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  • Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change

    November 18, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Organizations like Milk and Dignity are filling in the worker safety gaps left behind in federal regulations by working with farms to implement worker-driven protections.

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  • Unions offer graduate student workers a stronger platform to secure living wages and reasonable workloads

    November 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Corvallis, Oregon

    Graduate student unions, like Oregon State University’s Coalition of Graduate Employees, use collective bargaining to allow student employees to successfully negotiate for fair wages, reasonable hours, and other terms of employment.

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  • Putting a face to a movement: Trader Joe's unionization

    October 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Trader Joe’s stores across the United States are pushing for unionization with mixed results. While some stores have seen success, others have faced union-busting tactics and, in one scenario, an abrupt store closure.

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  • Putting a stop to labor trafficking!

    October 11, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Equal Justice Center helps people who have experienced issues in the workplace like wage theft, labor trafficking and discrimination get justice against their employers.

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  • Four-day workweek: Why more companies are taking the plunge

    September 28, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Several companies are beginning to lean into the four-day workweek. It is also being seen as a new recruiting tool that resonates with a younger generation that prioritizes work-life balance. There are even nonprofits like 4 Day Week Global, that are coordinating pilot programs across the globe to encourage more companies to adopt a 32-hour workweek with no cut in pay.

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  • Ban the Box policies reduce barriers for the formerly incarcerated

    August 30, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Ban the Box campaign has led to legislation like New York's Fair Chance Act, which prevents employers from asking questions about conviction history during the application process and makes it unlawful to rescind an offer because of a previous offense. Ban the Box policies are now being implemented in cities and states across the country and have improved job prospects in places such as Washington, D.C., where the number of applicants with conviction records being hired grew by a third after the policy was put in place.

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  • The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists

    August 12, 2022 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Unit of Work, an organization backed by venture capital, helps unions organize and win contracts. Organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers forming unions within their own workplaces. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit of Work a monthly fee — like traditional union dues — to keep providing support.

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  • The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

    August 09, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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  • The Starbucks union wave hits Kansas and Missouri

    June 30, 2022 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    With help from national labor union Workers United, employees at Starbucks stores across the country are launching union campaigns in an effort to secure safer conditions and better pay. In all, 171 stores in 30 states have won union elections so far, and Workers United has filed to unionize at 302 stores in all.

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  • On a mission to save seniors from nursing home horrors

    June 10, 2022 |

    GuelphToday |

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    Response Location: Canada, Peterborough, Ontario

    After witnessing burnout and substandard conditions in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, personal support workers in Peterborough, Ontario established a co-op to provide home-based care directly to seniors. The worker-owned organization now has 17 caregivers who are able to spend more time learning about their patients' needs and are paid higher wages on average than in traditional care homes.

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