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Haiti Garment Workers Deserve $15 Per Day
The weeks-long garment workers strike in Haiti is emblematic of international corporations promoting slave labor and putting profits above lives.
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Sherrill picks up key union endorsement from Workers United in bid for New Jersey Governor
TRENTON, NJ - Rep. Mikie Sherrill added a key endorsement to her growing list of organizational supporters today when the politically active and innovative union Workers United announced they will back her in the race for New Jersey Governor.
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Starbucks Tries To Slow Union Elections But Misses Legal Deadline By 8 Minutes
The coffee chain's legal team said Microsoft Outlook crashed as it was emailing the files. A labor board official didn't have much sympathy.
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Starbucks Is Retaliating Against Union Leaders, Fired Worker Cassie Fleischer Says
Starbucks worker who was fired from her job at the coffee chain's first unionized store says she believes the company is retaliating against her and others for leading unionizing efforts.
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Phoenix Baristas Claim Starbucks Spied on Workers, Trying to Bust the Union
Starbucks managers responsible for a bustling drive-thru location in North Phoenix are accused of employee surveillance and attempting to dissuade them against unionizing, federal labor records obtained by Phoenix New Times shows.
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Starbucks workers’ union drive, spreading across the U.S., has reached the company’s Seattle home
Workers at a Starbucks Corp. store in Seattle will hold a unionization vote, giving the labor group that recently won landmark New York elections a chance to expand its new foothold to the coffee giant’s hometown.
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Union vote at Arizona Starbucks put on hold
The effort to unionize Starbucks workers is one of the country's most closely-watched labor organizing drives in years. On Wednesday, that effort was temporarily put on hold.
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