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What Is a ‘Dark Grocery Store’ and How Does It Work?

Chase Shustack The Daily Meal
Dark grocery stores exist solely for delivery purposes. There are no customers to shop the aisles, and there are no checkout lines; it is less like an ordinary grocery store and more like a shipping center hidden under the façade of a grocery store.

USC Grad Workers Win Their Union, Join Uaw

Graduate Student Workers at USC Win Union United Automobile Workers
By a 93% margin, graduate workers at the University of Southern California have voted 1,599 to 122 in favor of joining the Graduate Student Workers Organizing Committee-United Auto Workers (GSWOC-UAW)

Which Workers Are “Strategic” To Organize?

Eric Dirnbach Jacobin
Two key questions confront labor: should unions focus on organizing workers with major strategic leverage in the economy? Or should they welcome any workers willing to fight, since that organizing can constitute a major catalyst for other workers?

It Looks Like a Strippers’ Union Is About To Become a Reality

INTERVIEW BY LIBBY RAINEY Jacobin
Dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in Los Angeles have received positive signs from the NLRB, which bodes well for their contested union drive. If all goes as expected, they will be the only unionized strippers in the country.

How To Get Un-Fired

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
If properly enforced, just cause protections would give all workers more security to stand up to dangerous working conditions, sexual harassment, bullying, speed-up, and wage theft.