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PETITION: HelloFresh workers need a union

Workers at HelloFresh are organizing a union to make their jobs safer and more sustainable at the largest meal-kit company in the United States.

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‘Striketober’ Isn’t a Sign of Chaos—It’s a Healthy Development for the Country

The picket line has been crowded lately.

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Rights and Protections for All Working Families

Millions of undocumented immigrants, who are vital to our economic recovery, still live in fear because of our outdated and inhumane immigration system. It’s time to put an end to this injustice. Tell your senators to pass a budget that includes a broad pathway to citizenship.

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Nurses at Albany Med deserve respect and a fair contract!

Albany Med: stop dragging your feet & disrespecting our #COVID nurse heroes and settle a fair contract NOW that protects nurse and patient HEALTH and SAFETY!

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Meet the Woman on the Brink of Transforming Labor in America for the Young and Reshuffling Workforce

Juliana Kaplan on Today, December 2 - 10:33am

When Liz Shuler rides on an airplane, she often has an experience that will be familiar to most travelers: Her seat mate asks, "What do you do?"

Five years ago, after saying she worked for a labor union, Shuler said, most people would put their noses back in their books. Today, she's met with reactions like "awesome" and "amazing."

Liz Shuler: Seeing a Bigger Role for Women in the Labor Movement

Mark A. Stein on Monday, November 15 - 11:10am

NYT: How did you get your start in the labor movement?

Liz Shuler: I came up through the IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers]. My father was a union member and worked for PGE [an Oregon utility]. Clerical workers were not in a union, and my mother and I were organizing them. PGE was a study in the difference a union can make: Power linemen were respected and made good wages, and nonunion clerical workers were not listened to and didn’t have a voice.

Survey Shows Broad Public Support For Worker Strikes

Dave Jamieson on Tuesday, October 26 - 9:37am

Workers at companies like Kellogg’s, Nabisco and John Deere have hit the picket lines in recent weeks hoping to get a better deal from their employers. A new survey suggests the public by and large supports them.

The AFL-CIO labor federation commissioned the progressive pollster Data for Progress to take the public’s temperature on the strikes that have made headlines this summer and fall. The online survey of nearly 1,300 likely voters asked if they “approve or disapprove of employees going on strike in support of better wages, benefits, and working conditions.”

Strikes Are Sweeping the Labor Market as Workers Wield New Leverage

Jacob Bogage on Monday, October 18 - 1:00pm

Marcial Reyes could have just quit his job. Frustrated with chronic understaffing at the Kaiser Permanente hospital where he works in Southern California, he knows he has options in a region desperate for nurses.

Instead, he voted to go on strike.

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