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• Volkswagen works council backs fresh UAW efforts at Tennessee plant

  11 Sep 2014: Global works council supports United Auto Workers to represent its workers at German carmaker’s Tennessee plant

• Yes, you should feel bad for models: we're being told to go diet – or go broke

  9 Sep 2014: Sara Ziff: The unregulated modeling industry relies on young, mostly foreign girls working their way out of impossible debt. For all the criticism about weight, shouldn’t we get legal rights?

• Were fast-food workers paid to strike and protest?

  8 Sep 2014: McDonald’s says protesters were paid to walk off the job, which strikers say is a corruption of the fact that unions pay arrest fines

• Fast-food striker: 'I hope my daughter knows I'm doing this for her'

  6 Sep 2014: I work at McDonald’s in Chicago. I was one of the thousands of fast-food workers nationwide who went on strike for fairer wages

• US employment payrolls drop because of strikes at one supermarket chain

  5 Sep 2014: Market Basket’s troubled summer shows how regional drama affects lower job growth across the whole US

• Does watching the NFL make you evil?

  5 Sep 2014: Jeb Lund: Given its attitude toward women and racism, the health of its players and the economy, it’s a wonder we remain fans at all

• Do fast-food strikes actually work?

  4 Sep 2014: Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership
  

• Lights, camera, industrial action: how trade unions stormed our screens

  4 Sep 2014: Steve Rose: From the micro-solidarity of Two Days, One Night, via the political corruption of On the Waterfront and everything Ken Loach has ever made to new feelgood mining drama Pride – labour rights are a surprisingly cinematic topic

• It's time to raise the minimum wage. If Congress would rather suck up to the Koch brothers, we'll raise it anyway

  2 Sep 2014: Sarah Jaffe: As long as politicians see billionaires as their base, they won’t vote for $10 an hour. So workers have taken matters into their own hands

• Fast food workers plan biggest US strike to date over minimum wage

  2 Sep 2014: Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other chains to hold walkout protest on Thursday as battle to unionise escalates

• Volkswagen workers in Tennessee attempt to form union to counter UAW

  26 Aug 2014: Organizer said proposed Chattanooga union will be the first chapter of what will be called the American Council of Employees.

• New York Metropolitan Opera makes deals with two unions as deadline looms

  18 Aug 2014: Though contracts with 2,500 singers, musicians and crew have expired, opera company continues to negotiate with 10 unions to avert lockout

• Yes, I am a teacher. No, I am not going to destroy society and your children

  12 Aug 2014: Valerie Braman: The anti-union celebrities (and their secret backers) have taken the war on teachers public. But educators shouldn’t have to defend doing our jobs

• US fast-food workers fight McDonald's as battle for better wages heads to court

  2 Aug 2014: Ruling by National Labour Relations Board could pave the way for unions to negotiate national deal on pay talks

• Wisconsin's 2011 anti-union law upheld by state supreme court

  31 Jul 2014: Law introuced in 2011 effectively ended collective bargaining for public workers and sparked massive protests

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