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  • The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

    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

    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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  • A Mentorship Programme Is Turning Young PWDs Into A Thriving Workforce

    July 22, 2022 |

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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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  • United for LGBTQ Hotel Workers

    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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  • The Starbucks union wave hits Kansas and Missouri

    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

    June 23, 2022 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    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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  • The push toward a four-day workweek is gaining momentum

    May 18, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    4 Day Week Global offers workshops, cross-company mentorship, and assistance with tracking productivity and employee wellbeing to help companies implement shortened workweeks. The nonprofit has piloted its program with 38 companies so far, and organizations that have switched to a four-day schedule report increased productivity and improved work-life balance for workers.

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  • Several States Are Taking the Lead on Restoring Overtime Pay

    May 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Washington and California are improving access to overtime pay. Washington is using phased increases to the income threshold requirement over several years. And California mandates extra pay for over eight hours of daily work.

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  • Success coaches help workers with problems outside the workplace. That helps their employers, too

    May 11, 2022 |

    WXXI |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Businesses are partnering with the Employer Resource Network, which provides “success coaches” for employees. These coaches serve as in-house social workers, helping employees navigate issues like food insecurity, child care, and emergencies — all of which often contribute to employee retention issues. The coaches were introduced as a way to address retention and help support employees so they don’t feel as if they have no other choice but to leave their jobs when trouble arises. The Network originally started in Michigan, but has since expanded to 11 states and serves 200 employers.

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  • How the Ethical Fashion Movement Changed Policy

    May 03, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Civic engagement led to the passage of a bill that empowers and protects garment workers in California. Citizens were encouraged and taught how to mobilize and participate in the democratic process which eventually led to the successful outcome.

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