Vermont Home Care Workers Vote to Unioniize
Burlington Free Press
Home Care workers in the state of Vermont have overwhelmingly voted to be represented by AFSCME.
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New Labor Movement Emerges In Scott Walker’s Wisconsin
Salon.com
Once again, Wisconsin is ground zero for the future of the labor movement — the catalyst for a new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement.
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University of California Hospital Workers Strike Today, Demand Safer Staffing, Pensions
Labor Notes
The UC health-care system boasts nearly $7 billion in operating revenue, but management wants to create a two-tier pension system for workers, while executives get yearly pension payouts of as much as $300,000.
The union is demanding stronger protection against subcontracting. Workers also want more of a voice in staffing and patient care matters.
Decades After King's Death, Memphis Jobs at Risk
The Charlotte Observer
Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis' garbage - and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company.
Big Labor's Lock 'Em Up Mentality
Mother Jones
How otherwise progressive unions stand in the way of a more humane correctional system.
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