updated Fri. August 16, 2024
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The Daily Gazette
March 2, 2018
American labor laws, and the employers who benefit from them, prefer that if there's going to be a union, only one should serve as the exclusive ... Many union organizers, frustrated by the unequal application of constitutional rights in labor relations and hungry for breakthrough strategies to revive the laborÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 2, 2018
Bob Fitch, who spent years in the US South as a photographer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, thinks about himself the same way. In the ... Advocating for social change is part of a long tradition of social documentary photography in the United States and Mexico, and I hope my workÃâà...
The Nation.
March 2, 2018
Union organizers, students, and supporters for a $15-an-hour wage march through Pittsburgh. ... congressional Republicans have refused to lift a finger in nearly nine years to raise the pay of America's lowest-paid workers,” said Rachel West, director of poverty research at the Center for American Progress.
Forward
March 2, 2018
Nato Green is a Jewish union organizer from San Francisco — currently living in Cuba — who also happens to be one of the Bay Area's most ... I'm not sure the terms and racial hierarchies that shape power relations in the U.S. are meaningfully transferable, or that whiteness is the most useful way to talkÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 1, 2018
Others companies are less so — especially the big American brands. Walmart and Gap have not caved in very much at all — though they've made some symbolic gestures. They both raised the minimum wage for their workers in the United States. (Although Walmart always closes some stores after suchÃâà...
ColorLines magazine
March 1, 2018
The story of Maria Moreno—a migrant mother of 12, who was elected by her fellow Mexican-American, Filipino, Black and Okie farmworkers to represent them—the first female farm worker in America to be hired as a union organizer, is now being told in a new documentary, “Adios Amor: The Search forÃâà...
Duke Chronicle
February 28, 2018
This week the Supreme Court will be hearing a case that stands to profoundly affect the power of public sector unions in the United States. ... This case comes at a challenging time for collectively organized workers in the U.S. Just as the strength of collective bargaining is under serious threat, we need aÃâà...
The Bridge
February 15, 2018
SS: Currently the union has active and public members in seven stores** Gladstone workers announced their majority membership in December and the Hawthorne store also did so in February! Burgerville's strategy seems to have been to wait us out, to let us fizzle and give up. In truth, the opposite hasÃâà...
