Large Majority in U.S. Favor Unions
From today’s Gallup News: Labor unions continue to enjoy high support in the U.S., with 67% of Americans approving of them, similar to the elevated level seen in recent years…
California May Transform America’s Fast Food Industry Again By Unionizing Them
From today’s Politico: A decadelong quest to organize fast food workers is culminating in the state that gave America McDonald’s and Taco Bell. A protracted showdown between labor unions and…
After Organizing Union Drive, Grindr Employees Given 2 Weeks To Report In Office or Lose Jobs
From today’s Yahoo News: Management at the popular LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr is asking workers to return to the office or lose their jobs, prompting outrage from employees who say…
Colorado’s Creative, Cultural, and Service Workers Unionizing for Leverage
From today’s Denver Post: Anna McGee has hit a wall. So has her boss. A 26-year-old front-of-the-house worker at Denver’s Mercury Cafe, McGee joined other employees last month to demand…
South Carolina Longshoremen Union Rallies For Workers’ Rights
From today’s The Post and Courier: Omari Lincoln became a longshoreman, loading and unloading cargo along the Charleston waterfront, after watching his father and his grandfather before him do the…
Trader Joe’s Violated Worker Rights At Store That Unionized
From today’s HuffPost: Trader Joe’s may have run afoul of the law at a store in Minnesota where workers unionized last year. The grocery chain’s management illegally removed union literature…
These Companies Are Taking a Harder Line on Union Organizers
From today’s New York Times: After working for more than seven years at an Apple store in Kansas City, Mo., Gemma Wyatt ran into trouble. Last year, she said, managers…
Starbucks Tarnishes Its Progressive Brand by Denying Workers’ Rights
From today’s Newsweek: Starbucks has long claimed to be a “different kind of company”—one that cares about the health, safety, and well being of its workers nationwide. It doesn’t even…
Can the United Farm Workers Rise Again?
From today’s New York Times: Veronica Mota marched under the sweltering sun, hoisting a cloth banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe above her head for miles. “Sí, se puede,” she…
How a YouTube Strike Could Set a Big Precedent For Workers’ Rights
From today’s Times: Several teams of subcontracted YouTube workers went on strike on Friday, to protest a return-to-office policy that they say is an attempt by YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet,…