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[TRENDING NEWS] McCollum on Simmons Trade Rumors, Vaccines and Blazers Firing

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Author: BY TANIA GANGULI - Publish Date: December 13, 2021 at 01:12AM Portland guard CJ McCollum is facing challenges both personal and professional in his first year as president of the players’ union. “It’s the life I chose,” he said.

[TRENDING NEWS] Ken Moffett, Top Federal Mediator and Union Official, Dies at 90

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Author: BY RICHARD SANDOMIR - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 12:24AM In the busy summer of 1981, he mediated labor disputes involving baseball players, postal workers and air traffic controllers. He later briefly ran the players’ union.

[TRENDING NEWS] Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions, Averting Strike

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: November 14, 2021 at 03:01AM More than 30,000 West Coast workers at the health care provider had planned to go on strike on Monday.

[TRENDING NEWS] Starbucks workers at three more Buffalo-area stores file for union elections.

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: November 10, 2021 at 02:38AM The petitions were submitted as employees at three other stores prepared to vote in a unionization effort.

[TRENDING NEWS] Los Angeles police union sues city over details of Covid-19 vaccination mandate.

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Author: BY ISABELLA GRULLÓN PAZ - Publish Date: October 31, 2021 at 12:54AM

[TRENDING NEWS] Union for John Deere Workers Reaches Tentative Deal to End 2-Week Strike

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: October 31, 2021 at 12:28AM The agreement must still be approved by U.A.W. members. They had rejected an earlier accord negotiated by the union.

[TRENDING NEWS] Inside Amazon’s Worst Human Resources Problem

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Author: BY JODI KANTOR, KAREN WEISE AND GRACE ASHFORD - Publish Date: October 25, 2021 at 05:41AM A knot of problems with Amazon’s system for handling paid and unpaid leaves has led to devastating consequences for workers.

[TRENDING NEWS] What the Ben Simmons Standoff Means for the Sixers and the N.B.A.

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Author: BY SOPAN DEB AND JONATHAN ABRAMS - Publish Date: October 23, 2021 at 02:07AM Simmons is the latest N.B.A. star to ask for a trade then try to force his way off a team, but Philadelphia is holding firm so far.

[TRENDING NEWS] Hollywood’s Behind-the-Scenes Workers Reach Deal on New Contract

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Author: BY BROOKS BARNES - Publish Date: October 17, 2021 at 07:49AM The tentative deal averts a strike set for Monday and a production shutdown at television and movie studios already scrambling to make up for time lost in the pandemic.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘If You’re Not Vaccinated, Don’t Come to Work’

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Author: BY MARA GAY - Publish Date: September 30, 2021 at 02:00AM Unions are hurting their members and the rest of us by fighting vaccine mandates.

[TRENDING NEWS] Nabisco Workers End Weekslong Strike After Reaching New Contract

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Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: September 20, 2021 at 03:20AM The impasse began in August after members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union objected to changes in shift lengths and overtime rules.

[TRENDING NEWS] Cage Fighters Need Unions, Too

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Author: BY JAY CASPIAN KANG - Publish Date: September 17, 2021 at 02:05AM But organizing MMA fighters is a particularly tough challenge.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Power in Numbers

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Author: BY DAMON WINTER AND BINYAMIN APPELBAUM - Publish Date: September 6, 2021 at 12:20AM Workers across the U.S. are finding new ways to organize and exercise power, even in the face of corporations determined to undermine unions.

[TRENDING NEWS] Starbucks Faces Rare Union Challenge as Buffalo Workers Seek Vote

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: August 31, 2021 at 01:15AM The organizing campaign, if successful, could upend the company’s labor model. Employees say chronic understaffing has long caused frustration.

[TRENDING NEWS] Met Opera Reaches Deal With Orchestra, Paving Way for Reopening

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Author: BY JULIA JACOBS - Publish Date: August 25, 2021 at 12:26AM The labor deal means that the company, the largest performing arts organization in the nation, is on track to reopen next month after the pandemic kept it closed for more than a year.

[TRENDING NEWS] Anthony M. Scotto, Former Union Power on the Docks, Dies at 87

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Author: BY DAVID STOUT - Publish Date: August 24, 2021 at 02:25AM He rose to leadership in the longshoremen’s union as a polished reformer, but the U.S. called him a Mafia boss, and he served prison time in a racketeering case.

[TRENDING NEWS] Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88

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Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: August 22, 2021 at 01:44AM As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics.

[TRENDING NEWS] Richard Trumka, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief, Dies at 72

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: August 5, 2021 at 11:29PM A third-generation coal miner from Pennsylvania, he had led the labor federation since 2009.

[TRENDING NEWS] Frito-Lay Workers in Kansas Ratify Contract, Ending Strike

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Author: BY MARIA CRAMER - Publish Date: July 25, 2021 at 12:58AM The workers at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka went on strike this month to protest forced overtime and so-called suicide shifts, which they said left little time to sleep or see family members.

[TRENDING NEWS] There’s a New Duo That Could Help Rein In Amazon

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Author: BY STACY MITCHELL - Publish Date: June 18, 2021 at 02:00AM Labor and small business were once natural allies against big business. They should join forces again.