Ben Markeson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Markeson
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Labor
Chipotle signs “Fair Food” pact with Immokalee workers
October 9, 2012Following a six-year struggle, the CIW signed an agreement Oct. 4 with Chipotle Mexican Grill, ending their campaign against the company.
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U.S.
Disney disgrace: Scandal rocks efforts to block paid sick time
October 3, 2012The newly minted campaign comes in the wake of disclosures that the county had deleted text messages sent and received during a lengthy meeting on earned sick time.
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U.S.
Big business and GOP block Florida sick-time ballot measure
September 25, 2012Progressive forces have had the prospect of paid sick time, an advance for low-wage workers, snatched from them, at least temporarily, by big business forces and their allies .
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U.S.
Disney, big biz, fight Florida sick-time measure
August 27, 2012Progressive forces here have put a ballot initiative mandating paid sick time onto the Nov. 6 ballot. Disney World and other interests are going all-out to block it.
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Labor
CWA workers fighting for a fair contract with AT&T
August 7, 2012AT&T "is manufacturing a crisis that doesn't exist" so it can squeeze us while making billions in profits every quarter. "They're trying to take away our benefits, slash our health care, trying to underfund our pensions."
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Labor
At DoubleTree, workers fight for “better Florida”
June 18, 2012Over 500 Unite Here members, brothers and sisters from other unions, and community allies rallied June 13 outside Orlando's only union hotel.
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World
Rally seeks freedom for Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera
June 1, 2012Lopez is the longest-held political prisoner in the history of Puerto Rico.
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U.S.
Florida’s Orange County OKs domestic partnerships
May 24, 2012Orange County, Fla., home of Walt Disney World, became the second county in Central Florida to pass a domestic partnership ordinance.
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