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With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.

The United Auto Workers said on Sunday that a nationwide strike will begin before midnight. The move comes after the union and General Motors failed to agree on a new contract.

It’s one of the 20 largest workforces to unionize in the country this year.

Teen Vogue runs an op-ed column, No Class, dedicated to worker struggles and the American labor movement. This week's column focuses on the troubling working conditions at nail salons and the organizing efforts to change them.

The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.

Following fifteen months of tense negotiations in which the employers’ continually refused to provide reasonable proposals the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 cancelled contract negotiations.

Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, has struck a chord with activists calling for her to run for labor’s top job: president of the AFL-CIO

Organizers want to see the company reduce its carbon footprint, cancel contracts with fossil fuel companies, and stop lobbying for politicians who deny climate change.

Where should labor unions be? Labor unions should be where the workers are, and where the money is.

As is UAW practice, union leaders including Jones have been silent about bargaining goals, with no information trickled down to members.