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The former Nintendo of America boss thinks companies need to ‘address’ and ‘embrace’ unions

In 1969, a rogue attorney for the National Labor Relations Board undermined a critical piece of labor law. Fifty years later, the Biden administration is trying to reverse the damage caused by that decision.

American workers are taking collective actions to address their pent-up demand for achieving a stronger voice and representation at work. This report suggests a need to re-evaluate labor laws and employers' responses to organizations.

On a combined picket line outside United and Children’s hospitals in St. Paul, nurses said the crisis facing their profession demands urgency and bold action to keep nurses from leaving the bedside.

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.

Over the course of the pandemic, the vast majority of essential workers were women. The vast majority of those who lost their jobs in the pandemic were women. And now the vast majority of those organizing their workplaces are women.

Here’s what happened when fake job applications went out to a fast-food brand with a social justice message.

Despite years of employer attacks, unions still have vast resources at their disposal. This moment of worker upsurge is the time to use those assets to fund aggressive organizing.

Former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar called the Austin Starbucks workers union victory "inspiring."

A zone of voicelessness within the workplace is hard to contain. Lack of voice in undemocratic workplaces radiates outward to erode voice in the purportedly democratic political realm.