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  • 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.

  • With Election Rule, Labor Board Takes Half Step Forward
    Jenny Brown, Mischa Gaus
    Jun 29 2011 - 10:59am

    The typical union vote in the U.S. subjects workers to two months of interrogation, intimidation, and threats that the shop will close, along with a sprinkling of company smiley-faces. That harrowing period could be shortened this summer.

  • Can Big-Box Retail Be Organized?
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 16 2011 - 12:34pm

    Target workers in Valley Stream, Long Island vote on union representation tomorrow. The election is the first at any of Target’s 1,755 stores and a win would crack the solidly anti-union wall surrounding big-box retail.

  • Unions Cross Borders to Organize Guestworkers
    Jenny Brown
    Jun 13 2011 - 10:23am

    Faced with a surge in guestworkers laboring in the fields, farmworker unions in the U.S. and Canada are crossing borders to organize them and to hold governments to account for programs that exploit workers.

  • A Victory and a Defeat for Farmworkers
    Jenny Brown
    Jun 13 2011 - 10:02am

    California’s United Farm Workers finally got a bill past the state legislature providing for majority sign-up union recognition. But in Canada, the country's highest court rubberstamped a law denying collective bargaining to 80,000 farmworkers in the province.

  • Rite Aid Warehouse Workers Win Contract after National Push
    Jenny Brown
    May 6 2011 - 2:00pm

    Winning a union is half the battle: the other half is securing a first contract. After three years, a union at Rite Aid’s huge California warehouse won an agreement with a campaign that spread to other unions and states.