July 7, 2015 By LaborPress Workers at nine Loblaws supermarkets in and around Windsor, Ontario, went on strike July 2. The about 1,600 employees, represented by United Food and Commercial
June 25, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco Queens, NY – Imagine putting in 40 hours a week at your job, but still not earning enough to get off of public assistance. Some of the
June 22, 2015 By Marc Bussanich Brooklyn, NY—In May the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation announced that the grocery supermarket chain Wegmans would be an anchor tenant along Admiral’s Row
June 17, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Despite a nationwide groundswell of popular and political support for a $15 an hour minimum wage — as well as a report
June 17, 2015 By Jack Levine, Canada LaborPress Toronto, Canda – Over 28,000 grocery workers at Canadda Loblaws will be gaining a contract. UFCW Canada local unions 1000A, 175 and
June 15, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – The nationwide campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage is unquestionably a tremendous win for long suffering fast food workers
June 15, 2015 By UFCW Local 655 President Dave Cook, UFCW Local 88 President Steven Straher, UFCW Local 2 President Tom Price Kansas City, Mo. – On behalf of the
June 9, 2015 By. Stephanie West Long Island, NY – Empire State Compassionate Care, owned and operated by the principals of the largest medical marijuana distributor in New Jersey, has
June 8, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – Fast food workers of the world rejoice — you really are getting closer. Not only have two more major American cities started
June 3, 2015 By LaborPress About 30 current and recently fired workers staged a 24-hour hunger strike outside a Los Angeles Walmart May 27 to protest the corporation’s retaliation against
