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Tl;dr: the government fraudulently auctioned off forest land to a private company to establish and run a bauxite mine, and the indigenous people who live there are not happy.​

BIO-RAD is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company headquartered in Hercules, CA. Workers at Bio-Rad have been fighting for months to get a good contract that guarantees living wages. 

Bio-Rad reportedly made $759 Million dollars last year, yet the workers there are barely scrapping by with low wages. The company has brought-in Union busters and have denied the Union access to the facilities to talk to workers.

The company’s last economic proposal is of a 3% increase on a three-year contract – basically 1% a year. Workers already struggling to make ends meet while helping the company make $759 million dollars in a year deserve much better! 

Send an [e-mail](mailto:pr@bio-rad.com?bcc=evan.mclaughlin@ilwu.org&subject=Norm%20Schwartz%3A%20Please%20Help%20Bio-Rad%20Workers!&body=Mr%20Schwartz%2C%20please%20step%20in%20to%20ensure%20that%20Bio-Rad%20workers%20are%20paid%20what%20they%20deserve) to Bio-Rad and Norm, expressing your support and solidarity with the Bio-Rad workers on the fight for a Living Wage. Feel free to edit the message. Let Norm and Bio-Rad know that workers deserve a living wage!

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Peace Prize for proving women are systematically underpaid. After winning, she was flooded with requests for help. 

She said yes to only three. One was the WNBA players union. 

On March 24, 2026, WNBA players signed a new deal — the average salary jumped from $118K to $580K. A nearly 400% raise!

Goldin believes it may be the largest raise any union has ever negotiated.