In the latest escalation of their growing union drive, Starbucks workers across the country are staging a three-day strike beginning todayāāāmaking it the…
In Tuesdayās midterm elections, a majority of Illinois voters backed the Workers Rights Amendment which will enshrine the ability to organize. A…
As companies like Starbucks and Amazon continue their efforts to stop employees from unionizing, voters in Illinois passed aĀ historic measure to safeguard…
Review of Laborās Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934ā1966, by Andrew J. Hazelton (University of Illinois Press, 2022) Last…
On August 12, a Trader Joeās store in Downtown Minneapolis became only the second in the nation to unionize after winning an election,…
Managers at Intelligentsia Coffee closed their five Chicago stores two hours early July 5 to call its cafe workers to a mandatory meeting. A month earlier,…
US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts…
After waiting over two years to secure a new union contract, and still reeling from the impacts of Wall Street-ordered cost-cutting measures, 115,000 beleaguered workers…
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Wednesday morning, several dozen Amazon workers at two separate Chicago-area delivery stations staged a walkout to demand raises and safer working conditions
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