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In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together. In a joint announcement Starbucks and Workers United agreed “to begin discussions on a foundational framework designed to achieve…collective bargaining agreements.”

By devoting $40 million to its campaign to organize non-union auto plants, the UAW is challenging not just corporate America but also labor’s status quo.

The far right has a plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.

GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.

Fast-food workers compel McDonald’s and Starbucks to abandon a ballot measure that would have squelched both.

With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.

Even without Donald Trump on stage, in the first GOP debate, the treatment the crowd gave Trump’s critics made it vociferously clear - this is a MAGA Trump Party.

Last Thursday, the Supremes ruled against a union of cement-mixer drivers—but their very odd decision could have been lots worse for American workers.

Though the public thinks he’s too old to serve a second term, Joe Biden keeps getting older. What should the Democrats do?