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Your right to organize a union with your coworkers has been written into federal law since 1935. This guide covers how organizing actually works in the United States, what your employer will probably …

cargill locked 1,700 meatpackers out for 89 days over a bathroom break clause

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cargill shut the doors on 1,700 fort morgan meatpackers back in may before anybody even voted to strike, calling it a safety precaution, then let them sit locked out for 89 days over language about ba…

Secaucus hospital pharmacists, therapists and social workers voted union without a single no

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The pharmacists, social workers, physical therapists, dietitians and speech language pathologists at Secaucus University Hospital in New Jersey went through a daylong vote on August 6 and came out of …

Six years after a 200 million dollar ballot fight, California Uber and Lyft drivers cleared the bar to unionize statewide

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In 2020 the app companies spent about 200 million dollars on Proposition 22, 59.5 million of it from Uber and 49 million from Lyft, against 18.9 million on the other side, and they won it with 58 perc…

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The 22 people who unload the Sphere voted 18 to 1 for the Teamsters, and it took them 23 days

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Twenty-two people receive and move every delivery that keeps the Sphere in Las Vegas running, and on August 5 they voted 18 to 1 to become Teamsters Local 986. The petition went in to the labor board …

the bronx public defenders walked out again - third public defender union to strike this month

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Three public defender unions in new york have walked off the job this month, and the bronx defenders are the latest - around 300 of them out on strike. The sticking point is a 3% cost-of-living raise …

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peco linemen went on strike for the first time in 145 years and walked back with the pensions

The folks who keep the lights on in Philly walked off the job for three days this month - the first strike in the company's 145-year history. i figured a utility clearing north of $800 million a year …

missouri dispensary workers just signed the state's first cannabis union contract

High Profile dispensary workers in Columbia unanimously ratified missouri's first collective bargaining contract for cannabis workers - higher pay and paid vacation, on paper, signed. Post-harvest wor…