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UAW strikes Iowa wheel plant United Auto Workers members at the Thombert plant in Newton, Iowa, have been on strike since August 1. Thombert is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of polyurethane wheels and tires for narrow aisle lift trucks. Contract negotiations with Thombert bosses broke down after 90%…

Two weeks after employees filed to organize, the company told some they had to change cities or would lose their jobs. It said the plan had long been in the works.

U.S. labor board prosecutors prepared to bring Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) into the books for violating federal labor law at an Oregon call center pending a settlement.

SAN FRANCISCO —In the latest evidence that Silicon Valley bosses hate workers who stand up for themselves, a Google subcontractor, Accenture PLC, fired more than two-thirds of its Google Help staffers—80 of the 119—for their unionizing efforts with Alphabet Workers Union, Communications Worker...

This story originally appeared in Truthout on Aug. 9, 2023. Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. Two weeks after workers at Grindr announced their intention to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the company’s management issued a mandatory return-to-office (RTO) policy. A supermajority of Grindr employees, many of whom identify as LGBTQ, unionized with CWA to combat the tech lay-offs that have plagued the sector, to shield existing work benefits, including

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WASHINGTON—Saying 28 million U.S. workers would get a pay raise, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., plus 29 other senators, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028, and entirely eliminate the so-called “tipped minimum wage,” raising those workers to minimum-w...

CHARLESTON — Members of the Communications Workers of America at Frontier Communications in West Virginia and Ashburn, Virginia, have agreed with the company to continue negotiations and extend the current

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Two weeks after workers at the company announced a union drive, Grindr management has issued a return-to-office policy that workers say is retaliatory.