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Major League Baseball has paid $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers.

The settlement comes years after the American Federation of Government Employees filed a grievance against the Dept. of Veteran Affairs for carrying out mass firings in violation of the union's collective bargaining agreement.

ILO Voices offers first-person perspectives on the world of work. In this article, Cristina Carro speaks about the impact of the transition from coal mining to a new job.

Workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, have announced supermajority support for forming a union. Jacobin talked to two Grindr workers about their demands.

Hurried Line Speeds and Horrible Hours

SAG-AFTRA and WGA are joining forces with hotel workers, UPS drivers, teachers and others for solidarity marches

It is necessary to the success of working people to develop a consciousness of class solidarity among workers and the realization that their plight is the result of predatory capitalism in which the welfare of human beings matters little.

Texas is "an unsafe state [for workers] because enforcement has been dialed back, regulations have been dialed back," Puente said. "And when you're trying to encourage businesses to come to your state, this is not a good look."

The Starbucks case demonstrates that a large corporation can effectively bust a union with time, by dithering over details and exhausting legal appeals.

Officers—recently elected on promises of greater transparency and militancy, in the union’s first-ever direct election for top posts—established what could become a new tradition.