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Sep 13 2022
News
Mass firings, wage cuts and open hostility: workers are burnt out but still unionizing
Brandi McNease worked at a Chipotle in Augusta, Maine, where she and her co-workers had filed a union election in June 2022, the first location at the fast food retail chain to do so.
Chipotle closed the store permanently on 19 July, right before a hearing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on the union election, leaving workers saying they were blacklisted from being hired
The Guardian
Sep 13 2022
News
Free Speech Union calls on Liz Truss to censor family-friendly drag events
The so-called Free Speech Union (FSU) has called for prime minister Liz Truss to ban family-friendly drag in a social media post.
The self-proclaimed “organisation dedicated to upholding free speech” has, ironically, urged Truss to restrict events it views as “political indoctrination” at school in a tweet posted on Saturday (10 September).
The post also attached a Linkedin blog
PinkNews
Aug 31 2022
News
Americans' pro-union sentiment is higher than it's been in 57 years
A new Gallup poll shows that 71% of Americans say they approve of unions—the highest percentage since 1965.
Unions’ growing support among the US reflects the ongoing shift in attitudes toward work in general and the labor movement in particular, as people grow increasingly disillusioned with the idea that their jobs ought to take a central role in their lives—particularly when loyalty
Quartz
Aug 12 2022
News
Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union
The Biden administration delivered a death sentence Thursday to the labor organization that represents thousands of employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority’s decision erases the National ICE Council and leaves its 7,600 members, mostly deportation officers, without a collective bargaining agreement or union representation, members
Washington Times
Aug 25 2022
News
Starbucks creating ‘culture of fear’ as it fires dozens involved in union efforts
More than 85 workers at Starbucks who were heavily involved in union organizing efforts at giant coffee chain have been fired over the past several months, according to the workers group Starbucks Workers United.
Workers have filed numerous unfair labor practice charges over the firings and a federal judge recently ordered the reinstatement of seven workers in Memphis, Tennessee, who
The Guardian
Mar 01 2022
News
As Ukraine conflict rages, Biden seeks to unite Americans in State of the Union speech
U.S. President Joe Biden, who has earned praise for his efforts to rally European allies and other nations against Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, will turn to uniting Americans in the State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
With the conflict in Ukraine raging, Biden intends to use the annual speech to stress the importance of countering Putin and push his domestic
Reuters
Aug 22 2022
News
Columbus teachers union votes to strike days before school year begins
The Columbus teachers union in Ohio is on strike after a vote on Sunday, just days away from the district's first day of school on Wednesday.
Teachers began picketing outside over a dozen of the district's schools on Monday morning. The union said it will gather outside schools from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day until a deal is reached.
The Columbus Education Association, with 4,
ABC News (Online)
Jan 13 2021
Opinion
Europeans Recognize Trumpism for What It Is
Lucky are the foreign ministers of very small, very consensus-driven countries, for those who play their cards right sometimes get to hold office for many years. One of the luckiest card players out there is Jean Asselborn, the amusing polyglot who has been the foreign minister of Luxembourg since 2004. Although his country is tiny (population 613,000), the longevity of Luxembourg’s top
The Atlantic
Apr 06 2022
News
How much will Europeans sacrifice to save Ukraine?
Western solidarity with Ukraine will last as long as public sympathy holds. Vladimir Putin is betting democracies cannot withstand hardship. Can Europe and the U.S. prove him wrong?
It feels jarring – almost disrespectful – to write these words as civilian corpses are cleared from the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, after Russian troops retreated from the Kyiv suburb. But Ukraine’s fate may
Christian Science Monitor