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“We’re in a different world today, where management is all about the money and the company’s bottom line, but where’s the dignity of a person?”

The protest was one of 16 at major national airports on behalf of 20,000 airline-catering workers.

2,000 USW copper miners, on strike at 5 ASARCO plants in Texas and Arizona, have not been paid for over a month. Union members and the community have come together to donate food, ensuring every striker is able to have a Thanksgiving meal.

Eighteen states rang in 2019 with minimum wage increases — some that will ultimately rise as high as $15 an hour — and so far, opponents' dire predictions of job losses have not come true.

This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.

To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces.

While Indiana laws prohibit teachers from going on strike, similar laws have not deterred educators in other states from holding work stoppages.

Now Questions Arise about Acting President Rory Gamble

Over the course of nearly a month, the DC bus drivers strike has intensified: other groups, including a flight attendant union and local union musicians, have joined the picket line. 

One New York public employee union —the New York State Nurses Association—is advocating for the abolition of the Taylor Law's no-strike rule. Other unions recognize that labor needs offensive weapons. Yet most are ambivalent or opposed.