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"Master Lock is profitable, but is ready to abandon the community for the profits of a wealthy few.”

After seven months, the workers of Storm King Art Center, in New York’s Hudson Valley, have successfully organized.

This marks the first time Starbucks has settled with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of violating labor law in connection with the union campaign.

Though architects have long been seen as privileged creative professionals, they are finding themselves in increasingly de-skilled and exploitative work environments. It’s no wonder that they’re starting to unionize.

If a strike does come, it would be the largest against a single employer in America’s history, as UPS (UPS) is the largest unionized employer in the private sector.

Corrupt employers try scams to shortchange, intimidate or retaliate against employees but a restaurant’s attempt to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace “sins” may be among the most shameless.

Statewide education funding is the barrier to the kind of schools we want, ones with small class sizes and more support and resources for students. We won’t achieve this kind of transformational change without an intervention at the state level. 

Successful union campaigns in the south could raise wages, reduce poverty, and spread democracy in the former Confederacy.

The bill would have prohibited both public and private sector employees from being required to either join a union or pay union dues as a condition of their employment.

Forced to continue working in hazardous conditions, New York City workers had to help themselves and each other during a sudden dangerous decline in air quality last week.