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September 28, 2022

Non-Tenure-Track Skidmore College Faculty Votes To Unionize

Andrew Waite Daily Gazette

In a major milestone for an organizing effort that began in 2018, full-time and part-time, non-tenure-track faculty and other Skidmore College staff voted this month in favor of unionizing.

September 27, 2022

The Incentives To Get Workers Back to the Office Aren’t Working. Here’s What Would.

Alison Green Slate

Millions of office employees started working at home in 2020, now many don't want to return to the workplace. Companies are struggling to figure out how to convince them to return.

September 26, 2022

New ‘Striketober’ Looms as US Walkouts Increase Amid Surge in Union Activity

Michael Sainato The Guardian

Support for unions is on the rise as workers take action to raise pay and conditions amid booming company profits.

September 25, 2022

Montrose-Area Starbucks Becomes First Houston Location To Unionize

Lucio Vasquez / Jack Williams Houston Public Media

In an 11-3 vote, workers at the Starbucks on South Shepherd near West Alabama in Houston voted to form a union on Thursday.

September 24, 2022

Interest Rate Hikes Won’t End Inflation for Workers

Carl Rosen Chicago Tribune

Our government has the tools to address the cost-of-living crisis. It just needs to use the right ones.

September 23, 2022

Three Workers Dead in Grain Silo, Including a Child. OSHA Can Do Nothing

Jordan Barab Confined Space

Silos in the foreground against the horizon of the setting sun.

Farms are dangerous workplaces. Grain silos are well known death traps that kill dozens of workers, often children, every year.

September 22, 2022

George Gresham Wants Labor Leaders To Support Younger Organizers

Bob Hennelly City & State

The 1199SEIU president talked about how the old guard can learn from people like Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls.

September 21, 2022

Home Depot Workers in Northeast Philly Petition To Unionize, in What Could Be a National First

Max Marin and Robert Moran Philadelphia Inquirer

Workers at a Home Depot store in Northeast Philadelphia have filed paperwork to unionize — launching an unexpected campaign that, if successful, could mark the largest collective bargaining unit to date at any branch of the global home improvement retailer.

September 19, 2022

Domestic Workers Will Now Have Some of the Same Labor Protections As Other Employees in Colorado

Andrew Kenney CPR News

Domestic workers were excluded from the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. Colorado joins a few states that give rights to domestic workers (including people who care for children, tend gardens and clean other people’s homes).

September 18, 2022

Workers at Big Brands Like Starbucks Aren’t the Only Ones Unionizing

Christopher R. Martin Jacobin

The uptick in union organizing at brands like Amazon and Starbucks has rightly drawn attention from mainstream media. But worker organizing is underway at companies you’ve never heard of, too — and drawing little attention from outlets like the New York Times.