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- DNC Blasts McCaine on Trade, Colombia
July 2, 2008. MSNBC
DNC Vice Chair Linda Chavez-Thompson and Chief Economist for Unite Here Mark Levinson railed against McCain’s support for President Bush’s “failed” trade policies in response to the senator’s trip to Colombia. During the conference call, the duo also called into question McCain adviser Charlie Black’s role as a lobbyist pushing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
- Garment workers win historic compensation package
June 30, 2008. Montreal Gazette
The 540 workers at Golden Brand Clothing (Canada) Ltd. who are losing their jobs when the Montreal factory closes this month have won a compensation package that is being hailed as unprecedented in the city's apparel industry.
Parent company Men's Wearhouse Inc. of Texas last Friday agreed to pay those employees $3.5 million in severance, which will amount to between $3,000 and $9,000 each depending on seniority.
"We are very satisfied with this settlement," Lina Aristeo, Quebec council director of UNITE HERE (Union of Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees/Restaurant Employees International Employees Union), said today of the deal. "It is historic, especially for workers in the apparel industry."
- Is Irvine Industrial Launderer Prudential Overall Supply Cheating Workers Out of a Living Wage?
June 27, 2008. Orange County Weekly
Three California cities say yes
The toxic chlorine-gas mist rose from the floor drains around 7 a.m. on May 11, 2007, at an industrial-laundry facility owned and operated by Prudential Overall Supply of Irvine. The night before, an employee had mistakenly poured sulfuric acid from the hazardous-materials storage area through a wash pipeline normally used to feed bleach to the 800-pound washing machines at the plant.
- Food services workers step up protest
June 22, 2008. Boston Globe
Scores of food services workers marched in front of Boston's two main convention centers yesterday, launching a three-day strike to protest what they consider unfair labor practices.
- Workers at former Bianco plant rally
June 18, 2008. Standard Times
NEW BEDFORD — Outside the same South End factory where immigration agents loaded hundreds of handcuffed, undocumented workers onto buses in March 2007, union organizers, community activists and workers rallied Tuesday for new plant owners to allow them to unionize.
- Workers and the workplace
June 16, 2008. STLtoday
WASHINGTON — When the presidential campaign gets joined in earnest, a good deal of it will revolve around practical economic matters, including the struggles of ordinary Americans to make ends meet, have health care and enjoy the right to organize. The candidate who scores best on these issues will likely be the one who addresses such matters not in a theoretical way but rather who speaks in specific ways that resonate to real workers engaged in real cases.
- Court: Cintas Corp. ignored Hayward work laws
June 13, 2008. San Francisco Chronicle
In a precedent-setting ruling for cities across California, a state appeals court this week upheld Hayward's living wage ordinance as constitutional and ordered Cintas Corp., a laundry business that had contracted with the East Bay city, to pay $1.4 million in back wages, interest and penalties to 219 workers.
- Congress Hotel strike hits 5th year
June 12, 2008. Chicago Tribune
Before his daily turn on the 6 a.m. shift, Jose Sanchez tries to bury his worries. He looks forward to joining fellow union members who have been marching the same short picket line in front of the Congress Hotel for the last five years.
- Is Oakland Shortchanging Itself?
June 11, 2008. East Bay Express
Maria Luisa Contreras has worked at Prudential Overall Supply's laundry facility in Milpitas for more than nine years, but didn't learn that she wasn't receiving adequate compensation for her work until last fall.
- B’klyn Writer Wins Award For Series on Senior Citizens
June 4, 2008. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
PARK SLOPE — Park Slope resident and New York Times writer Charles Duhigg recently won the 2008 Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Awards with his series on how firms often take advantage of seniors citizens with questionable offers.
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