Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but U.S. unions have been slow to act.
Strikes by autoworkers, actors and writers brought wins in 2023, but analysts worry labor laws could undo progress. Worker advocates say what is badly needed is for other unions, helped by the AFL-CIO, also to launch big, ambitious organizing drives.
Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.
The bill would have prohibited both public and private sector employees from being required to either join a union or pay union dues as a condition of their employment.
The Red Scare and the fall of the IWW. A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.
A number of moderate Democrats have remained silent on whether they support Julie Su’s nomination for labor secretary.
Republicans in Congress have already filed bills to undermine labor rights, eliminate the agency that oversees workplace safety, and roll back wage protections.
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As the economy opened up to women a half century ago, one in three working women was an office employee. As the clerical workforce grew by leaps and bounds, so did a sense of injustice among the women, leading to the founding of the 9 to 5 Movement.
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