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Starbucks is seeking good PR by offering to cover travel costs for abortion and gender-affirming care for workers like me. But its promises come with caveats and can be revoked. We don’t want flimsy promises — we want these benefits in a union contract.

It is an indictment of the entire restaurant industry.

Our labor has become a commodity, something bought and sold in the marketplace, no different in principle than raw materials, equipment, and the buildings that house our workplaces.

“They are compelled to do this,” says Alan Benjamin, a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council who heard directly from striking workers. “It's not voluntary; it's compulsory work, without proper sanitation and equipment.”

Jennifer Abruzzo, General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board would like to ease the path to forming unions and curb employers’ coercion and intimidation.

Workers say they just want a fair deal on pay, conditions and schedules at an airline has long resisted union efforts.

Statehouse employees in at least four states are pushing to organize and Oregon staffers formed a union last year.

NLRB demand for UMWA to pay Warrior Met Coal strike costs “outrageous,” threatens American workers’ right to strike

DIablo devs accuse the Call of Duty publisher of spending hundreds of thousands on defeating the latest union drive

A bill - BA 257 - aimed to create a fast food sector council to set minimum industry standards on wages, working hours, health and safety and other working conditions - is expected to come before the senate appropriations committee on August 11.