Labor
Unions Demand More than Equitable Pay
Unions resist managers who see their job as monitoring employees to catch them doing something wrong.
How Joe Biden Can Help Workers Without Congress
Biden can require that federal contracts go only to companies that pledge to remain neutral in efforts to unionize.
Trench Warfare in California Hospitals
These hospital strikes are the workers’ fightback; they represent a sort of trench warfare, front lines in a war of attrition, with Californians’ lives and livelihoods at stake.
Be Brave and Take Risks
An independent union relying almost entirely on volunteer organizers beat one of the world’s biggest and most fiercely anti-union companies.
Organized Labor Helping Workers Strike
U.S. workers who have been pummeled by neoliberal austerity and assaults on organized labor are fighting back.
Kentucky Republican Legislature Winning War Against Workers
The GOP's hard right agenda is also playing out in Republican-majority state houses with attack after attack against the rights, livelihoods and well-being of working people, women and minorities.
USW Union Makes a Global Stand
Tom Conway: Longtime union member knows how important it is for working people to band together—even across international borders—to fight for justice.
Battling Amazon in Alabama
Mark Friedman: Amazon has spent millions on union-busting consultants and lawyers. They barrage workers with anti-union emails, texts, and letters sent to their homes.
True Colors
Berry Craig: Scores of union members from coast to coast who have donated about $300,000 to help their Kentucky union brothers and sisters who were among the victims of deadly tornadoes that ravaged western and south central Kentucky.
Starbucks Workers Speak about Unionization
Buddy Bell: “If you’re working 40 hours a week, on your feet, literally running around, you shouldn’t have to have another job.
How Union Drives in Mexico Help All Workers
Tom Conway: To sustain the kind of cross-border solidarity pivotal in these cases, the USW regularly sends delegations to Lázaro Cárdenas.
Globalization, Technological Change, Future Jobs
Robert Reich: Many Americans bear the consequences of decisions over globalization and technological change without knowing it.
You Can't Sugarcoat Hershey’s Union-Busting Tactics
Sonali Kolhatkar: Hershey factory workers in Virginia are sick of company abuses and are voting to join a union. But their union-busting employer has other plans.
Union Miners Save Company, Get Shaft
Berry Craig: "We want Warrior Met to be successful. But they can be successful and fair to its workers and communities at the same time.”
How Young Workers Are Being Exploited in the COVID-19 Economy
Tom Conway: Lawmakers not only sold out teen workers, they tried to put a positive spin on it by renaming the bureau to the Bureau of Youth Employment.
Could Tech Startups Become Community-Owned Co-Ops?
April M. Short: The new “exit to community” movement is experimenting with alternatives to the go-to model for startups.
Fight for $20 and a Union: Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake?
Martin Bennett: Soaring inequality in the Golden State, rising costs of living, and a vast low-wage service sector are the story behind the higher wage movement.
Why Is the Fed About to Shaft American Workers?
Robert Reich: There’s no “wage-price spiral,” either (even though Fed chief Jerome Powell has expressed concern about wage hikes pushing up prices).
California Taking High Road to Good Jobs?
Back in California, Yee and Kalra said they’ve yet to have a company publicly declare support for AB 1192, though some are privately intrigued
How Can Unions Help Salvage Democracy?
Andrew Moss: Change in the union dynamic helped transform labor relations and politics in Los Angeles – indeed, in California as a whole.
Supersizing Fast Food Worker Bargaining Power in California
Bobbi Murray: Fast food workers in Los Angeles County, who are disproportionately nonwhite women, make on average less than $26,000 a year.
Sideline the Filibuster
Berry Craig: It’s no coincidence that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is clinging like grim death to the filibuster to derail the PRO Act and to stall legislation that would override GOP-sponsored state laws that deliberately make it harder for people of color to vote.
Why So Many Striketober Protests?
Derek Lewis: “Striketober” persists because of the inherent contradiction between worker and boss, oppressed and oppressor.
Workers Strike to Demand Justice and Better Lives
Tom Conway: Solidarity brings working people together to fight for justice and better lives. It anchors workers in place during some of the darkest days.