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May 2028 is now only a year and a half away. Are unions getting in gear for a season of strikes and labor action around then, as contracts expire in manufacturing, education, logistics, grocery, and the building trades?

Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.

For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum. COSATU said the congress would be reconvened within one month, as required by its constitution.

New York City remains one of the most heavily unionized places in the country.

Nome is one of the most expensive towns in America. Six young women there are hoping to get a minimum wage initiative on the November ballot.

Director Mark Mori followed coffee chain workers’ struggle to unionize: ‘These young kids are so inspirational’

A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives. Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program.

It's not known how many undocumented workers were involved in the 9/11 cleanup, but advocates say it's somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people. The fear of being picked up by Immigration has added to the PTSD which most of the group suffer.

When Starbucks in Scottsboro, Alabama, voted “yes” for the union in 2022 – the town made infamous in the 1930s when an international campaign saved nine young Black workers from the gallows – there was no doubt that this campaign was here to stay.

After years of decline, union membership in the US increased by 411,000 members in 2025, the largest increase since 2008.