A temporary extension of the previous contract expired July 14.
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Today in labor history: S.C. hospital workers win union recognition strike
July 18, 2013For over three months, 400 African-American hospital workers, mostly women, walked off their jobs in protest over discrimination and the right to form a union.
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British postal unions slam privatization plan
July 16, 2013There's a big bus trundling around London this week, manned by British postal workers - and they're not doing it for fun or to show sights to tourists
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