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Windmill Farms mushroom workers and UFW President Teresa Romero come to Seattle to share their struggle to fight exploitation and unionize.

The right to protest and just cause for discipline are fundamental principles that unions seek to protect. Recent arrests and suspensions of graduate workers at institutions across the United States highlight the importance of this right.

The typical compensation for CEOs of S&P 500 companies keeps climber higher — and outpacing the wages of average workers today.

Nearly 200 rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South gathered in Charlotte, NC on May 17 – 19 for the 2024 Southern Worker School.

World’s largest coffee chain agrees framework with Workers United as push to increase unionization continues apace

External and internal threats to the nation – real or perceived – always played a crucial role in the enabling of dictators and the establishment of authoritarian regimes.

The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.

A new report provides perhaps the best detail we have so far on the economic and social consequences of neo-liberal economic policies in America. 

Within unions — spaces once largely dominated by white men — leaders say they are pushing women of all races and men of color to take on leadership roles and incentivizing women to join previously male-dominated industries.

A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.