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Caesar Rodney board votes to increase teachers’ pay following referendum 

The Caesar Rodney Board of Education approved a new contract for the district’s union that raises pay for educators.

Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say

Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon issues. “They're trying to move backwards on issues we've already settled instead of settling the few that we have left,” said Mina Leon, a barista in downtown Manhattan who struck for two months to get the company back to the table.

After Three-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers

Last month, 3,800 meatpacking workers in UFCW Local 7 in Greeley, Colorado launched the industry’s first major strike in 40 years. The three-week unfair labor practice strike was the first time workers had ever struck the JBS Greeley beef packing plant, one of the company’s largest. ULP charges against JBS included the illegal termination of a member of the bargaining committee and surveillance and intimidation of workers for participation in union activity.

Counter Manufacturers are Killing Workers with Silica Dust, Safety Group Charges

Silicosis is a lethal workplace illness that killed thousands each year up through the 1960s. In recent decades, thanks to union workplace safety fights, it became much rarer. Annual deaths dropped to the hundreds. The disease affected mostly older workers with longer exposures. So it was hard for stonecutter Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez, 35, to get a clear diagnosis in 2019 when he first developed a cough and shortness of breath. It wasn’t until two years later that he was told he had silicosis—and only had a year to live.

AFL-CIO ‘Demands FIFA ‘Protect Workers & Keep ICE Out Of Host Cities’ – LaborPress

How to Halt a Deportation Flight

A network of rank-and-file union members and immigrant solidarity activists in Washington State banded together to stop a deportation in process.

LMU Lets Go of a Pregnant, Non-Tenured Faculty Member – LaborPress