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September 11, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

In today’s news and commentary, workers at REI’s SoHo store walk out, Minnesota unions and worker centers develop a construction industry code of conduct, and New York passes three landmark workers’ rights bills. This weekend, workers at the REI store in SoHo (the first REI in the U.S. to unionize) walked out to demand that […]

Backhanded Compliment: Acosta Threatens Workers Centers

Nov 20, 2017 Sharon Block

In his hearing before the House Education and Workforce Committee last week, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta issued an ominous warning to worker centers across the country. When asked by Rep. Francis Rooney (R. Fla.) whether the Department of Labor would begin regulating these “union front organizations,” Acosta previewed that DOL may be taking a step […]

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September 11, 2023

Backhanded Compliment: Acosta Threatens Workers Centers