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But Republicans Won’t Let Them Have It

Prior to the introduction of an increased minimum wage in Ontario, the business community spread fear that unemployment would rise. Instead the rate has hit an 18-year low. Next time business cries wolf, workers should just pushback harder.

As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants, it’s urgent for worker centers and unions to organize to defend immigrant members.

Strikes have become a much weaker tool for unions, while management continues to lock out workers as a way to call the shots at the bargaining table.

A rarely used U.S. government data set shows that the rate of all private sector strikes arising from union contract negotiations has declined by over 60% since the 1990s.

The Trump administration already has been slowly dismantling worker protections, especially those enacted under the Obama administration.

The difference between these two systems of labor relations shows up in the different weight given to individual rights, such as freedom of speech, and collective rights, such as freedom of association.

The Workers Lab uses the tech-based incubator approach to organize for worker rights and justice.

We should all be rooting for high profits and bull markets, since those are the conditions that lead to the invisible hand delivering better conditions for workers. Yet for some reason, that hand is nowhere to be found at United Parcel Service (UPS)

For many black Americans, unions have been life-changing ladders to the middle class. Black workers organized in labor unions have better pay and fairer treatment. But the hard-fought gains of the black labor movement may be be under threat.