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800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 members at the massive JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, walked…
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian…
Ten thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 are on strike all across Colorado. They work for King…
Members seeking to transform the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) have added a new weapon to their arsenal: legal action. Grocery…
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It wasnāt such a merry Christmas for grocery store management in central Minnesota. Five hundred grocery workers in the Brainerd Lakes area…
Today 6,800 Auto Workers (UAW) struck the most profitable Stellantis plant in the world. At 10 a.m. workers streamed out of the…
Last Friday, some five thousand United Auto Workers (UAW) at thirty-eight after-market parts distribution centers (PDCs) across General Motors (GM) and Stellantis joined the…
The clock has ticked and tocked for two of the Big 3 automakers. At noon 5,000 more members of the Auto Workers…
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