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Former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar called the Austin Starbucks workers union victory "inspiring."

A zone of voicelessness within the workplace is hard to contain. Lack of voice in undemocratic workplaces radiates outward to erode voice in the purportedly democratic political realm.

“I’m not disposable,” said one Chipotle worker, “and neither is my labor and neither are my coworkers.”

This divestment resolution lays the groundwork for a new generation of labor rank and file to continue mainstreaming support for Palestine, and to move that support into concrete action.

The union alleges that Apple has violated labor laws and made a fair election impossible. A vote was scheduled for next week. If successful, it would have been the first unionized Apple store in the United States.

American workers have a particularly important role to play in developing an internationalist vision that universally and effectively joins anti-imperial and anti-authoritarian ethics.

Starbucks baristas in Columbia, South Carolina, returned to their jobs on Saturday, May 21, following a three-day walkout to protest anti-union retaliation.

About 4000 people will be attending this years Labor Notes conference.

Mexican laws generally protect the rights of health workers. But worker rights advocates caution that adopting this model of a precarious distribution platform by other industries can encourage informal work without social security.

Attacks on health care workers have reached epidemic levels across the country, exacerbating turnover, turning caregivers into patients and further fraying systems of care already worn thin by COVID-19.