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The time it takes to organize a union is typically measured in months, if not years. Not so for workers at the Alamo Drafthouse in Woodbury, who voted March 27 to join Communications Workers (CWA) Local 7250 in a process that took a mere six weeks. It was as quick an organizing drive as anyone […]
Two new academic reports have raised concerns among some lawmakers that public funds are being used to stifle worker voice.
At one nonprofit nursing home with a religious affiliation, an administrator leaned on Biblical proverbs to suggest that union organizers were wolves in sheep’s clothing.
“It was sudden, it was callous and it was cruel.”
Ultimately, workers fear the administration’s ultimate goal isn’t to bust their union, but to privatize airport security altogether.
In balloting March 6, workers at the Starbucks south of Highway 36 and Fairview Avenue voted 16-3 to join Starbucks Workers United, which represents over 10,500 workers across the U.S.
Members of the state’s largest health care union are calling on one of the state’s largest nursing home companies to join them in working toward a solution to short staffing in the industry.
Delta workers say the airline has responded to their organizing drive with a relentless union-busting campaign, cracking down on pro-union speech and flooding the workplace with disinformation.
Union members called the relocation plan retaliatory, saying ownership gave them no indication that it intended to move until they requested recognition of their union.
Planned Parenthood North Central States workers in Minnesota and four other states voted to ratify their first union contract this week, capping a tumultuous round of negotiations with the reproductive health organization, where workers voted to unionize in July 2022. The new contract takes effect retroactively to Jan. 1 and covers about 430 members of […]
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