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

Christina Cooke

November 18, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Over 3000 Words

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

Sravya Tadepalli

November 10, 2022 |

Prism |

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1500-3000 Words

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

Helen Li

October 12, 2022 |

Prism |

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1500-3000 Words

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!

Jason Nguyen Ana Lastra Robert Arnold Adrian Montes

October 11, 2022 |

Solutionaries |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

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

Laurent Belsie Shafi Musaddique Erika Page

September 28, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Over 3000 Words

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

Tamar Sarai Davis

August 30, 2022 |

Prism |

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1500-3000 Words

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

Sam Dean

August 12, 2022 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

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

Emily Nonko

August 09, 2022 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

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

Mili Mansaray

June 30, 2022 |

The Kansas City Beacon |

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1500-3000 Words

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

Jen Cutts

June 10, 2022 |

GuelphToday |

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1500-3000 Words

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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