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Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

Jodi Hausen

August 22, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?

Sonali Kolhatkar

August 16, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

Digital communication is allowing American employees to unionize at large corporations. In conjunction with face-to-face organizing, and more positive perceptions of unions from the public, digital communication such as social media and text messaging has led to an increasing number of unions. The current pro-worker political climate and the transparency of poor working conditions through social media have also contributed to the rise in unionization.

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The Café That's Upending Capitalism

Mike De Socio

August 16, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Troy, New York

Cafe Euphoria in Troy, N.Y. operates on a cooperative model in which all employees are paid the same wage and are offered an ownership stake in the business. The company is founded on a social mission to create a safe space for trans and gender nonconforming people and promotes equity through a 3:1 sliding scale for its menu and thrift shop, with 94% of customers opting to pay the top-end price of the scale.

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The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists

Sam Dean

August 12, 2022 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Unit of Work, an organization backed by venture capital, helps unions organize and win contracts. Organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers forming unions within their own workplaces. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit of Work a monthly fee — like traditional union dues — to keep providing support.

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The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

Emily Nonko

August 09, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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SCAF is driving inclusion of sickle cell warriors in Nigeria's tech industry

Abdulwasiu Mujeeb

July 24, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

The Sickle Cell Aid Foundation teaches tech skills to those with sickle cell anemia to increase their employability and spearhead an inclusive tech industry. Since launching, the organization has trained and graduated 20 individuals with coding skills.

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United for LGBTQ Hotel Workers

Chris Rudisill

July 22, 2022 |

QNotes Carolinas |

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Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

Labor union UNITE HERE represents 300,000 working people in the U.S. and Canada across multiple industries including hotels, food service, manufacturing, and more. The union's Sleep with the Right People campaign aims to support LGBTQ+ hotel workers, who are historically discriminated against in the workplace.

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A Mentorship Programme Is Turning Young PWDs Into A Thriving Workforce

Nathaniel Bivan

July 22, 2022 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

The Peniel Foundation virtually connects people with disabilities with mentors to help them learn to achieve their goals, level up their career skills to access to better jobs and become financially independent. Since forming, the foundation has seen thousands join the program and go on to have great success in their careers and personal lives.

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The Starbucks union wave hits Kansas and Missouri

Mili Mansaray

June 30, 2022 |

The Kansas City Beacon |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

With help from national labor union Workers United, employees at Starbucks stores across the country are launching union campaigns in an effort to secure safer conditions and better pay. In all, 171 stores in 30 states have won union elections so far, and Workers United has filed to unionize at 302 stores in all.

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Here to Stay: How Spain's migrants self-organized to fight for their rights

Majo Siscar Banyuls Laura Herrero Garvín

June 23, 2022 |

The GroundTruth Project |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Spain

Mujeres Migrantes Diversas was founded by women working in domestic service and caregiving jobs and provides mutual support networks and services to migrant women in informal sectors. They provide food assistance, help finding safe shelter, workshops on gender and labor rights, Catalan language classes, and support with immigration procedures among other support services.

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