“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”
A building in Hoyo de Puerco in August. The encampment was recently demolished.Pedro Farias-Nardi Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and…
Baristas in Buffalo Just Formed the First Starbucks Union in the United States
Joshua Bessex/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a watershed moment for the recent wave of pandemic-inspired labor organizing, workers at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, voted today to form the coffee chain’s first union in the United States. Despite months…
Fast Food Companies Have One Easy Trick for Avoiding Liability for Sexual Harassment. Now, Workers Are Walking Out.
Demonstrators march to McDonald’s headquarters on October 26, 2021, to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment.Scott Olson/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.L.H. worked for McDonald’s—or so she thought. The 14-year-old put on her McDonald’s uniform before her shifts, handed McDonald’s…
Work Is So Bad That People Are Quitting in Droves. We Should See That as a Good Thing.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Twice in the last year, a Walmart employee has quit via intercom. Last month in Louisiana, Beth McGrath took to the speaker to announce “Beth from electronics” was going to “quit” because the company treats…
An Instagram Account Helped Galvanize Hollywood’s Blue-Collar Workers Like Never Before
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Terry Dresbach, a costume designer and longstanding member of IATSE Local 892, has spent three decades working in what she considers to be an abusive system. Makeup artists, set builders, and camera operators—the…
Hollywood Producers and Union Leaders Reach Deal They Hope Will Avert a Strike on Monday
A poster advocating union solidarity hangs this month from an office building in Burbank, California, housing IATSE Local 705.Chris Pizzello/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Union leaders and Hollywood producers have reached an agreement that they hope will avert a strike that…