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In an industry first, 150 migrant farm workers at Highline Mushrooms join the union UFCW 1518
Digital Journal· 4 days agoThe world, and the global food workers’ movement, is watching.” About UFCW Canada (the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ...
Rep. Salinas wants to extend disaster relief for farm workers
News 12 Augusta· 2 days agoSome lawmakers in Washington want to make sure farm workers get paid if a natural disaster strikes....
Column: How anti-union Southern governors may be violating federal law
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoSix Republican governors in the Deep South want their constituents to know that they’re looking out...
Cody Cain, Salon
The Raw Story· 7 hours agoThe meaning today of the "Big Lie" almost always refers to the false claim by Donald Trump and his right-wing cronies that the 2020 presidential election was somehow stolen by the left and Joe ...
‘You feel death at your doorstep but have no choice’: Extreme heat takes toll on outdoor workers
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThe summers have been getting hotter, she said, adding that the winters are milder and shorter. To...
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 5 days ago“We knew—if we didn’t win this time—the town would be a dead town,” a member of the Women’s Emergency Brigade said about her hometown of Flint, Mich. during the 1937 Sit-Down Strike on General ...
A history of Black coal miners in W.Va. is worth digging into, museum says
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoJun. 22—In West Virginia, where the Appalachian storytelling tradition still hangs in the hollows and along the ridgetops like a whisper of morning fog, it's not just the tale. It's the person ...
Report details why wealthy people really oppose democracy
The Raw Story· 5 days agoWhy are America’s plutocrats funding efforts to weaken our democracy and replace it with plutocracy...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 6 days agoUS president Joe Biden wants to force a deal upon rail workers. “I am calling on Congress to pass legislation immediately to adopt the Tentative Agreement between railroad ...
Farmworkers face high-risk exposures to bird flu, but testing isn’t reaching them
Utah News Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFarmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of...
