Minnesota
How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage Jobs
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Though the Federal Trade Commission is proposing to ban noncompete agreements, other kinds of restrictive covenants perform a very similar function.
Minnesota
UMN Grad Workers Express Hope and Urgency as They Gear Up for Union Election
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Over 65% of University of Minnesota Graduate Workers have signed their union cards, an optimistic start after many attempts over the past several decades.
International
Preparing for War in the South China Sea
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Ahead of massive war games involving US and Filipino troops, the Defense Department announced that it will get access to four new sites in the Philippines.
Book Review
Telling a Complete Story of the Pandemic Must Start with Workers
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What a new book can teach us about listening.
Organizing
What Captive Audience Meetings Are—And Why Minnesota’s Labor Movement Wants to Ban Them
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Why workers say captive audience meetings are coercive and unfair.
Midwest
The Filthy Emissions of Railroad Locomotives—and the Rail Unions Sounding the Alarm
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Diesel engines have gotten a sweetheart deal from environmental regulators. It’s time that changed.
Midwest
She Refused To Take a Drug Test Before Getting a Workplace Injury Treated—And Was Fired
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A worker’s arm was mangled in a machine. Before treatment, a manager requested a drug test.
Midwest
To Prevent Future Rail Tragedies, We Need to Nationalize the Rail System
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“Corporate greed [is] turning railroads into banks to extract billions and billions of dollars from what should be critical infrastructure.”
International
Palestinian Worker Says UN Refugee Agency Is Retaliating Against Him for Leading Strike
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Nearly 4,000 Palestinian UNRWA workers in the West Bank are on strike for better pay.
International
How Biden Can End Secretive Corporate Tribunals
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The president has promised not to put anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in future trade deals. But they are still in many existing ones.