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Proposals face uphill battle, but backers say they show what they stand for.

Starbucks boycott would aim to use consumer power to pressure company to negotiate its first union contract.

As wild as a 4-day workweek might sound, UAW leader Shawn Fain is pushing a concept that has captured the imagination of workers all over the world, thanks to widely publicized trials. Microsoft ran a month-long pilot in Japan with positive results.

What does it mean to have Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in office?

The labor movement has expanded into esports, starting with the League of Legends Championship Series Players Association (LCSPA).

WIRED interviewed AMCARE staff at 12 different Amazon facilities. They found that management pushed on-site medical representatives (OMRs) to keep Amazon workers on the job and away from doctors.

The US’s air traffic control workforce is overstretched, which has led to a big rise in airplane “near misses.” The crisis has roots in Ronald Reagan’s crushing of the 1981 PATCO strike and in the neoliberal attack on public services he helped spear

“After you are kicked around for long enough and you feel like you’ve done everything in your power to be a partner with an employer, at some point you’ve got to fight back. Workers are realizing their power because they have been pushed so far."

Since workers at a Buffalo Starbucks started the first successful campaign to form a union at a company-run store, experts say the chain’s aggressive union-busting is shining a harsh light on the shortcomings of the National Labor Relations Act.

The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.