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This agreement will help give over 200,000 of the City’s essential human service workers the right to organize for the pay and benefits they deserve without fear of retaliation or punishment or interference from their employers.

The milestone comes some six months after a failed high-profile union bid by Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who sought to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

As IATSE members decide how to vote on a proposed contract a horrific accident highlights the issues at stake. But whatever the outcome, members appear to be emerging from the pandemic and from this contract battle with a greater sense of power.

Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group – but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort

The health insurance industry is spending big to halt efforts to expand Medicare benefits — and running false ads claiming Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are protecting seniors rather than privatizing Medicare.

Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.

The Biden American Family Plan, and its early child care and education provisions, would be a lifeline for working-class families struggling in today’s unequal economy.  It’s high time for the United States to make good on its family-first rhetoric

In New York City, the Municipal Labor Committee is not only helping to block statewide single-payer health care, it’s undermining retiree health care. It’s shortsighted and dangerous politics.

The group is pushing legislation that would give health plans — including those managed by labor unions — more leverage to haggle over the price of health care and eliminate certain anti-competitive practices.

The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide.