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World’s largest coffee chain agrees framework with Workers United as push to increase unionization continues apace

External and internal threats to the nation – real or perceived – always played a crucial role in the enabling of dictators and the establishment of authoritarian regimes.

The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.

A new report provides perhaps the best detail we have so far on the economic and social consequences of neo-liberal economic policies in America. 

Within unions — spaces once largely dominated by white men — leaders say they are pushing women of all races and men of color to take on leadership roles and incentivizing women to join previously male-dominated industries.

A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.

Rather than using traditional organizing committee structures, the UAW relied heavily on digital meetings, a light staff approach from the international union, and getting workers to sign union cards via QR codes. It was a gamble but worth it.

Are today’s Southern workers about to change all that?

'Without enforcement, worker protections exist in name only. Companies should think twice before committing violations against their employees,' said Stuart Appelbaum, president of RWDSU.

How a childcare worker and mom living and working in Minnesota’s Iron Range would like to see the industry better support workers and children alike.