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Nearly 4,000 US meatpacking workers to strike at plant run by top Trump donor

Workers at JBS USA to strike Monday in what will be the first labor strike in the meatpacking industry in decades

The Guardian - US

CVS workers reach tentative contract agreement after weekend strike

The unions representing more than 7,000 CVS workers in Southern California have reached a tentative agreement on a contract

The Independent UK

Union Demands Investigation into Exploitation of Haitian Migrants at JBS Meat Plant in Colorado

UFCW Local 7 urges authorities to investigate alleged labor abuses at JBS facilities citing "serious human trafficking tactics."

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‘Can’t afford health insurance’: California CVS workers take strike vote

More than 7,000 workers to hold strike vote this week amid accusations of staff shortages and expensive healthcare

The Guardian - US

Grocery's biggest merger stuck in limbo

The merger of two of the country's biggest supermarkets now faces both state and federal legal hurdles

Salon

‘We’re not backing down’: US grocery workers take on Kroger with strike vote

Food 4 Less workers to vote on action if new deal is not reached, as employees say wages and benefits lag behind

The Guardian - US

Oregon ballot initiative filed to require gas pump attendants after state legislature repealed ban on self-serve gas in August

Two versions of an initiative to require gas pump attendants in Oregon were filed in October and November. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555 filed the initiated state statutes. To qualify for the 2024 ballot, proponents need to collect 117,173 valid signatures by July 5, 2024.

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"Devastating:" Kroger sells 400 stores

To prepare for their mega-merger with Albertsons, Kroger may have to sell an additional over 200 locations

Salon

Kroger makes another big payroll error

"I just want what’s supposed to be mine" said one of the impacted employees

Salon

Shock and anger after fired worker killed by police at Oklahoma pork plant

Chiewelthap Mariar, 26-year-old Sudanese refugee, shot dead after police called to escort him from Seaboard Foods factory in Guymon

The Guardian - US

New Jersey Cannabis Workers Unionize, Four More Big Companies Are Negotiating Contracts

Four major cannabis companies are negotiating contracts to unionize their workforce in New Jersey to bring the total to a half dozen multi-state operators, according to the head of UFCW - Local 360.

Benzinga

AOC: "Student debt plan could be better"

"Just enough to anger the people against it *and* the people who need forgiveness the most," says AOC

Salon

Cannabis Workers At New Jersey's Wonderland Smoke Shop Chain Looking To Unionize, Who's Next?

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 360 submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by the employees of Wonderland Smoke Shop, becoming the first cannabis accessories business to formally ask the NLRB to conduct an election to unionize.

Benzinga

Virginia Target workers seek to unionize amid surge in labor organizing efforts

Company has already reportedly pushed back by trying to use union dues as a tactic to deter workers from supporting the union

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Benzinga

Columbia Care And Acreage Holdings' Cannabis Workers In New Jersey Vote To Unionize

The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 360 announced that employees at Columbia Care's (OTCQX: CCHWF) Cannabist retail location and Acreage Holdings’ (OTCQX: ACRHF)&n

Los Angeles Times

Why Starbucks has become a huge unionization target — and why the company is in a panic

On April 7, Madison Hall, a barista and union organizer at the Starbucks store on Long Beach's bustling 2nd Street commercial strip, was invited to a session the next day to "meet with and co-create with upper-level management," Hall says.

Los Angeles Times

‘Unified and militant’: Grocery workers get double-digit pay raises in new contract

LOS ANGELES — Whipsawed by the pandemic, spurred by fury over wage stagnation and alarmed by inflation, Southern California’s unionized grocery workers gained their biggest pay raises in decades Thursday as they ratified a new contract with the region’s largest food chains.

Los Angeles Times

'Unified and militant': Grocery workers get double-digit pay raises in new contract

LOS ANGELES — Whipsawed by the pandemic, spurred by fury over wage stagnation and alarmed by inflation, Southern California's unionized grocery workers gained their biggest pay raises in decades Thursday as they ratified a new contract with the region's largest food chains.

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'A big win': New contract gives grocery workers their biggest pay raises in decades

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Southern California grocery workers authorize a strike amid contract negotiations

LOS ANGELES — Battered by two years of pandemic stress, tens of thousands of Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if supermarkets don't meet their wage demands as negotiations on a new contract resume in the coming weeks.

Benzinga

Michigan Report: Detroit Postpones Vote On Rec Marijuana, Cannabis Workers Unionize With UFCW

The Detroit City Council determined Tuesday that could not move forward with a vote on a marijuana ordinance to authorize recreational dispensaries in the city, reported detroitnews.com.

Benzinga

Cannabis Co. Shryne Group And UFCW Sign Historic Collective Bargaining Agreement For 1,200+ Workers

The Shryne Group Inc., a Los Angeles-based cannabis holding company covering the breadth of California and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) have entered into an historic collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for more than 1,200 cannabis retail workers at Shryne G

Benzinga

Marijuana Workers Unionize: STIIIZY And Authentic Cannabis Ratify Historic Statewide Labor Agreement

Newly organized cannabis workers at California's marijuana retailer STIIIZY and Authentic retail locations throughout the state ratified their first contract as UFCW members last week.

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