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In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections

Ben Wray Jacobin
Across Europe, platform workers have won a series of court cases ruling that they are employees, not self-employed. Moves for new EU-wide legislation have faced serious resistance from lobbyists but now look set to deliver some new protections.

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Working People Need Congress To Fund Mass Transit

John Samuelsen and John Costa Newsweek
As we celebrate Rosa Parks' birthday, it is an ideal day to promote the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act and urge our elected representatives in Congress to pass it.

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The UAW Is Organizing the South

John Nichols Nation
The union announced that more than half the workers at a VW plant in Tennessee have signed union cards. And it’s vowing that this is only the beginning.

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Amid Union-Busting, Starbucks Workers Just Keep Organizing

The STAND The STAND
Since 2021, 483 Starbucks stores in 46 states that have filed to unionize; of those, 385 stores in 43 states have won union elections, a nearly 80% win rate. The company continues to fight with illegal and stall tactics but workers keep organizing.

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The South, Where Automakers Go for a Discount

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
In America’s Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-owned Automotive Sector in the United States, Timothy J. Minchin investigates why the companies located where they did and what the decisions meant for workers and their communities.
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