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Over 13,000 People Became Union Members Last Week
This past week alone, more than 10,000 working people chose to join together in union for the freedom to negotiate a fair return on their hard work. From flight attendants to...
Stopping Sexual Harassment
Over the last few weeks, a spotlight has been shown on one of the worst and most underreported workplace violations, sexual harassment. While UCOMM covered the fallout from Fox’s Roger Ailes...
Big Union Win in Vegas
Yesterday, Station Casinos agreed to a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which made Palace Station its second hotel-casino in Las Vegas to be unionized, with its workers now...
Watch ABC's When We Rise
This week, the ABC network has released the groundbreaking TV mini-series, When We Rise. The series focuses on the advocacy work of Cleve Jones, a noted LGBT and Labor Activist, who wrote a memoir by...
They Beat a Billionaire and Won
Workers at Trump hotels have faced substandard working conditions for years. While Trump portrays himself as a gaudy billionaire stuck in the 1980’s, his employees in Las Vegas were being...
Strike at Harvard
At 5 AM on Wednesday morning, food services workers at the world’s richest university, Harvard, walked off the job. The workers met outside of Annenberg Hall, where over the next few hours,...
Showcasing the best of the USA
It’s been four years in the making, but the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are finally here. Before the thrilling competitions take place, and shiny new medals are awarded, over 10,500 athletes from...
AC Strike moves to 5th Ave
The strike against Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal grew more tumultuous yesterday, when strikers rallied outside the New York City offices of Donald Trump and Carl Icahn. They accused both...
Clinton walks picket line in AC
On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton’s labor tour made a stop in Atlantic City. The rally, held outside of Donald Trump’s failed property Trump Plaza, was just a few hotels down from where...
The Fight against the Boardwalk Empire
In Atlantic City, this Fourth of July Weekend may see more fireworks then those over the boardwalk. That is because UNITE HERE Local 54, the union that represents 6,000 casino employees, has...