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  • Restaurant Workers Set Sights On Walmart Wannabe: Darden
    Jenny Brown
    May 24 2012 - 11:21am
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    Restaurant workers organizing with the Restaurant Opportunities Center have trained their sights on their most ambitious target yet—a giant chain that wants to become the Walmart of sit-down dining.

  • Bed Bath and Broke: Warehouse Workers Go for Election
    Mischa Gaus
    May 23 2012 - 4:32pm

    Warehouse workers organizing in key logistics hubs across the country could get a boost from a union vote at a Bed Bath and Beyond distribution center in New Jersey, where immigrant workers filed for a Labor Board election today.

  • Tax-Dodging GE Takes Union Fire
    Jim West
    Apr 25 2012 - 4:04pm

    At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this morning outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes. Signs read, "We pay taxes, why don't you?"

  • Supply Chain Workers Test Strength of Links
    Jane Slaughter
    Mar 29 2012 - 1:00pm

    Workers in the nation’s sprawling distribution network hold enormous potential power. Today warehouse workers are organizing in three hubs: the “Inland Empire” east of LA, a giant complex near Chicago, and the centers along the Jersey Turnpike.

  • A Shallow Victory on Living Wages in New York City
    Jenny Brown
    Feb 23 2012 - 9:36am

    After New York’s retail union announced a living wage deal, activists greeted the news with mixed feelings. Only a small number of workers will be affected, but activists think the campaign changed the conversation on low wages.

  • Big Box Scheduling Leaves Workers Exhausted and Broke
    Jenny Brown
    Dec 22 2011 - 11:02am

    Retail employees expect the holiday season to be hectic, but workers at big-box stores report a galling combination: unpredictable shifts but not enough hours to pay the bills or qualify for health coverage.

  • Workers Challenge Big Food
    Jenny Brown
    Nov 23 2011 - 10:51am

    Where does our food come from? “Farm to fork” may sound like a doctrine for foodies, but for workers in food production and service, struggling for decent jobs, it’s an organizing goal, as they attempt an alliance to take on the food mega-corporations.

  • SEIU Settles Sodexo’s Racketeering Suit, with Organizing Gains Uncertain
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 14 2011 - 10:05am

    The Service Employees' corporate campaign at the food-service giant Sodexo ended September in secrecy. It’s unclear if the agreement includes provisions that organizers say have led to success elsewhere.

  • California Grocery Workers Win Settlement, Wait for Details
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 22 2011 - 12:38pm

    Southern California grocery workers have wrested a tentative agreement from their three profitable employers. The union said the settlement “protects your health care” but did not release details.

  • Store Workers Say: Whose Walmart? OUR Walmart!
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 29 2011 - 7:45am

    Fear is the main thing stopping retail workers from organizing for better treatment at Walmart, said several employees who are doing just that. They lost their fear, they said, after they stood up for themselves and marched on Walmart headquarters.