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In the summer of 2023, RWDSU members in Ohio got involved in the “Vote No on Issue 1” campaign, engaging with fellow Ohioans to come out and vote NO on Issue 1 on Tuesday, August 8. In the latest attempt by Republican legislators to silence the vote of the people, this ballot referendum sought to amend the century old practice of amending the state constitution with a simple majority vote….
Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and President of the Jewish Labor Committee, and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) made the following statement…
By an overwhelming vote of 88% in favor of the union, workers at the Barnes & Noble Park Slope, Brooklyn store have voted to join the RWDSU…
Today, the New York Warehouse Worker Protection Act goes into effect. Originally sponsored by Senator Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Latoya Joyner, the law pulls the curtains on working conditions in warehouses by allowing workers to know their expected work quotas as well as their actual work speeds…
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