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Workers went on strike at Kellogg’s, Nabisco, John Deere, Columbia University and numerous hospitals. Will this surge of worker action and anger be a mere flash in the pan or will it be part of a longer-lasting phenomenon?

Unions aren’t just about strikes and politics—the stories the media covers. There’s a big story the media usually misses about unions: how, concretely, they improve workers’ lives.

The Kaiser Permanente partnership finds itself in crisis as 34,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers prepare to strike on Monday, in what would be the largest walkout in this fall’s strike wave.

The worker center movement definitely considers itself a part of the bigger-picture labor movement. Worker centers have to be a center of experimentation on how to improve working standards.

Mail-in ballots for the hotly contested battle to unionize 5,800 workers are due on Monday. Some experts are predicting a victory while others are unsure

Workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are pushing for a union – and experts say if they triumph, it could pave the way to organizing fulfillment centers in other states

Senator Bernie Sanders says the widespread suffering caused by the pandemic-induced economic crisis has made it “morally imperative” to increase the US’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.

If you're a blue-collar worker who cares primarily about bashing immigrants then Trump is your guy. But if you are a blue-collar worker who cares about your economic well-being and opportunities for your children Trump is not your friend.

Some labor historians say this new militancy resembles the 1930s, when a huge strike wave helped lead to landmark pro-labor legislation and one of the biggest bursts of unionization in American history.