Washington state making history as the first state to ever offer a comprehensive bill of rights to exotic dancers southseattleemerald.com/2024/04/23/sex…

Yesterday workers at a Trader Joe's in Chicago voted 70-to-70 in a union election. One contested vote will determine who wins

Wrote about how liberal America's beloved grocery chain has gained a reputation for fighting union efforts
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Union contracts covering 40K hotel workers in 18 cities expire this year, including at Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt. That could mean some major strikes.

Thousands of these workers will protest tomorrow as they prepare for potential labor dispute.

The Fight for $15 is changing its name to Fight for a Union

With Not Nearly Enough Workplace Safety Protections, Latino Worker Deaths Are Surging

Latinos have the highest fatality rate. In 2022, 1,248 Latino workers were killed on the job in the U.S., a 57% jump from a decade earlier.
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OSHA fines Mar Jac in MS, the same chicken plant where a 16 year old was killed last fall- for not providing required bathrooms toilets for their workers. This is a rare citation- and so stunning for a food company. Inhumane. osha.gov/ords/imis/esta…

Amazon has been fighting a subpoena to produce documents related to in-house expenditures on union-busting at the JFK8 warehouse (e.g., travel expenses for corporate officers to hold captive meetings).

A federal judge just ordered the company to comply:
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I went on PBS NewsHour tonight to talk what I heard at the Starbucks hearing at the Supreme Court today.

It appears likely that the court will side with Starbucks, making it more difficult for union activists to get reinstated when companies retaliate.
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Major win today for labor: A non-compete ban

'The FTC estimates that banning noncompete agreements could create jobs for 30 million Americans and raise wages by nearly $300 billion per year.'

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Two big things happened today that are extremely popular:
--FTC moved to ban non-competes
--Labor Dept moved to expand overtime protections to millions more workers
Both reforms happened because of Biden and in spite of Republicans. And both could die before GOP-appointed judges.

NEW: 5 major pension funds have now committed more than $1 trillion in assets requiring robust labor standards in private equity investments, the WH announced today.

That includes CalPERs & as of today, the New York State Common Retirement Fund

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TODAY: Starbucks is challenging a federal judge's order to reinstate the Memphis 7 organizers from Starbucks Workers United before SCOTUS today.

A victory for Starbucks could have have a chilling effect on union organizing the US, advocates say.

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I sat down with Zach Costello, one of the victorious Volkswagen UAW members, to talk about making history, problems in the plant, and what comes next. jacobin.com/2024/04/chatta…

HUGE NEWS: Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee have voted to unionize, according to the UAW.

They are the 1st Southern auto factory to vote to unionize since the 1940s.

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Scoop: The NLRB plans to seek an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over labor law violations. Petition likely to be filed in coming days.

Workers at the newspaper have been on strike for 18 months.
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NEW: 13 workers at Petco in Michigan are forming a union and seeking to join UFCW.