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Doctors are joining unions in a bid to improve working conditions and raise wages in a stressful health care system

The share of doctors who belong to unions is rising quickly at a time when organized labor is losing ground with other professions. The Conversation U.S. asked Patrick Aguilar, a Washington University in St. Louis pulmonologist and management professor, to explain why the number of physicians joining unions is growing…

The Conversation

Dad of DC shooting suspect attended Trump’s address to Congress in March as guest of a Democratic congressman

Eric Rodriguez, father of double murder suspect Elias Rodriguez, attended Donald Trump’s Joint Speech to Congress at invitation of Illinois representative

The Independent UK

UC Riverside should investigate economics research center, faculty say

LOS ANGELES — Some University of California faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside that they say uses corporate funding for reports "attacking proposals to improve the lives of working Californians."

Los Angeles Times

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Air cargo workers at O’Hare strike for a day

The employees accuse Swissport International of perpetuating unsafe working conditions and threatening a pro-union worker.

Chicago Sun-Times

New service union seeks to inspire labor movement in South

Over 100 service industry workers have gathered in the capital of the state with the county's lowest unionization rate to launch a new union and try to boost labor organizing across the U.S. South

The Independent UK

Unionized Starbucks in Edgewater closing, labor organizers say

The location at 1070 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. was among the first in the city whose employees affiliated with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Michael Hiltzik: The fast-food industry gears up to kill another pro-worker state law

Political PR and advertising firms in California are going to owe Gov. Gavin Newsom a huge favor. That's because by signing the so-called Fast Recovery Act on Sept. 5, he opened the door to what could be hundreds of millions of dollars in spending by fast-food companies to kill it.

Los Angeles Times

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New #TheyLied Libel-by-Implication Case, Related to Firing of Service Employees International Union Official

From Fells v. SEIU, decided yesterday by the D.C. Court of Appeals in an opinion by Judge Joshua Deahl, joined by Judges Corinne Beckwith and John Fisher; not as colorful as the inimitable Memphis Pub. Co. v. Nichols (Tenn. 1978), but still an interesting modern example of the libel-by-implication doctrine:…

Reason

Starbucks store in Edgewater becomes latest to unionize

The location becomes the seventh in the Chicago area to align with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks workers in North Park vote to unionize

The store becomes the sixth in the Chicago area to affiliate with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Union loses 2 of 3 elections at Starbucks in Chicago

The votes mark an unusual setback for a campaign led by Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, that has spread across the country.

Chicago Sun-Times

Workers at two Edgewater Starbucks stores vote to unionize — first in Chicago for coffee giant

Organizers say workers at two locations in Edgewater have affiliated with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union, in an ongoing national campaign.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks workers at LaGrange store reject union

The employees voted 9-6 against affiliating with Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cary store becomes 1st Chicago-area Starbucks to unionize

The vote to join an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union was 17-4 in a count supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.

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Union vote scheduled for 3 Starbucks stores in Chicago

Workers at the locations have sought rights to bargain as members of Workers United, part of the Service Employees International Union.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lillie Petty, union organizer who ‘changed the face of labor in Chicago and nationally,’ dead at 76

A founding member of Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union, she helped it grow into the largest union local in the Midwest and seventh-largest SEIU local nationally.

Chicago Sun-Times

Starbucks union campaign reaches 5 Chicago-area sites

Employees have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union election, part of a national organizing effort with the Service Employees International Union.

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