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Human resources associations & union busting law firms keep close track of changes to labor & employment law. While mostly anti-union, these organizations are good sources of information like this list of laws going into effect in 2024.

Last week, hundreds of health workers shut down the London HQ of Palantir to protest a tech company profiting off of Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.

Strikes by autoworkers, actors and writers brought wins in 2023, but analysts worry labor laws could undo progress. Worker advocates say what is badly needed is for other unions, helped by the AFL-CIO, also to launch big, ambitious organizing drives.

2023 was an explosive year for worker organizing. A decades-in-the-making reform victory at the UAW paved the way for historic contract victories at the Big Three automakers. LA teachers and service workers united around shared community demands.

A conversation with the former president of the clerical workers union at the University of Minnesota: "Solidarity for me is a profound concept that should guide your life and how you want to interact with others."

Donald Trump has pledged to revive an executive order known as Schedule F that would give him the power, if re-elected president, to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of government civil servants, a step toward autocracy.

From the picket lines to state houses to the White House, champions in the fight against inequality landed huge wins.

Bandcamp was meant to be an alternative to the corporate behemoths of music’s streaming age, giving a better deal to independent artists. But the company’s new owner, Songtradr, has suddenly laid off half its workers, putting Bandcamp’s future in jeo

"The mistake Tesla made was challenging the collective agreements that set sector-specific minimum wages in Sweden, a country where 70% of the population is unionized," said one political scientist.

Academics at Columbia College in Chicago are in a fierce dispute over cuts to courses and poor working conditions