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Teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied against a proposed bill in Utah that will ban public sector unions from collective bargaining. Lawmakers ignored workers and moved forward with their bill.

Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.

Amazon Closes Its Operations in Quebec, Laying Off 1,700 Workers

A Brief History of the Controversial Program for Skilled Foreign Workers

Networks of U.S. union organizers are calling for an end to a system of apartheid in Israel and cessation of all armed conflict in the region.

One day after Donald Trump returned to office, a leading government labor union filed a lawsuit against his administration’s reclassification of thousands of federal workers as political hires.

The move follows a national trend of physicians unionizing around the country, as doctors increasingly look for solutions to burnout in a field now dominated by large health system employers.

Public interest groups and unions filed three lawsuits. Plaintiffs accuse Trump group of violating transparency law.

5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.

To keep up the offensive fight, defense may be necessary. Organized workers can pressure employers to deny entry to ICE agents who arrive without an arrest or search warrant—or at least restrict the search area only to what is listed in the document.