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Labor Reporter @GuardianUS

Gainesville, FL
Joined May 2015
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Israel accused of breaking global labor law by withholding Palestinian worker pay as 10 international trade unions file wage theft complaint
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Student debt should not exist.
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A Kellogg's worker on strike last night holding down the picket line through torrential rain in Omaha, Nebraska via @Kelloggstrike Facebook page
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Some Kellogg's workers are asking the public to stop buying Kellogg's products as workers have been on strike for two months and the company is working to replace them rather than negotiate a fair contract. This is a beautiful post from a workers' wife on the strike
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Likely the biggest union battle in the country right now, 41,000 union members fighting Disney's poverty wages as Disney withholds their bonuses and its barely getting covered in the media
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Seven major labor unions, the UAW, AFA, SEIU, NEA, APWU, UE, and IUPAT have called on the Biden Administration to halt all military aid to Israel
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Amazon workers at DEN4 in Colorado say an elderly worker died on the job on 12/28 after returning from a medical leave and instead of shutting down the area, Amazon managers stacked boxes around the body until a coroner could arrive so they could keep workers working through it
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Whole Foods, Amazon, Target, and Instacart workers are striking on May 1st
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Whole Foods is giving workers a new work uniform shirt with "hero" on the front and "hardcore" on the back as hundreds of workers have gotten sick and at least 2 have died from coronavirus for just a $2 an hr wage increase
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Starbucks is closing down a store in Ithaca, NY with a one week notice after the workers voted to unionize
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Dogs love picket lines. John Deere workers on strike in Moline, IL
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A Walmart worker on how they're being treated during the pandemic. "We aren't heroes. We're hostages."
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Amazon is using the historically infamous Pinkerton security to union bust and surveill workers
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This guy gets a 26.5 percent raise after presiding over $3 billion in losses and people have the audacity to lose their minds over fast food workers getting $20 an hour in CA
@Variety
Variety
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior.
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Flight attendants at United Airlines authorize strike with 99.9 percent in favor
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3 years
News: @AOC is joining the picket line on Saturday afternoon at Catholic Health Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, NY where 2k healthcare workers are on strike over a long-standing staffing crisis
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American Airlines CEO received $10.66 million in compensation last year, still forced thousands of workers into leave, early retirement, and furloughs. Now he's blaming labor shortages and weather for cutting flights
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Ana Cabrera
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NEW: American Airlines canceling hundreds of flights through mid-July in part due to labor shortages and “unprecedented weather”
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Workers changed the sign at at cinema pub in Ogden, UT announcing a strike over OSHA violations, unsafe working conditions
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3 years
I spoke with Starbucks workers who launched a union organizing drive this week. They have publicly requested Starbucks agree to a fair union election process amid the company's union busting record
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2 years
221 Starbucks stores won union elections, so far, but only 3 stores have had their first bargaining sessions due to Starbucks’ union-busting and delay tactics The NLRB is currently processing 284 unfair labor practice charges against Starbucks
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16k nurses in NYC set a strike date for January 9 over chronic understaffing. It would be the largest private sector nurses strike in US history
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#Striketober 60,000 Film and TV workers set 10/18 strike date 10,000 John Deere workers strike deadline tonight 2k hospital workers in Buffalo already on strike 1,400 Kellogg's cereal workers 1,100 coal miners in Alabama 30k+ Kaiser Permanente health workers authorized strike
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14,000 Kroger workers in Houston, Texas overwhelmingly rejected company's contract proposal and have authorized a strike
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Some dystopian Amazon warehouse content via reddit
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@intrnetdaughter You'd go to jail in Italy for this
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4 years
A Tesla worker told me they are being intimidated into returning to work with false claims their unemployment benefits will stop; Tesla workers can continue collecting and do not have to return to work while shelter in place order is in effect.
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Elon Musk
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Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.
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On January 9th, an Oklahoma meat processing plant called the police on a worker, a 26-year-old Sudan refugee, who shot and killed him. The worker who took this video leading up to the incident said the worker was fired by a supervisor, but HR told them to finish their shift.
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Starbucks closes another union store, in Colorado Springs, a day before bargaining was set to begin
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John Deere workers on the picket line this morning, sent to me by a worker
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Michael Sainato
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You can mute "Susan Sarandon" and its free. The mental healthcare you need for your seething hate toward her in lieu of introspection within the Democratic Party establishment might cost a little more
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Neera Tanden🌻
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I would literally pay for a service to purge @SusanSarandon in every form from my feed. This woman has borne no pain from her stance on Trump and seems perfectly happy at the suffering of others. Kids in cages. But thankfully she’s inspired.
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Workers at Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, MN walked off the job last night to protest the firing of a worker after she pushed for better safety protections
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Student debt should not exist
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10,000 grocery workers at Kroger owned Fred Meyer and QFC stores in Oregon have begun a weeklong strike today
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2 years
I find it really funny that a Fortune 500 company feels compelled to turn off comments on its posts trying to explain to the public why their own workers are striking
@StarbucksNews
Starbucks News
2 years
Get the Facts: Starbucks Response to Workers United Strike at Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo
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The Texas law that nullified mandated water breaks for construction workers in Austin and Dallas has been ruled unconstitutional
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Texas AFL-CIO
1 year
BREAKING: HB 2127 has been declared unconstitutional. This is a HUGE win for the working people of Texas, local govs, and communities across our state. While we expect an appeal, it remains clear this law is an unacceptable infringement on the rights of Texans and cities.
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Starbucks workers are asking the public to push back on Starbucks' decision to permanently close the store after workers went on strike last month to demand the company fix a broken grease trap #CollegeAveStrong #ShameOnStarbucks
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Trader Joe's CEO sent out an anti union letter to workers during the pandemic
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Can't wait to release this Amazon union busting training video telling managers to be on the lookout for scary union words like "living wage"
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NEW: Whole Foods workers are calling for a sickout across the US on March 31st in response to worsening working conditions through the coronavirus pandemic
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2 years
Police claimed in a press release the worker was armed with a knife, but the worker who took this video claimed all he had was a small box cutter knife used in the packing section, which the worker can be seen holding.
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Chick-fil-A workers in Ventura, California are going on strike today over wage theft, harassment, and the illegal firing of a coworker
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Do not cross the picket line, do not scab, support the Kellogg's workers' strike funds and show your support if you are in the Omaha, Battle Creek, Memphis, or Lancaster areas. Workers are holding the line against Kellogg's through rough winter conditions right now.
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My Labor Radio
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This is now Biden's senior adviser
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@NBCNewsPR
NBC News PR
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In an exclusive interview airing tomorrow on @MeetThePress , @JoeBiden called on @SenSanders to accept greater accountability for tactics and rhetoric of his staunchest supporters: "If any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them.” READ MORE:
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The real labor shortage is the billions of dollars a year bosses short their workers from their labor via wage theft
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Whole Foods just fired the worker who was tallying US cases of coronavirus among Whole Foods workers
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California Federation of Labor Unions
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We're seeing some truly awful behavior from corporations right now. @Amazon is refusing to disclose the number of #COVID19 infections in their facilities, putting workers at-risk just to pad their bottom line... #SickofGreed #ProtectWorkers @athenaforall
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Domino's workers in Los Angeles are on strike after 4 workers tested positive for COVID-19.They filed an emergency complaint with county public health officials to shut the store down
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Michael Sainato
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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Perretti, whose net worth is estimated at $200 million, is anti-union and has opposed any efforts for BuzzFeed employees to unionize so he can get away with cuts like this
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Lukas I. Alpert
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BuzzFeed plans to cut about 250 jobs, or 15% of workforce
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14,000 Disneyland workers have voted 99 percent in favor of an unfair labor practice strike authorization. The bargaining committee can call a strike at anytime as the contract expired last month
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3,400 grad workers at University of Southern California file to form union
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Flight attendants at American, United, and Alaska Airlines are fighting to be paid for all time on duty in new contracts "All of that time we spend with passengers on the ground or sitting and waiting for other aircrafts in between flights goes unpaid"
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Michael Sainato
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Over 5,000 transit workers in Philadelphia are holding a strike authorization vote this Sunday
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Michael Sainato
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@dulcedecommie @AnnaVolodova Not suspicious at all🤔
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DNC comms consultant scrubbed their MSNBC role right after I asked MSNBC about Elrod appearing on the network while getting paid $5k monthly in 2019 by the DNC. MSNBC won't comment on record. Elrod has frequently disparaged Bernie, defended Biden on the network.
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Southwest Airlines flight attendants represented by TWI Local 556 call out the airline company for massive cancellations that are also leaving flight attendants stranded and blame years of neglect to technological improvements that would fix operational issues
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USC grad workers have filed ULP charges with the NLRB over the university's response to peaceful protests and arrests of union members
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The union representing workers at the EPA are calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency and take action to address the climate crisis
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Kroger sent this 'no one wins with a strike' memo out to workers ahead of the strike vote overwhelming approved by workers in the Columbus, Ohio area
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UFCW Local 2 has called for a federal investigation of the incident
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6,300 healthcare workers in Buffalo, NY vote to authorize a strike
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Fast food chains advertise for 14, 15 year olds to work there to pay them less and use as justification for paying poverty wages across the board
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cait jr
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god this is depressing
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Michael Sainato
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You lost. This is a disgusting power grab. The Democratic Party machine is trying to throw out 2000 votes to swing the election
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Melinda Katz
5 years
Every vote was counted and every voice was heard. I’m honored to be the Democratic nominee for Queens District Attorney.
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In a first, a group of Amazon delivery drivers in California have unionized
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Good afternoon to the NYT workers who responded to executives bashing a unionization effort on Slack with 'Vote Yes' emojis
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10-day strike notice issued to Kaiser Permanente for 75,000 workers. Contract expires September 30
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All the big insurance companies are starting to pour money behind Blue Dog Democrats to ensure Medicare for All supporters aren't elected into congress with the blue wave
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Michael Sainato
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McDonald's workers in Oakland, CA are on strike, shutting down the restaurant since yesterday. Today they held a protest outside demanding PPE and paid quarantine leave h/t Fight for $15
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Easy fix. If Biden dropped out, then there would be no reason to pay attention to his horrid record and the dumb things he says every time he's in front of an audience, which always happens to be insanely rich people.
@thehill
The Hill
5 years
NEW: Democrats want White House hopefuls to cool it on Biden attacks
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53,000 hospitality workers are taking a strike vote next week in Last Vegas
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In any rational discussion, cheaters don't get to use the favorable results to downplay cheating
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Wal-Mart has refused to give the $2 an hour hazard pay most grocery stores offered workers during the pandemic. Instead all they're getting is a free candy bar and soda or a single scoop of ice cream
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Starbucks has fired over 125 union supporting workers with the company denying, appealing, and refusing to acknowledge wrong doing as workers are beginning to win court and NLRB rulings over labor laws violations
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Starbucks has fired at least 9 union supporting workers in Denver, Colorado alone after their stores voted to unionize “Every single day for three months, I walked in expecting to be fired"
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Michael Sainato
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@latimes @latimesopinion Should probably disclose the author worked for Warren's daughter while she headed Demos
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Michael Sainato
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Taco Bell workers in San Jose are on strike because their owner refuses to fix the air conditioning
@CAFastFoodUnion
California Fast Food Workers Union
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We're also striking to demand a safe workplace. We face excessive heat in the middle of a heat wave. We're demanding an AC system that works and believe that there is a gas leak in the storage area near the water heater. Fix it, @tacobell
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Employers steal billions in wages from workers every year
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Around 300 workers at ZeniMax win union, the first video gaming studio at Microsoft to win union representation and now the largest certified unionized gaming studio in the US
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160k actors 11k writers Thousands of hotel workers in CA 1.4k Wabtec Looming possible strikes 340k UPS workers 22k Yellow workers 1.5k IATSE Later this year 150k autoworkers 85k Kaiser Perm. 224k workers struck in 2022, up from 140k in 2021, and 2023 is on track to be bigger
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Boots Riley
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It's spreading. The longer the strikes go on- the more of the working class gets emboldened to fight.
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Sesame Street writers authorize strike, picketing could begin next Wednesday
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Michael Sainato
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If min wage is $1, then gas will be 20 cents according to this moron with 47k likes
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Whole Foods executives are working from home and they have the audacity to cut paid breaks for workers during a pandemic. This is after cutting healthcare benefits in 2019 and eliminating hazard pay last June.
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Michael Sainato
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The scummy PR firm hired by the cop who killed Botham is hard at work, and plenty of sleazy media outlets are more than willing to print this racist smear campaign against a murder victim
@FOX4
FOX 4 NEWS
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DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting
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Starbucks suspended an entire store of workers in South Carolina for presenting a letter of demands to the manager
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Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history tomorrow morning “They always praised us as healthcare heroes during the pandemic and now they’re treating us like zeros by not bargaining in good faith”
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Michael Sainato
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Disney has no problem letting putting their workers through 60 hour weeks just to get by, but are notorious for refusing time off. In this article, a former employee notes a colleague's time off request for her wedding was rejected 9 months in advance,
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Last year, Disney was forced to pay $3.8 million in stolen wages from employees for forcing their workers to buy their own uniforms and costumes
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Michael Sainato
6 years
Breaking: Burgerville employees in Portland, Oregon will be allowed to vote on forming a union, which would make it the first fast food union in the United States
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Michael Sainato
7 years
Disney is withholding bonuses only from union members involved in negotiations of wage contract. If unions don't accept meager proposal from Disney by August 31, they lose entire bonus.
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Michael Sainato
2 years
48,000 TAs, grad workers, and student researchers are voting to authorize a strike with results expected tomorrow If they go on strike, it will be the biggest strike in the history of higher education
@CaliforniaLabor
California Federation of Labor Unions
2 years
What’s more, 17,000 of these workers are striking for their very first contract. They’re fighting for fair pay, affordable housing, workplace equity for international scholars and working parents and other basic measures of dignity.
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Michael Sainato
3 years
Prior to the strike authorization vote, Kroger was refusing to meet with the union for contract negotiations. Kroger is now meeting with the union on November 30.
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Michael Sainato
3 years
Kroger workers in Houston are picketing this week ahead of a possible strike in demand of a fair union contract. H/t @ufcw455
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Michael Sainato
6 years
Bernie Sanders is the only politician speaking out on this issue. I've met with dozens of Disney workers struggling to make ends meet and living out of motels or their cars over the past several months, #StopDisneyPoverty
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Michael Sainato
7 years
Disney union members are starting protest for fair wages
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Michael Sainato
7 years
Unions are asking for a $15 an hour minimum wage. Under Disney's current proposal, it wouldn't get there until 2028. Disney Property falls under its own municipality and sets local wage standards because of their size. Disney World is largest single location employer in US
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Michael Sainato
1 year
A judge ruled Starbucks founder Howard Schultz personally broke labor law by telling a worker they should quit if they dont like Starbucks' anti-union behavior
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Michael Sainato
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McDonald's hired a registered sex offender as a manager who then raped a 14-year-old employee at a Pittsburgh, PA location. McDonalds and the franchisee have agreed to a settlement of $4.35 million
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Michael Sainato
5 years
Today Amtrak announced they are eliminating dining car services. What they fail to mention is the union jobs they're eliminating along with it.
@natsowinski
nat
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Workers in the Amtrak Service Workers Council (TWU, UNITE HERE, TCU-IAM) are protesting job cuts in dining car service and also standing in support of passengers against Amtrak's shift to lower quality meals, and this sign is the funniest thing ever to me
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CEO pay at Ford, GM, and Stellantis has increased 40 percent while worker wages have fallen 19.3 percent since 2008 with inflation taken into account. CEO pay at the Big 3 is substantially higher than CEO pay at foreign automakers with bigger revenues
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Michael Sainato
3 years
1,400 workers who produce cereals from Fruit Loops to Frosted Flakes are on strike at four Kellogg's plants in the US
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Michael Sainato
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100k flight attendants across 3 unions and multiple airlines are picketing at +30 major airports today in their fight for setting new industry standards in contract negotiations ‘It’s going to be historic’: US flight attendants picket at major airports
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Michael Sainato
7 years
DNC Lawsuit Attorneys filed notice with court alleging unsolicited contact from Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Michael Sainato
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Over 1,300 Part-time faculty staff at The New School in NYC are set to strike tomorrow
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Michael Sainato
7 years
Disney pays workers so little, many of them experience homelessness and have to live in pay-by-the week motels. That means no kitchen, only one room many have to share with other employees, and they often have to move around.
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