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    News Article ● Strike Unionization

    Rep. Tlaib tells striking Great Lakes Coffee workers they deserve better

    February 28, 2022 // U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined more than 200 people who rallied in support of striking Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co. workers in Detroit on Wednesday, telling the baristas and cooks they deserve better pay and work conditions.

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    News Article ● Strike Unionization

    Great Lakes Coffee workers in Detroit go on strike, demand better pay and working conditions

    February 17, 2022 // “It is not OK how hard we have to work for the little amount we get paid when we know damn well that when we come to Great Lakes they are doing just fine,” Santiago-Romero said during the rally. “We need to make sure that we get a piece of the pie.”

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    Blog Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor

    A Misguided Republican Gift to Big Labor

    February 8, 2022 // At the 35,000-foot level, a works council is a collective forum that petitions the employer on improving working conditions, receives communications of proposed changes to working procedures, and engages in formalized labor-management dispute resolution. Typically, the works councils are not empowered to call strikes or other industrial actions but are granted some power to bargain with the employer on behalf of the workers at their given work sites.

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    Janus hasn’t stopped unions from wielding power over school closures

    January 25, 2022 // Pandemic-induced school closures underscored the conflict of interest between teacher unions and students. Strong union districts had less in-person instruction, which hit minority communities in urban centers especially hard. The power to determine the mode of instruction belies the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court put public-sector unions on a road to extinction with its 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Unions

    I’m Stuck With an Anti-Semitic Labor Union

    January 21, 2022 // It denounces Israel and treats me as a second-class citizen for resigning.

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    News Article ● Unionization

    Polis throws cold water on public unions bill

    January 21, 2022 // Colorado: A bill to allow public employees to engage in collective bargaining has run into its biggest hurdle: lack of support from Gov. Jared Polis

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    News Article ● Labor Strike

    From essential status to strikes, 2021 was the ‘year of the worker’

    December 28, 2021 // As the pandemic wore on, the year was dominated by strikes, unionization efforts and worker mobilization.

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