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UCOMM Live: Talking Jobs and Wages with Great Scott Dworkin
Amazon raised all of their employees minimum wage to $15 an hour to keep their warehouse workers and Whole Foods employees from organizing. Union hotel workers in Boston and Chicago are on strike...
Global Strikes at Airport Over Fair Pay and Benefits
Airports across the world are facing protests today as airport workers are taking their fight for better wages and benefits to some of the world’s largest airports and hubs. The actions are...
New Pseudo Union has no Bargaining Rights
For the last 6 years, the Fight for $15 movement has been leading the fight to raise the minimum wage and organize low wage workers. While the movement has gotten minimum wage increases in a number...
McDonald's Shareholders to Meet Resistance
In the Windy City low wage workers are taking to the streets in what the Fight for $15 Chicago is billing as their largest rally to date. The rally will march from Daley Square to the flagship...
Another Fight for $15 Victory
Airport workers at New York City’s three largest airports, JFK, LaGuardia and Newark have won recognition for their union as well as a raise to $15 an hour.The 8,000 subcontracted workers mark...
The Fight for $15 Strikes Again
Through the rain in New York, thousands of fast food, airport workers, Uber drivers, messengers and more, held a one day strike to call for higher wages and the right to organize a union. The...
A High Volumed Thanksgiving
Tomorrow we carb up and prepare for the epic battle of Drunk Uncle v. Uncle Remus. Football, family fights and premature Christmas Ads. Since fighting is our craft in organized labor, everyone in the...
1,000 new SEIU Members
After years of hard work and organizing, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has announced that employees of AirServ have gained union recognition.AirServ, which is a Delta Subcontractor...
Not so rich in Richmond
Just a few years ago, the Fight for $15 was seen as a pipe dream. People laughed at the idea that burger flippers and retail workers should be paid a living wage. Over time, feelings have...
A poor persons convention
Following the DNC Philadelphia convention Fight For $15 worker activists will hold their own national convention. The workers say they will meet in the heart of the old confederacy in Richmond...