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    News Article ● Strike Unions

    Activision Blizzard employees walk out over lifting of vaccine mandate

    April 6, 2022 // Activision Blizzard employees staged a virtual walkout Monday in protest of the company’s decision last week to rescind its coronavirus vaccine mandate for workers, according to multiple employees who participated. It is the game publisher’s fourth walkout since July of 2021 as the company continues to grapple publicly with multiple workplace issues.

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization

    ‘They Should Be Ashamed’: Understaffing at NYC’s Beloved Museum of Natural History Pushes Workers to Unionize

    March 28, 2022 // The union campaign arrives during a wave of organizing at museums and other cultural institutions across New York City and the United States, such as the Guggenheim and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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    News Article ● Labor Unions

    Boston, unions discussing hybrid work options

    March 17, 2022 // “The City and its labor partners had a discussion about implementing hybrid work models through collective bargaining,” a city spokesman said in a statement to the Herald on Friday evening.

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    News Article ● Labor

    Why media unions are demanding to participate in management’s return-to-office planning

    January 19, 2022 // For many media unions, the latest battleground is not the fight for wage increases or promotions: It’s the return to in-person work.

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