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Topic: Unionization

Overworked health care workers wearing protective face masks very sad sitting on the stairs (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Resident physicians unionize in Calif.

Sarah Kwon - KFF Health News
Starbucks cup of coffee (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Starbucks workers score more union wins

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
Staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, test patients at a new COVID-19 testing clinic at East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, April 17, 2020. (Louise Kennerley/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)

Are you an expendable worker?

Bob Hennelly
A cart full of snacks sits near a mini-kitchen in a Google Kirkland building in Kirkland, Washington. More than 350 employees work in the Kirkland facility, which includes amenities such as a climbing wall, gym and soda fountain, and consolidates several offices throughout Kirkland. / Clarissa Redwine, 29, shows union buttons while posing for a portrait in Brooklyn, NY. Redwine and her former colleague, Taylor Moore, said they were fired from Kickstarter after starting to organize an effort to unionize, which would have been a first for a tech company of that stature. / Facebook employees play video games inside an arcade at the company's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. (Yana Paskova/Stephen Brashear/Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

Tech workers are waking up

Nicole Karlis
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Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male-dominated culture. CEO Sundar Pichai spelled out the concessions in an email sent Thursday, Nov. 8, to Google employees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

How employers thwart unions

Nicole Karlis
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Uber's $60M propaganda push

Nicole Karlis
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Colorado: How to transition from coal

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
Google employees stage a walkout on November 1, 2018, in New York, over sexual harassment. (Getty/Bryan R. Smith)

Video game workers walk out

Nicole Karlis, Matthew Smith
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Google employees hold up signs during a walkout rally at Harry Bridges Plaza, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in San Francisco. (AP/Eric Risberg)

Silicon Valley's growing socialist tide

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer

Craft beer poised for a labor movement

Nicole Karlis
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer (Eyewear Publishing/Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

How Silicon Valley undermines democracy

Robert R. Raymond - Truthout
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer; Steve Jobs (Eyewear Publishing/Getty/ Justin Sullivan)

Why tech is full of bootlickers

Keith A. Spencer
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Argentina midfielder Matias Vargas, controls the ball between Guatemala midfielder Frank De Leon and defender Cristian Jimenez during the second half of an international friendly soccer match, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Guatemala soccer team goes on strike

Jeff Abbott - In These Times
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Historic first for teachers in Chicago

Jeff Schuhrke - In These Times
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LA Times union ends anti-labor saga

Kari Lydersen - In These Times
(AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

The biggest labor stories of 2017

Shaun Richman - In These Times
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Unionization leads to Gothamist closing

Matthew Rozsa
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Silicon Valley unionizing

Matthew Rozsa
Natasha Raheja (Todd Wiillamson/invision/ap)

"I have been radicalized"

Elias Isquith

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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