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The deal is still pending a vote by the union membership and includes modest raises for nurses through 2028 and preserves their healthcare and retirement benefits.

Meidner’s core thesis is more relevant than ever: “All experience shows that influence and control is not enough. Ownership plays a decisive role.”

Why this endangers retirement savers and the economy

A look inside the athlete-finance industry, which resembles predatory lending—and worse.

The UAW’s 70-year-old culture cannot be changed in one election. Cultural change needs sustained attention and commitment; without it, we will return to a one-party union controlled by just a handful of leaders.

An open-ended strike at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California and Hawaii continued into the second week on Monday, with no resolution yet in sight.

A strike is one of the best forms of muscle we have, but pulling off any strike is hard, let alone a general one. Our task now is to build up our muscles for non-cooperation.

New York hospitals are ignoring striking nurses’ demands for patient and health care worker safety and respect and trying to weaken one of the city’s most important unions. Mayor Mamdani and his movement have a key role to play in helping nurses win.

ICE’s targeting of virtually anyone who is not white and English-speaking — including, ironically, Native Americans — exposes this agenda for what it is: a naked expression of white nationalism.

With 300,000 employees gone and collective-bargaining rights eliminated, the administration has hobbled organized labor. Did it also start a movement?