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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: USW Members at Minnesota Nursing Homes Secure Wage Increases Amid Coronavirus Surge

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: USW Members at Minnesota Nursing Homes Secure Wage Increases Amid Coronavirus Surge Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s to […]

RWDSU-UFCW Leads Organizing Drive at Amazon Fulfillment Center in Alabama

RWDSU-UFCW Leads Organizing Drive at Amazon Fulfillment Center in Alabama The strongest effort to create a union at Amazon in many years is underway in Bessemer, Alabama. Organizers with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union-UFCW (RWDSU-UFCW) have been working with employees at the Amazon fulfillment center. By December, more than 2,000 workers ha […]

The Unfinished Story of Women at Work: 9to5 Yesterday, Today the PRO Act

The Unfinished Story of Women at Work: 9to5 Yesterday, Today the PRO Act If you’ve never had to make coffee for your boss, it’s thanks to women who organized in the 1970s. And while the electric typewriter is no more, how women of that era organized is relevant—to current battles like organizing Big Tech, building care infrastructure and winning labor reform […]

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: NFLPA Boosts RWDSU’s Campaign to Organize Amazon Workers in Alabama

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: NFLPA Boosts RWDSU’s Campaign to Organize Amazon Workers in Alabama Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Mem […]

Raising Standards for the Tech Industry: Worker Wins

Raising Standards for the Tech Industry: Worker Wins Despite the challenges of organizing during a deadly pandemic, working people across the country (and beyond) continue organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. This edition begins with: Tech Workers Union Local 1010 Launched to Raise Standards for Tech Industry: Workers in the tech industry […]

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Union Veterans Council and Pride At Work: End Ban on Transgender Service Members

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Union Veterans Council and Pride At Work: End Ban on Transgender Service Members Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today […]

Big Tech Organizing: The Working People Weekly List

Big Tech Organizing: The Working People Weekly List Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. Big Tech Unionizing: "Workers at Google and other Alphabet companies have started the Alphabet Workers Union, in partners […]

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Inauguration 2021: Brought To You By Unions

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Inauguration 2021: Brought To You By Unions Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. On Wednesday, we witnessed […]

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Ohio AFL-CIO Mobilizing in Support of Workers First Agenda

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Ohio AFL-CIO Mobilizing in Support of Workers First Agenda Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The Ohio AFL […]

Pathway to Progress: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Scripto Strike

Pathway to Progress: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Scripto Strike Georgia State University History has long been portrayed as a series of "great men" taking great action to shape the world we live in. In recent decades, however, social historians have focused more on looking at history "from the bottom up," studying the vital role that w […]

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