Tag: Labor
Poverty Wages Push Thousands to Strike in Minneapolis
Over 4,000 Minneapolis Public Schools educators are on strike. It’s Minneapolis teachers’ first strike in over 50 years, and the largest strike currently occurring in…
March 13, 2022
Wendy’s Farmworkers Are Calling For a Boycott
What do Joe Manchin, Donald Trump, and the Baconator have in common? Wendy’s Chairman Nelson Peltz. He’s the man standing between farmworkers supplying tomatoes to…
March 10, 2022
Cops, Courts, and Corporations Are Collaborating to Crush Workers
When workers in America go on strike, corporations are turning to police forces and judges to defeat them. Nationwide, including at the largest and most…
March 9, 2022
Leaked Video: Starbucks Fires Second Union Leader in Buffalo
Starbucks fired a long-time barista and outspoken union organizer in Buffalo on Friday for being less than half an hour late to work several days…
March 7, 2022
Leaked Footage: Starbucks Manager Drives Brave Pro-Union Worker to Tears
Leaked footage obtained by More Perfect Union reveals a dramatic confrontation between a Starbucks manager in Phoenix, AZ, and a 19-year-old union leader. The manager…
March 4, 2022
UPS Workers Stalked and Abused After Workplace Injuries
UPS is forcing injured workers back on the job and threatening workers who complain. We spoke with veteran UPS employees terminated due to a workplace…
March 3, 2022
UC San Diego Creates a Housing Crisis for Graduate Student Workers
Graduate student workers at The University of California San Diego are demanding housing justice. Workers earn poverty wages and the vast majority struggle to afford…
March 2, 2022
Amy’s Kitchen Workers Forced to Wrap 10+ Burritos a Minute Are Unionizing
Amy's Kitchen projects an image of progressive values and cruelty-free food. But the workers we spoke with are subject to on-the-job injuries and company neglect.…
March 2, 2022
Maine Governor Betrays Migrant Farmworkers
Where in America is it legal to pay workers less than minimum wage? In states like Maine, farmworkers can be fired for unionizing and are…
February 23, 2022
Starbucks Attempting To Force Out Union Leaders At Buffalo Stores
By Jordan Zakarin Multiple leaders of the Starbucks union drive in Buffalo, New York, have been warned that they may be fired in the coming…
February 18, 2022
‘Hershey Prison:’ Workers Who Make Reese’s Expose Brutal Factory Conditions
Over 70+ consecutive days worked. 5 days off out of 365 in a year. That's what life is like for the workers who produce Reese's…
February 18, 2022
Michigan to Vote to Whether or Not to End Tipped Minimum Wage
Since the pandemic, 1 million workers have left the restaurant industry. 80% surveyed reported they would only return if given a livable wage guaranteed by…
February 17, 2022
