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Meow Wolf Officially Recognizes Denver Union

Barbara Urzua 5280
After a successful contract was ratified between Meow Wolf and members of the Meow Wolf Workers Collective in Santa Fe, Convergence Station employees in Denver also unionized.

The Upstart Union Challenging Starbucks

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker
Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?

In the Face of Federal Inaction, Local Governments Tackle Labor Issues

Mark Kreidler Capital and Main
Worker making a bed.
Worker rights activists are turning to the local level to win protections that are not coming at the Federal level. “It’s not just the coasts..It’s happening in Denver, Chicago, the Twin Cities, smaller municipalities, larger municipalities."

Antiabortion Democrat Henry Cuellar Is Anti-Labor

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
Henry Cuellar, the conservative, antiabortion Democratic congressman — who Nancy Pelosi called a “fighter for hardworking families” — has shocked the labor movement with a radical bill seeking to eviscerate workers’ rights.

‘Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent’ – HarperCollins Workers Strike!

Steve Wishnia Labor Press
One picketer’s sign riffed on Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, which HarperCollins publishes. “Where the Wild Things Are Underpaid,” it read, with drawings of Max’s sailboat and one of the monsters he encounters.