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Union-backed pledge urges fast food employers to protect workers’ rights as immigration raids fuel fear and walkouts

Superstar athletes are close to American royalty, but they still have to fight like other workers for fair pay.

This union-busting "religious exemption" move was abruptly announced on the faculty’s 234th day of working without a contract, following the administration’s prolonged stalling of contract negotiations and hiring of the notorious union-busting firm.

A rare united general strike has shaken Portugal’s right-wing government, placing labour rights, precarity and collective power at the centre of national politics.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to ratify their first union contract last week, securing pay bumps, job protections and a rare win for the United Auto Workers union in the South.

No matter how you slice the demographics, aside from Democratic and Republican Party operatives, a new working-class political party independent of the Democrats and Republicans is really popular.

If the labor movement hopes to survive, it must find ways to organize in the private sector at scale. The UAW’s national push to organize higher ed, and its recent union drives at Volkswagen and Mercedes, offer potential guidance on the way forward.

After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protecti

A losing bet for working people.

The Chamber of Deputies is weighing a labour bill that would increase work hours, cut severance pay and ease firings.