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Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.
The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.
With issues like pay, benefits, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum staffing levels, schedule flexibility, mental health, and workplace safety becoming increasingly urgent in the pandemic, women have emerged as union leaders as never before.
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Amazon has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation.
Given that Starbucks would go to such lengths to stop just a handful of stores from joining a union, it’s no surprise that it took 50 years after its founding for a single café to unionize. And it’s no wonder it's seen as a groundbreaking event.
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 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.
Workers at three plants owned by the luxury apparel-maker Canada Goose in Winnipeg, Manitoba, have voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
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