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DARK SECRETS: 3 - The Real Truth

Starbucks fired a union organizer. New York City got him rehired

Austin Locke was sacked days after he helped unionize workers. A monumental new labor law means he’s back on the job

The Guardian - US

Air cargo workers at O’Hare strike for a day

The employees accuse Swissport International of perpetuating unsafe working conditions and threatening a pro-union worker.

Chicago Sun-Times

Union Station: Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission issues decision on collective bargaining for UW Health nurses

The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) ruled on Nov. 25 that the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (UW Health) is not legally required to collectively bargain with UW Nurses United, a chapter of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin.

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‘The success is inspirational’: the Fight for $15 movement 10 years on

Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goals

The Guardian - US

Hospital giant HCA fends off accusations of questionable inpatient admissions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jennifer Smithfield felt weak and still had trouble breathing in February after nearly two weeks with COVID-19. It was a Sunday, and her doctor’s office was closed. So her primary care physician suggested going to an emergency room to be safe.

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California union alleges that fast-food effort to block new labor law is 'willfully misleading voters'

California's largest union on Thursday lodged a complaint with state officials alleging that a fast-food industry coalition violated state election rules in its campaign to block a landmark labor law from going into effect.

Los Angeles Times

As Shapiro and Fetterman run as a ticket, Mastriano and Oz avoid each other

PHILADELPHIA — As Attorney General Josh Shapiro thanked a group of union workers gathered to launch a day of door knocking around Philadelphia, he gestured to Lt. Gov. John Fetterman waiting at the foot of the stage.

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Union Station: Appellate courts issue rulings in three public-sector union lawsuits

Two three-judge appellate panels, one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, issued rulings in three lawsuits involving public-sector union fees or dues in the past week.

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Labor’s brewing renaissance: Union drives gain steam at Starbucks, other coffee shops

The success of SEIU in organizing baristas in Chicago has led to the arduous task of negotiating first contracts in settings where worker turnover can be high.

Chicago Sun-Times

New #TheyLied Libel-by-Implication Case, Related to Firing of Service Employees International Union Official

From Fells v. SEIU, decided yesterday by the D.C. Court of Appeals in an opinion by Judge Joshua Deahl, joined by Judges Corinne Beckwith and John Fisher; not as colorful as the inimitable Memphis Pub. Co. v. Nichols (Tenn. 1978), but still an interesting modern example of the libel-by-implication doctrine:…

Reason

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 28

Welcome to The Heart of the Primaries, Democratic Edition

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Puerto Rico's debt deal didn't go far enough, a labor leader says. But a new political order may be emerging

Puerto Rico's contentious pact with the Financial Oversight and Management Board — the U.S.-appointed attempt to trim the island's oppressive debt — has been touted as a model for U.S. states and cities when bankruptcy threatens. But the deal has left the island with dim economic prospects and "unsustainable" billions…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Union: County holding back COVID, bonus pay for 2021 strikers

Members of SEIU Local 73 spent 18 days on strike last summer.

Chicago Sun-Times

AOC: "Student debt plan could be better"

"Just enough to anger the people against it *and* the people who need forgiveness the most," says AOC

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85% of California fast-food workers have experienced wage theft, study finds

When Alicia Lara picked up a second job and started working at the Jack in the Box in North Highlands, California in 2018, she regularly found herself forced to work through legally mandated breaks.

Chicago Sun-Times

SEIU members rally for ‘Babies before Bezos’

The downtown rally was held on the same day the Economic Policy Institute released a report that shows 69 percent of Illinois corporations paid no state corporate income taxes from 2015 to 2018.

Axios

Big Labor is failing to meet the moment, advocates say

After overseeing decades of decline, big unions aren't quite used to this kind of excitement around organizing.

The Guardian - US

Airport workers ramp up pressure for a living wage and union rights

From baggage handlers to wheelchair attendants, jobs – often outsourced – offer low pay, few benefits and vary wildly by city

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Lillie Petty, union organizer who ‘changed the face of labor in Chicago and nationally,’ dead at 76

A founding member of Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union, she helped it grow into the largest union local in the Midwest and seventh-largest SEIU local nationally.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Make no mistake that we stand with Ukraine’ — union holds rally, donates $10,000 to country fighting off Russian invasion

Serhiy Koledov, General Consul of Ukraine, expressed his gratitude for the donation from SEIU Local 1 and thanked the world for extending “a helping hand” since the “first minutes of war.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Balanoff retires as head of SEIU Local 1

After years of labor and political activism, he says he’s “leaving behind a great local. We’re always ready to fight for working people.”

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