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Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will "never embrace the union."

Frederick Douglass gave this speech in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. Some now give this speech the title, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

Amazon is posing as a friend to veterans who need jobs when they return home from military service — while mistreating those veterans just as brutally as any other Amazon worker.

Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.

Workers said they are hoping to receive benefits, such as health care and retirement. In recent months, smaller groups of production employees at different workplaces have unionized – these include the animation studio Titmouse, and the workers at Rick & Morty and Solar Opposites.

Resist and fightback -- numerous unions condemned the Supreme Court's decision to end the constitutional right to an abortion. A sampling, from multiple unions representing workers in virtually every sector of the economy, are reprinted below.

Over 400 Planned Parenthood workers in five states will begin voting by mail this week in a union organizing election. The National Labor Relations Board will tally votes July 21.

After a Five-Year Campaign, Adjuncts Faculty and Lecturers at Santa Clara University win their union and vote SEIU 1021 as Bargaining Representative. Union-yes votes win in a landslide (72.5%) in the National Labor Relations Board-overseen election.

Starbucks and its union-busting law firm are pulling out all the stops in Seattle in an attempt to destroy the union push that has swept the country.

This past weekend, 4,000 labor militants gathered near Chicago for the Labor Notes conference. Amazon and Starbucks workers, teachers, Teamsters, Bernie Sanders — Labor Notes is a mosaic that brought the labor and leftist upsurge under one roof.