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Sega of America Union Workers Ratify Contract Less Than a Year After Recognition - IGN
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Sega of America Union Workers Ratify Contract Less Than a Year After ...
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Claude Cummings Jr.: The Biden administration is fighting back against Big Tech
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Claude Cummings Jr.: The Biden administration is ...
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Microsoft is cutting around 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. The cuts represent around 8% of the overall Microsoft Gaming division ... Show more
Quick Glance: Mass Layoffs in Microsoft Gaming Division
  • Microsoft announces layoffs in the Microsoft Gaming division.

  • The 1,900 cuts primarily affect former Activision Blizzard employees after the acquisition by Microsoft.

  • In addition to the Activision Blizzard layoffs, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees are affected.

  • The staff reduction amounts to approximately 8 percent of the total workforce of the Microsoft Gaming division.
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Wells Fargo branch workers in California vote against union: Wells Fargo (WFC.N) employees at a small bank branch in Atwater, California, voted against forming a ...
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Wells Fargo branch workers in California vote against union
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Despite game industry layoffs, I have hope thanks to our ZeniMax union: With all the layoffs happening in the video game industry, unionization can be the thing ...
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Despite game industry layoffs, I have hope thanks to our ZeniMax union
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Sega of America Laying Off 61 Staff - IGN: Sega of America is laying off 61 staff on March 8, 2024 as job losses continue to devastate the video game industry.
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Sega of America Laying Off 61 Staff - IGN
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The video game industry has laid off thousands this year. Here’s what that means for you
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The video game industry has laid off thousands this year. Here’s what that ...
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Clearwater raises pay to recruit and keep city employees: The move will cost $6.1 million and result in an average increase of 9.1% for nearly 1,500 workers.
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Clearwater raises pay to recruit and keep city employees
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Workers at Harris County's mental health nonprofit seek to unionize: Workers at the Harris Center for Mental Health, the county's mental health services ...
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Workers at Harris County's mental health nonprofit seek to unionize
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The (ongoing) fight against workplace AI surveillance : Artificial intelligence has inspired fear among labor unions and legislators over how companies use it to ...
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The (ongoing) fight against workplace AI surveillance
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‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work: Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but US ...
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‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work
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Wells Fargo workers at New Mexico branch vote to unionize, a first in modern era for a major bank
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Wells Fargo workers at New Mexico branch vote to unionize ...
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To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns From the Past
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To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns ...
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Wells Fargo unionizes in New Mexico, Alaska branch withdraws petition: Albuquerque is the first Wells Fargo branch to unionize. Its Bethel, Alaska ...
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Wells Fargo unionizes in New Mexico, Alaska branch withdraws petition
Quick Glance: Wells Fargo Unionizes in New Mexico
  • Albuquerque branch of Wells Fargo votes to unionize

  • Bethel branch in Alaska withdraws union election petition

  • Walker Sexton, personal banker at Bethel branch, explains the decision to withdraw the petition

  • Sabrina Perez, bank worker at Albuquerque branch, shares the significance of the victory
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How unions gambled big on strikes in 2023 and won: Like the post-WWII era, the post-pandemic years united workers who underwent a collective experience extreme ...
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How unions gambled big on strikes in 2023 and won
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10 Working-Class Victories to Celebrate in 2023: From the picket lines to state houses to the White House, champions in the fight against inequality landed huge ...
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10 Working-Class Victories to Celebrate in 2023
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Microsoft to include labor unions in discussions on AI’s impact to workers: In a historic first, Microsoft says its giving labor leaders a seat at the table for ...
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Microsoft to include labor unions in discussions on AI’s impact to workers
Quick Glance: Microsoft Partners with AFL-CIO to Address AI's Impact on Workers
  • Microsoft gives labor unions a voice in discussions about AI technology development and implementation.

  • The alliance aims to facilitate open dialogue on AI's impact on the future of work, with a focus on information sharing, worker perspectives, and policy shaping.

  • The partnership emphasizes the importance of worker involvement in the development, deployment, and regulation of AI and related technologies.

  • The agreement also includes a 'neutrality framework' for future organizing efforts by workers with the AFL-CIO unions and its affiliates.
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eBay Violated Labor Law Trying to Bust Its First Union, NLRB Finds: The National Labor Relations Board found merit to two unfair labor practice charges filed ...
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eBay Violated Labor Law Trying to Bust Its First Union, NLRB Finds
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Alphabet Illegally Refused to Negotiate With YouTube Contract Staff, NLRB Rules: Alphabet Inc. has illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music ...
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Alphabet Illegally Refused to Negotiate With YouTube Contract Staff ...
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Starfield Testers Had To Unionize To Get A Copy Of The Game: Microsoft has recognized a new union of temporary workers at ZeniMax Studios
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Starfield Testers Had To Unionize To Get A Copy Of The Game
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Exclusive: A third Wells Fargo branch plans to vote on unionizing: Wells is the only big bank in the U.S. facing serious unionization efforts.
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Exclusive: A third Wells Fargo branch plans to vote on unionizing
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The fight to clean up the toxic legacy of semiconductors: Health, labor, and environmental activists are trying to shore up lax pollution exposure standards for ...
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The fight to clean up the toxic legacy of semiconductors
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Wells Fargo is facing an alarming new problem that could affect your everyday banking
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Wells Fargo is facing an alarming new problem that could affect your ...
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Wells Fargo is facing an alarming new problem that could affect your everyday banking
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Wells Fargo is facing an alarming new problem that could affect your ...
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University of Utah health care workers have unionized. This is what they want.: Health care workers across the University of Utah’s hospitals and clinics have ...
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University of Utah health care workers have unionized. This is what they ...
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Nina Turner Launches Organization to Support Striking Workers: The former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate said she was inspired by the nearly ...
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Nina Turner Launches Organization to Support Striking Workers
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Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge Moderators Struggle to Keep Users—and Themselves—Safe: An investigation revealed that workers dealing with user reports on dating apps ...
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Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge Moderators Struggle to Keep Users—and ...
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Workers Accuse Sega Of Threatening Mass Layoffs Over Unionizing: The Sonic publisher has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint
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Workers Accuse Sega Of Threatening Mass Layoffs Over Unionizing
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Medicare and ACA Call Center Workers Strike: What To Know: Hundreds of Medicare and ACA call center employees have walked off the job in seven states over better ...
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Medicare and ACA Call Center Workers Strike: What To Know
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Obamacare Call Center Staff Strike Over Steep Health Care Costs and Scarce Bathroom Breaks
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Obamacare Call Center Staff Strike Over Steep Health Care Costs and Scarce ...
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Microsoft spent two years trying to buy Activision Blizzard. For Xbox CEO, that was the easy part
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Microsoft spent two years trying to buy Activision Blizzard. For Xbox CEO ...
Quick Glance: Microsoft acquires Activision for $69 billion
  • Microsoft overcomes regulatory hurdles to acquire Activision Blizzard

  • Microsoft proudly showcases its expanded collection of intellectual property

  • Microsoft announces concessions made to UK regulators

  • Activision games will not be exclusive for cloud streaming
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What the Microsoft Activision deal means for labor unions: The Communications Workers of America said the blockbuster acquisition 'will transform the video game ...
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What the Microsoft Activision deal means for labor unions
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Could the UAW strike last 11 weeks? It could be even longer.: Several unusual features make predicting the strike's course unpredictable.
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Could the UAW strike last 11 weeks? It could be even longer.
Quick Glance: Trump pretends to support workers amid UAW strike
  • The former president is undeniably trying to impress Michigan workers.

  • Trump repeatedly boasted about his extensive infrastructure plans, promoting one infrastructure week after another.

  • Trump successfully passed a significant legislation: $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations, while providing minimal benefits to workers like the UAW members on strike.

  • When it comes to unions, Trump doesn't genuinely support them - what he supports is union members supporting him.
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Striking auto workers want a four-day workweek. It makes sense.: Thousands of auto workers are on strike over pay raises, healthcare and pension benefits ...
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Striking auto workers want a four-day workweek. It makes sense.
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Why Wells Fargo is the only big bank where workers are trying to unionize: The reason traces back to scandals of the past.
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Why Wells Fargo is the only big bank where workers are trying to unionize
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Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force a return to office
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Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force a ...
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Grindr's controversial RTO policy causes employee exodus: Union says return-to-office policy is an unlawful attempt to silence workers.
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Grindr's controversial RTO policy causes employee exodus
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Grindr loses about half its workers after issuing RTO ultimatum: About 80 of the dating app's 178 employees declined to relocate and have lost their jobs ...
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Grindr loses about half its workers after issuing RTO ultimatum
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Grindr ‘Unlawfully’ Purged Staff at LGBTQ Dating App, Union Says: The union alleges severance agreements offered to former staff broke the law and the company ...
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Grindr ‘Unlawfully’ Purged Staff at LGBTQ Dating App, Union Says
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New York State pay transparency law goes into effect Sunday: The law requires employers to post "good faith" salary ranges with job advertisements.
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New York State pay transparency law goes into effect Sunday
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A resurgence of organized labor in America | GUEST COMMENTARY: Organized labor is reaching into spaces once thought to be unreachable.
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A resurgence of organized labor in America | GUEST COMMENTARY
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Grindr Punishes Staff for Union Drive With RTO Order, Union Complaint Says: Grindr Inc., the LGBTQ dating company, is using a new return-to-office policy to ...
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Grindr Punishes Staff for Union Drive With RTO Order, Union Complaint Says
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New Florida law has Tampa Bay labor unions scrambling for members: Unions say SB 256 was crafted to sabotage them, but state officials say it will help workers.
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New Florida law has Tampa Bay labor unions scrambling for members
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Sega of America employees vote to unionize: Employees at Sega, known for titles such as Sonic the Hedgehog, voted to unionize, forming the largest ...
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Sega of America employees vote to unionize
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America is barreling toward a summer of strikes: More than 650,000 American workers are threatening to go on strike this summer — or have already done so — in an ...
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America is barreling toward a summer of strikes
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Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired: Two weeks after workers at the company announced a union drive, Grindr management has ...
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Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired
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Humans Are Haunting the Chatbots: Search engines, ChatGPT, and other AI tools wouldn’t function without an army of contractors. Now those workers say they’re ...
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Humans Are Haunting the Chatbots
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Colorado’s creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions for leverage
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Colorado’s creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions ...
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Colorado’s creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions for leverage
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Colorado’s creative, cultural and service-industry workers look to unions ...
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Biden Is Investing in Green Energy Across the South — Throwing Swing State Union Workers Under the Bus
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Biden Is Investing in Green Energy Across the South — Throwing Swing State ...
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Humans Are Haunting the Chatbots: Search engines, ChatGPT, and other AI tools wouldn’t function without an army of contractors. Now those workers say they’re ...
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Humans Are Haunting the Chatbots
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Microsoft's deal to buy Activision is nearing a close. Here's how it's already changed the business
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Microsoft's deal to buy Activision is nearing a close ...
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‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I.: To many people, chatbots and other technology feel like a ticking time bomb ...
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‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I.
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Google contract workers accuse Alphabet and Accenture of violating labor laws: The Alphabet Workers Union has filed a complaint against Alphabet and Accenture ...
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Google contract workers accuse Alphabet and Accenture of violating labor ...
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Grindr Employees Launch Union Drive Amid Tech Layoffs and Anti-LGBT Attacks: Employees at the LGBTQ dating company Grindr Inc. are petitioning to unionize ...
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Grindr Employees Launch Union Drive Amid Tech Layoffs and Anti-LGBT ...
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eBay charged with multiple unfair labor complaints in struggle with its first union
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eBay charged with multiple unfair labor complaints in struggle with its ...
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Sonic Maker Sega Is The Video Game Industry’s Next Union Battleground [Update: Over 200 Staff Unionized]
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Sonic Maker Sega Is The Video Game Industry’s Next Union Battleground ...
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Grindr employees are unionizing: "Grindr employees are officially out of the closet and forming a union."
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Grindr employees are unionizing
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They helped train Google’s AI. Then they got fired after speaking out.: Google leaned on its army of contractors to help train AI. After some raised concerns ...
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They helped train Google’s AI. Then they got fired after speaking out.
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Google Fires Contractors Who Voted to Unionize With AWU-CWA: Google is reportedly laying off its Help workers subcontracted through Accenture after they voted to ...
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Google Fires Contractors Who Voted to Unionize With AWU-CWA
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Houston's Claude Cummings Jr. elected CWA president: Houston's Claude Cummings Jr. is elected first Black president of Communications Workers of America.
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Houston's Claude Cummings Jr. elected CWA president
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IDA, Communications Workers of America Reach Tentative Labor Agreement: The International Documentary Association and the Communications Workers of America Local ...
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IDA, Communications Workers of America Reach Tentative Labor Agreement
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Nike Name-dropped by Campaigners Promoting Bill to Stop Stock Buybacks: Who is winning when "Nike turns its back" on the economic devastation of women ...
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Nike Name-dropped by Campaigners Promoting Bill to Stop Stock Buybacks
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Wells Fargo employees in Oregon allege anti-union behavior by managers: Pro-union workers at a Wells call center allege that supervisors repeatedly tore down ...
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Wells Fargo employees in Oregon allege anti-union behavior by managers