worker rights
Restaurant workers picket for fair contract and respect
February 26, 2015Some 65 workers at Oaks Corner have been without a contract for two and a half years, and haven't had a raise in eight years.
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Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”
February 25, 2015A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.
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Wisconsin workers again battle Walker’s anti-labor steamroller
February 25, 2015Trashing promises to provide a fair hearing, the Republican leader of Wisconsin's state Senate labor committee rammed through a bill that would make union shops illegal.
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Walmart’s raise for workers “proof collective action works”
February 20, 2015Walmart announced today it was giving its lowest-wage workers a raise to at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016.
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Update: El Super boycott
February 20, 2015El Super market workers, along with 100 community organizations, endorse the call to boycott El Super.
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