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Federal labor regulators are looking to force Starbucks to reopen stores that were closed across the country in 2022 in a move that was allegedly done to suppress union organizing.
Facebook wants to empower you to make the world more open and connected as you suppress your workers' legal right to form a union. The social media giant that seemingly goes out of its way to be ...
The state and the nation's largest union of public employees will head to court over an arbitrator's decision that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was within his rights to order the layoffs of more than 150 state workers last year. [10] The state filed a suit before a Sangamon County, Illinois judge to uphold the arbitrator's ruling. AFSCME Council ...
The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the nationwide strike. At the "Battle of the Viaduct" in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, between protesting members of the Chicago German Furniture Workers Union, now Local 1784 of the Carpenters Union, and federal troops killed 30 workers and wounded over 100.
The miners union issued a statement deploring "the unfortunate affair at Gem and Frisco." But the governor sent in six companies of the Idaho National Guard to "suppress insurrection and violence". After the Guard secured the area, Siringo came out of the mountains to finger union leaders, and those who had participated in the attacks on the ...
(The Center Square) – Illinois’ minimum wage is set to go up to $15 an hour beginning Jan. 1. Tipped wages will go to $9 an hour. Some want that to be abolished and for tipped workers to get ...
Since unions are organized to achieve collective bargaining power to begin with, most union conflicts have been motivated primarily by economic issues (wages, working hours, safety conditions, work rules, etc.), [7] and have engaged antagonists (employers, hired strikebreakers, replacement workers, local law enforcement) with economic goals in mind.
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