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Striking warehouse workers from Shaw’s Supermarkets stepped up their campaign yesterday with an action at State Street Bank, the third largest shareholder of Supervalu, Shaw’s parent company.

Retail workers are suing Sterling Jewelers, the nation's largest specialty retail jeweler.

A new coalition of labor and community organizations is fighting for equitable development in the Bronx.

Workers Picket Upper East Side Specialty Market

While it might be surprising to some that sweatshops still exist in the USA in 2009, low-income immigrant workers around the country are all too familiar with the grim reality of long hours, illegally low pay, and abuse from management.

In our last blog post, we had some bad news for tipped workers, as they were yet again left out of the federal minimum wage increase. For this blog post, the tune is a bit more upbeat.

While the federal minimum wage increased to $7.25 per hour last week, the minimum wage for tipped employees remains the same. Since 1991, the minimum hourly wage for tipped work has been just $2.13.

It is common practice for companies to misclassify employees in order to be exempt from paying overtime. Employers are required to pay time-and-a-half to employees who work over 40 hours per week.

Over 600 workers at a Rite Aid distribution center in Lancaster, California have been fighting for their basic rights as workers.

California settled a toxic dumping suit with Kmart and is now suing Target (San Francisco Business Times).