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As of December 1, so far 3,393 schools had been disrupted this year due to mental health concerns, meaning they were temporarily closed for in-person classes because of issues like “teacher burnout” and “stress on students.”

Kellogg's Strikers Want a Clear Path Out of Two-Tier, Set in Stone

The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America submitted 1,584 union cards to the Indiana University last week, representing almost two-thirds of the roughly 2,500 graduate students working at IU.

India’s community health workers and activists are rallying under the slogan “Community health work is work!” to demand fair pay and treatment for the essential services they provide.

An estimated 60% of large employers use workplace monitoring tools, some of which can be used to chill organizing.

The class struggle never ends. When unions certify a workplace, the employer begins their campaign to punish workers for it on day one.

A company-owned Starbucks in New York State is the first in the US to unionize.

A lot of people, look at Amazon and see the size, scope and the tentacles everywhere, say it’s so huge it can never be done. But we know those tentacles mean there’s a lot of surface area, that there are a lot of people who can come into this fight.

Harvard’s more than 5,000 unionized clerical and technical workers have faced different transitions back to working on campus.

November was a sluggish month for women re-entering the workforce as women gained only 36% of new jobs, reports the National Women’s Law Center. It could take 30 months to gain back the nearly 2 million jobs women have lost during the pandemic.