Labor
Starbucks baristas win unions at four Michigan stores, set sights on ‘worker power’
June 9, 2022“We're hoping our union isn't just going to just be for our pay and benefits, but a tool to fight for worker power throughout the county and hopefully throughout Michigan and then the country and then...
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SEIU nursing home workers protest poor patient care and pay
June 8, 2022Workers were on the march in at least 12 states demanding better pay, better patient care, and full staffing.
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Head honchos at low-pay firms raised CEO pay in pandemic
June 8, 2022They gave their top officials huge raises as they battled efforts by their workers to unionize and win living wages.
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Unions back Poor People’s Campaign, renew demand for Biden meeting
June 7, 2022“We no longer will accept a system built on workers’ backs while billionaires profit from the pandemic,” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry warned.
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Firms claim to create 333K new jobs in May as jobless rate stays at 3.6 percent
June 6, 2022The “bounce back remains very strong, strikingly stronger—four years faster than the recovery from the Great Recession."
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