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    News Article ● Labor Strike Unions

    NYC’s New School tells students to attend class while professors strike

    November 17, 2022 // Part-time professors at Manhattan’s New School went on strike on Wednesday — but the progressive university wants students to cross the picket line to keep attending classes while their instructors fight for better wages. Parents were stunned when they received an email from the university on Wednesday that said that despite the professor strike, the school “remains open and instructional activities are ongoing.” The school, which can cost upwards of $60,000 per year, said it’s encouraging students to keep up with their work through an “alternative instructional plan

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    News Article ● Labor Strike

    Teachers at the Blue Man Group’s “Progressive” School Strike Over Union Busting

    May 27, 2022 // The private Blue School in New York teaches labor history. Its teachers just walked off the job.

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    Blog ● Unionization

    Unionization Is Starting to Spread Across the Retail Sector

    May 19, 2022 //

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    Op-ed Research ● Unionization Unions

    Workers Are Beating Big Bosses, but Organized Labor Can’t Keep Up

    April 27, 2022 // Worker-led unions are transformational, while organized labor has become transactional.

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    News Article ● Labor Unionization

    Apple Store Unionization Effort in Motion at New York Flagship Location

    April 19, 2022 // A group of workers at Apple's flagship retail store in Manhattan has begun formally gathering signatures to form a union, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Organizers at Apple's Grand Central Terminal store say they voted Feb. 21 to affiliate with Workers United, the national labor union involved in recent efforts to unionize at Starbucks outlets, the paper reported.

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    News Article ● Strike Unions

    US unions see unusually promising moment amid wave of victories

    March 16, 2022 // Gebre said the nation’s unions should send far more organizers and money to back the union drives at Starbucks and Amazon. “The rest of the labor movement should be willing to lend a hand,” even if they don’t get any of the members, said Gebre, who was recently named Greenpeace’s chief program officer. “That’s what solidarity means.”

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    Op-ed ● Unionization Unions

    Why even progressive companies like REI are wary of unions

    January 28, 2022 // Ultimately, a company that engages with an employee union will likely have to give up some power and control. But at a time when employees increasingly expect to have a say in everything from remote-work policies to their company’s ethical practices, trying to resist employee activism in any form is a losing proposition. Far better to embrace it.

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    News Article ● Unionization

    Workers at REI Store in Manhattan Seek to Form Retailer’s Only Union

    January 23, 2022 // Despite the organizing efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks last year, membership in unions declined to 10.3 percent of the work force, matching its lowest figure in Labor Department records that date back to 1983.

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