Category: Retail

July 13, 2015 By LaborPress The Service Employees International Union’s efforts to organize America’s fast-food workers are complicated by that the overwhelming majority of them, including more than 700,000 McDonald’s

July 10, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco  New York, NY – Workers at the trouble-plagued Pure Food And Wine restaurant on Irving Place in Manhattan found themselves in a very familiar spot this

July 8, 2015 By Stephanie West New York, NY – Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced that his office  reached a settlement with Per Se, a Manhattan fine-dining establishment, for failing to

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