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While the Trump administration’s attacks on workers and unions continue to escalate, some states are stepping in to shore up and expand workers’ rights and protections.

The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

The Trump administration has quietly terminated collective bargaining agreements at the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Services; the Coast Guard;...

Over-reliance on outside funding threatens organizations’ long-term stability. Veteran labor organizer, Keith Kelleher, proposes for member-driven “community unions” as a sustainable alternative.

Union leaders say more than 3,000 members went on strike because the agreement offered by the aerospace manufacturing company doesn’t equally benefit all employees.

More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June.

International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs.

A new law signed by Gov. Dan McKee has made Rhode Island the first state to explicitly protect graduate student workers’ right to unionize if the National Labor Relations Board declines to do so.

The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

My book is quenching the throats of those who are sick of seeing the wealthy and powerful credited with everything good in the county and the working families castigated for their backwardness by the privileged members of both political parties.