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  • Small ag feels growing pains: Lack of workers

    March 06, 2019 |

    Durango Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    In southeastern Colorado, the Good Food Collective is piloting new initiatives to help small-scale farmers fill the labor shortages. With grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, they’re looking at what others across the country have done to address this issue, like developing a workers cooperative where workers can have some security in an unstable field. For now, they’re figuring out what works for their region, which includes “gleaning” – using grant funding to pay for individuals to harvest food for food pantries.

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  • 'Dignity and respect': Dominican factory vows to never be a sweatshop

    February 14, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Dominican Republic, Villa Altagracia

    In the Dominican Republic, employees at the Alta Gracia factory are paid 2.5 times the national minimum wage, a salary that is widely unheard of in the garment factories that make t-shirts and sports merchandise for American consumers. While the business has sometimes struggled to maintain investors and turn a profit, the guarantee of a living wage has introduced much deserved financial stability in the lives of workers who are often relegated to substandard conditions and minimal wages.

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  • How the ProComp merit pay system led Denver teachers to the brink of a strike

    February 05, 2019 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    In 1999, Denver, with the backing of the teachers union, rolled out a merit pay pilot program. Twenty years later, the pay-for-performance system has teachers on the verge of a strike for higher pay. Chalkbeat explores the origin and efficacies of the approach.

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  • This tool helps you make sure your 401(k) is supporting gender equality

    November 13, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Gender Equality Funds is a tool that makes it possible for people to know if the mutual fund companies in their 401(k)’s are gender inclusive. The tools pulls data from 4,000 mutual funds companies and gives them a gender score. The aim is to empower people to invest their money in socially responsible funds. “I believe this is going to be a tsunami of capital shifting away from companies that are not responsive on gender equality.”

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  • Seattle is the leader in worker protection laws. What can Philly learn as it considers a ‘fair workweek'?

    October 15, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In an effort to achieve a true "fair work week," Philadelphia looks to Seattle's worker protection laws - which are among the best in the country. Seattle enforces a strict secure-scheduling policy, which ensures workers are compensated if an employer changes their schedule without fair warning.

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  • Chicago hotel workers join #MeToo, demand protections against sexual assault

    October 09, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Hotel workers and members of the union, Unite Here, successfully lobbied for a law that makes it mandatory for hotels in Chicago to provide a safety device, known as a panic button, to workers. The ordinance also includes a retaliation clause which forbids employers from firing women after reporting sexual abuse. ‘This is incredible.' Because like, we all had the same feeling like we've started something.”

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  • Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia

    October 01, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Worker co-ops, a business model that many people are not aware of, are gaining momentum in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Cooperative Alliance (PACA) has helped push more education and funding around co-ops to come to the city. Specifically, 20/20 is a program that invited 20 groups interested in working as co-ops to learn together. The co-op model has the potential to help immigrants, women, and people of color who are traditionally underrepresented in business.

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  • Berry Farmers Break Free From Big Agriculture

    August 29, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Lynden, Washington

    Many farmers in the United States toil under exploitative working conditions, enduring long hours, low pay, and exposure to dangerous chemicals; after taking their battle for better conditions to the legislature, a group of farmers have created a co-op so that they can own the land they work on. The co-op has generated a lot of interest and now produces around 200 boxes of organic produce every week.

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  • Sparking a Mini-Movement of Worker Cooperatives in Southeast L.A.

    August 28, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    COOP LA in Los Angeles is a commercial space featuring business commonly found across the city but with a distinct difference: they are all worker cooperatives. These cooperatives effectively create jobs and develop locally owned businesses as well as accomplish this without the neighborhood falling prey to gentrification.

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  • The right to disconnect: The new laws banning after-hours work emails

    August 14, 2018 |

    New Atlas |

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    Response Location: United States

    France, Italy, Germany, and now the U.S. are passing “anti-stress” laws, which make it illegal or harder for workers to receive emails after work. Research shows that when employees expect to be contacted after work through email, their levels of anxiety and stress go up. "I think this will lessen a lot of the anxiety that goes with having a job in the city and allow people to draw their own lines about when work ends."

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