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Representatives of United Food and Commercial Workers hope it will be an inspiration for other vulnerable workers toiling in the agri-food industry.

Contact: communications@progressiveworkersunion.org Sierra Club Union Authorizes First-Ever Strike to Counter Union-Busting Ben Jealous’ executive team refuses to meaningfully respond to strike platform Washington D.C. – The tumultuous tenure of executive leadership under Ben Jealous at the Sierra C...

Around 800 workers will go on the first-ever strike in the history of the Borsa Italiana Group – a leading European stock market – on 27 June 2024. They are protesting potential relocations, inadequate salary increases, overtime and the loss of autonomy of the Italian companies in the Group.  The tr...

The union says it is 'poverty wages'. Supermarkets say they pay fairly.

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The retail giant has taken unprecedented measures to deter its workers from unionising, as its Coventry workers gear up for a historic vote.

Striking workers blocked delivery trucks carrying oil products, including petrol, from leaving the ExxonMobil Chemical France's Port-Jerome-Gravenchon refinery in northern France on Friday. Some 200 workers are on strike, an FNME-CGT union member said, and the action will continue until management ...

Unite Here union employed a whiskered inflatable to taunt Aramark, the giant, Philadelphia-based food-and-services company.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Starbucks workers at the Interstate 55 and Northside location voted unanimously to unionize their store Monday night.   Starbucks Workers United announced tha…

The NZCTU is slamming a decision by the Government in Budget 2024 to cut a programme which ensured that disabled workers are paid the minimum wage.

With working conditions deteriorating and road traffic deaths surging in South Korea, truck drivers’ outrage is leading to mass protest.<

The Supreme Court’s pro-corporate rulings highlight their detrimental impact on workers, unions, and environmental sustainability while advocating for reforms to reclaim democratic principles. The Supreme Court is now a clear and present danger. Watch...

After 30 years of outsourced cleaning in NSW schools and government buildings a significant warning has been issued by the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner that these arrangements pose a serious modern slavery risk, with the Commissioner suggesting the NSW Government considers returning cleaners to dir

As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.

Six members of the CNT in northern Spain have been sentenced to three and a half years each for charges of “coercion and obstruction of justice”. Apparently in Spain union activity can still land o…

The limited energy electricians' strike in the Puget Sound area has been going on for nearly ten weeks.

Editor's Note: Behind the image of Singapore as a wealthy city-state with an affluent population is the reality of a labor movement dominated by the state-controlled National Trades Union Congress and a tripartite system that disadvantages workers. In recent years, a new radical collective, Workers ...

As India’s heatwave intensifies, warehouse employees demand corporate accountability for hazardous working conditions

Windmill Farms mushroom workers and UFW President Teresa Romero come to Seattle to share their struggle to fight exploitation and unionize.   By SARAH TUCKER SEATTLE (May 30, 2024) — Farm workers at Windmill Mushroom traveled to Seattle on Wednesday to shed light on their years-long struggle for dig...

For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America’s iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in Fort Valley, a town of 9,000 people surrounded by peach and pecan orchards in central Georgia. Carolyn Allen has worked at Blue Bird for 13 years, and she talks about this fact ...

Members stop work – on a day many take off, anyway – in pursuit of better conditions

Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations

Starbucks has resumed bargaining with union leaders amid a fresh wave of organized stores after the world’s largest coffee chain agreed to open talks over labor agreements. After a long, embittered campaign, the Seattle-based coffee giant jointly announced a new framework with Workers United in Febr...

OTTAWA - Just as the summer travel season gets into gear, Canadians and visitors could find themselves waiting in long lines at the border — delays that could also deal

June 4th 4pm #erlangen #solidarity demonstration with striking workers of the university clinic. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7mZLQ7twyQ/ #erl0604 The workers have been fighting for better wages for several months now. Instead of negotiating with #verdi, the clinic has fired several workers. Mor...

Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.