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Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
Baristas at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, NY declared victory yesterday in the first union election in the history of the coffee giant. Workers voted in favor of unionizing by an overwhelming majority in the face of an aggressive anti-union campaign by Starbucks.
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
A clear majority of the iHeartPodcast Network, the fastest growing division of iHeartMedia, signed union cards to organize with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). The Guild has called on management to voluntarily recognize the union.
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
Columbia student workers are still on strike in what is currently the largest such action in the country. Three thousand workers, including undergraduate and graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University, are now in the sixth week of their strike.
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
The 30-member editorial staff at The Intercept, the investigative journalism digital news site, last night ratified its second union contract with the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO (WGAE).
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) on strike against Kellogg’s in Battle Creek, Mich., Lancaster, Pa., Omaha, Neb. and Memphis, Tenn. have overwhelmingly voted to reject the tentative agreement. The strike, which began on October 5, 2021, continues.
Reflecting on the vote, BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton stated, “The...
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
Workers at billionaire John Catsimatidis's United Metro Energy Corp have been on strike since April 19th. The immigrant workers provided gasoline, diesel, and heating oil to New York throughout the pandemic, while Catsimatidis — a major political donor — paid them wages as much as 50% lower than at other city oil companies. UMEC terminal workers, fleet mechanics, and service technicians voted to...
Dec 10, 2021 | News Story
We have always known that reducing class size is integral to student achievement, teacher retention and equitable schools, but it’s now also become an issue of public health. We must learn from the pandemic and take steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other viruses in the future. It’s time to recognize that we need safe classroom occupancy limits.
Dec 9, 2021 | News Story
The Workers United Education Program/CWE offers free English language and High School Equivalency classes (in English and Spanish) by Zoom.
Classes began in September but with open enrollment members can join at any time.
Reach out to Sherry Kane at skane@cwe.org for more information.
Dec 3, 2021 | News Story
Rodolfo Mendez, Martir Zambrano and Jorge Ramirez penned an OpEd in the NY Daily News this week calling for New York to close a loophole in the NY Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act which allows farmworkers to only receive overtime after working 60 hours in a week, instead of 40 like almost all of the rest of NY's workers.
Dec 3, 2021 | News Story
The BuzzFeed News Union has been bargaining its first contract for almost 2 years, but BuzzFeed still won't budge on critical issues like wages — all while preparing to go public and make executives even richer. So on Thursday, BuzzFeed workers, members of NewsGuild of NY, walked off the job for the day to demand that Buzzfeed get serious about a fair contract with adequate pay raises, affordable...