At dozens of companies, the ratio exceeds one thousand to one
After a hard-fought, five-year organizing campaign, the largely immigrant workforce at Genwa, a Korean BBQ chain in Los Angeles, has won a first contrac
In 1886, workers came together on the original May Day to demand an eight-hour day. Today, from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses, that struggle continues.
Starbucks is firing worker activists as it seeks to blunt the momentum of the union drive sweeping the company
A year ago, all eyes were on the unionization election at Amazonās warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, where illegal union suppression tactics by Amazon helped sink the drive. Thanks to a court order, that vote is about to be rerun
āMicroworkersā are the anonymous digital contract workers whose labor powers the tech giantsā artificial intelligence systems
A month after Frito-Lay workers walked off the job, workers who make Nabisco products like Oreos and Triscuits are on strike in Colorado, Oregon, and Virginia
The workers behind television shows and movies are fed up and starting to organize
In more and more of the country Amazon acts like an employer in a company town, sucking up whole communities and shaping public goods and services to fit its profit-making needs
Itās been a year since Amazon fired Chris Smalls for organizing a rally to protest COVID-19 conditions. Now, heās trying to unionize his former warehouse, and he wonāt stop until thereās worker justice at Amazon
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