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Dan DiMaggio reviews the major contract expirations coming up in 2024, including 30,000 Boeing workers and 32,000 AT&T workers. Will we see more big strikes?

Workers approved the deals at GM, Ford, and Stellantis. The new contracts go further than many people thought possible.

Negotiations will take place in 2023 for some of the biggest contracts in the labor movement, including at UPS and the Big Three automakers.

Mental health should be a priority in the workplace.

Unions need to work with social agencies to set up confidential mental health services for members. Workers have been facing extra stress at work and they don't usually trust employer run programs.

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

“We’re not going to get a good trade deal until workers have more political power in all three countries.”

IUPAT has launched a national “Free Hugo” campaign, calling on ICE to release one of thei rmembers from detention so he can be with his family while his asylum petition is heard.

One big issue in May’s three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company’s offshoring of jobs.

Union President Laura Glading stepped down in October—under pressure from angry members, who were pushing for a special recall election. American Airlines announced in January that it had hired her as a consultant.