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Labor
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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Labor
Striketober carries through February: Eaton forces Iowa plant workers to walk
February 25, 2022Some 365 Machinists members at Eaton’s factory in Davenport, Iowa, were forced to walk.
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Labor
Baseball talks speed up; so does lockout’s impact
February 23, 2022Fans who tweeted on the split differ on whom to blame.
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Labor
Amazon Staten Island unionization vote set for March 25-30
February 22, 2022The JFK8 warehouse has 6,000 workers. In addition, the union filed election authorization cards to demand a vote at a second Staten Island warehouse, LD5, which employs 1,500.
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Politics
U.S. Labor Against War opposes U.S. moves towards Ukraine combat
February 18, 2022“The American people don't want another war. The Ukrainian people don't want a war. The Russian people don't want war.,” USLAW declared.
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Politics
Not content with purging Black voters, Georgia Republicans go after schools, too
February 1, 2022The Republicans’ weapon—as in Florida, Virginia, and elsewhere—is to campaign against “Critical Race Theory” and any other discussions of race that might rile their white supremacist base.
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U.S.
OSHA kills emergency anti-COVID standard on order of right-wing Supreme Court
January 26, 2022Republican dominated Supreme Court strips power to protect workers.
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Labor
AFSCME wins twice in Chicago, unionizing Art Institute and its school
January 14, 2022The 600 workers involved in the Windy City join more than 10,000 museum staffers nationwide who are unionized.
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