The Game Makers Guild is the first wall-to-wall union seen at Activision Blizzard and the largest of this kind at a Microsoft-owned studio to date.
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Supreme Court sides with Starbucks, makes it harder for labor board to win court orders
The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks.
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Watchdog investigates UAW president, accuses union of being uncooperative
The monitor says the union has made employees and senior leaders available for interviews but hasn’t provided relevant documents in a timely manner.
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Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business
A battle is underway in California between a unit of the Wonderful Co. and the country’s biggest farmworker union over how a group of workers organized under a recently enacted labor law.
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Graduate workers’ union bemoans pace of negotiations with UMaine System
Six months into bargaining, administrators and the union have reached tentative agreements on just two of 22 contract issues.
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California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role
Earlier this month, the California character performers and the union organizing them, the Actors’ Equity Association, said they had filed a petition for union recognition.
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Disneyland performers file petition to form labor union
Most of the more than 35,000 workers at the Disneyland Resort, which includes the theme parks, already have unions.
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‘We are in a crisis,’ workers at Maine’s only youth prison tell the state
Educators, maintenance staff and supervisory staff at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland outlined their concerns and demands in a letter to the Department of Corrections.
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Service workers at Maine’s 7 community colleges say system is stalling negotiations
The union is demanding wage increases for the 165 employees currently working under a contract that expired in July 2023.
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Fidium parent company laying off nearly quarter of customer service staff in Maine
The cutting of 12 jobs at Consolidated Communications continues what union and congressional leaders have called a ‘troubling’ trend at Maine’s largest telecommunications company.