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The new bargaining group will represent thousands of early-career scientists at the US National Institutes of Health.

“Solidarity is the cornerstone of the trade union movement and extends across national borders. Therefore, we are now taking the tools we have and using them to ensure collective agreements and fair working conditions.”

Honolulu police officers who worked during the pandemic are entitled to hazard pay, according to an arbitrator.

Strong and resilient health systems are indispensable to protecting the population from the negative impacts of climate change on their health.

The transition away from a carbon-based economy depends upon the ability of workers & their unions to take collective action & challenge the economic system according to new report from the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice.

Thousands of non-union auto workers are already organizing across the 10 foreign-owned transplants, including Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes, as well as in the electric vehicle sector at Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.

UAW, representing 400,000 in the US and over 580,000 retired workers, makes announcement as military operations resume

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took on gig work platforms. “We’re not against someone working [by] delivering food on a bike,” said Lula during a union event. “We’re against them not having rights."

Time to follow the containers, march inland and organize! Time to build a multi-union organizing project. Time to strategize and organize!" Read Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.

Laney Graduate School students have voted to unionize after years of advocacy, making Emory University the first private university to have a graduate-worker union in Georgia and the second in the South.