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Saying that city officials have been unwilling to address unions’ concerns, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its support for an Adams administration effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan.

Ultimately, the Butch Lewis Act, enacted as part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, will stop cuts to the retirement benefits of 2 million workers and retirees across the country, according to the Biden administration.

Workers are using creative tactics to win protections against excessive heat in the workplace.

Virginia is seeing a significant and remarkable expansion of its small but wily labor movement. In a labor movement urgently in need of new union organizing experimentation it would certainly be of value to consider the situation in Virginia.

Frank Emspak, anti-war activist and labor leader, spent his life advancing workers’ rights.

Home health aides, retail salespersons, fast-food workers, and public school teachers are essential to the economy and society, yet their wages fall far short of the cost of living.

A surge of organizing could weaken some of the forces that have made organizing difficult in recent decades. It could inhibit some of the structural changes, start to alter the political factors, and counter the aggressiveness of employers.

In balloting for leadership of the union’s Retired Teachers chapter, the Retiree Advocate slate received 17,226 votes, or 63 percent of the total, while Unity, which is aligned with UFT President Michael Mulgrew, got 10,114 votes, according to unoffi

No strike agreements are almost ubiquitous in union contracts these days, according to labor studies professor Jeff Schuhrke at SUNY Empire State.

Some business leaders see “the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.” Biden’s efforts to regulate markets have led them to look past their misgivings about the Jan. 6th insurrection.