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Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?

Sonali Kolhatkar

August 16, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

Digital communication is allowing American employees to unionize at large corporations. In conjunction with face-to-face organizing, and more positive perceptions of unions from the public, digital communication such as social media and text messaging has led to an increasing number of unions. The current pro-worker political climate and the transparency of poor working conditions through social media have also contributed to the rise in unionization.

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How employer benefits can ease burden on people caring for elderly loved ones

Jennifer Eberbach

June 02, 2022 |

Livingston Daily |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Michigan

Companies like Sanofi are beginning to partner with organizations like Bright Horizons to offer eldercare benefits to employees, like in-home adult care services. The benefit allows Bright Horizons to dispatch care workers to a person’s home and the company administering the benefit subsidizes the majority of the cost. Providing eldercare benefits reduces the burden on employees, allowing them to be more present at work. Since the pandemic, Sanofi has seen a 20% increase in the number of employees registering for the eldercare benefit program.

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The push toward a four-day workweek is gaining momentum

Montse Reyes

May 18, 2022 |

Prism |

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

April Franklin

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 a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy

Sydney Pereira

May 09, 2022 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Alliance Psychological Services of New York is a worker cooperative- meaning it is owned by those working there and everyone is a part of the decision-making process. This model allows workers to choose more sustainable practices and workloads. They also have the freedom to better care for their clients with practices like sliding-scale-based payment.

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Ejo Heza saving scheme primed to secure future of informal workers

John Mugisha

March 14, 2022 |

Rwanda News Agency |

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Response Location: Rwanda

A savings initiative is helping workers in Rwanda save up for their retirement years. The Evo Heza program helps create a security net for retirement, as well as disability, and is open to anyone: employees, contractors, and entrepreneurs.

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Appalachian Virginia Needs Workers. This Program Is Trying to Bring Them In.

Brian Carlton

March 01, 2022 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

A program is paying certain professionals to move to rural Virginia. In exchange for $12,000 paid toward student loan debt, people who take hard-to-fill jobs must commit to staying for two years and performing 50 hours of community service. The grants have gone to teachers and people who work in technology and computer science.

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South Africa Is Pioneering a Better World for Domestic Workers

Tolu Olasoji

February 10, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: South Africa

Domestic workers in South Africa fought for many worker protections by banding together and demanding change. The racial inequity of apartheid left many domestic workers unprotected and exploited. Now, short-term unemployment aid, minimum wages, and other legal protections have been implemented.

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Why one Ontario town moved to a four-day workweek

John Michael McGrath

January 14, 2022 |

TVO |

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Response Location: Canada, Zorra, Ontario

Local government staff members in Zorra can choose to opt-in for longer workdays four days a week in exchange for three-day weekends. The change allows for more flexibility, productivity, and employee satisfaction.

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Unionization could help home health care workers with wages, experts say

Eric D. Lawrence

October 19, 2021 |

Detroit Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

SEIU represents about 500,000 home care workers nationwide, offering union benefits and protections like individual health care, a retirement program, raises and better wages, additional training and access to personal protective equipment. For many — especially those working in Washington, California, New York and Illinois — unionization is a large part of the solution for home caregivers to receive representation and a living wage.

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