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The victory surrounds back wages and the dangerous work cleaners undertook during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“... organizing is the practice of identifying a future that you would like to have for yourself, for a community, for a global situation, and beginning the process of building an alliance with others towards that future.”

Since 2020, the Guild has grown faster than any other CWA sector or district, organizing more than 8,500 workers.

Unions are alarmed by the plan for the Federal Labor Relations Authority, saying it will give the president more power over the federal workforce.

While the Trump administration’s attacks on workers and unions continue to escalate, some states are stepping in to shore up and expand workers’ rights and protections.

The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

The Trump administration has quietly terminated collective bargaining agreements at the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Services; the Coast Guard;...

Over-reliance on outside funding threatens organizations’ long-term stability. Veteran labor organizer, Keith Kelleher, proposes for member-driven “community unions” as a sustainable alternative.

Union leaders say more than 3,000 members went on strike because the agreement offered by the aerospace manufacturing company doesn’t equally benefit all employees.

More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June.