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The tactics suggested by "union avoidance" consultants, such as “old-fashioned captive audience [speeches],” remain the same, with a slightly different twist to match the moment.

The popular narrative about worker shortages and layoffs is aimed at building a cultural consensus against workers and the labour movement, and is based on biased, partial, and contradictory definitions.

Teachers in England and Wales were among thousands of workers taking action during what was said to be the biggest strike day for a decade.

Employers are using heavy-handed tactics to prevent workers from organizing, and U.S. labor union density is falling as a result.

The newly formed Union of Southern Service Workers holds its first strike.

When kitchen workers at Twin Peaks in TN walked out, protesting a racist manager along with unfair firings and wage theft, they were joined by wait staff who had been abused by the same manager.

In the 1980s and 1990s, after we secured local contract language against delivery in the dark (“both inefficient and unsafe”), carriers in Portland would bring the mail back, instead of delivering in the dark.

South Korea’s spy agency has accused members of the country’s largest union of illegally contacting North Korean agents.

“When you think about gender perspectives, being a teacher or being a nurse, what they hope is that we care so much about our charges or our patients that we’re willing to accept the bare minimum.”

Peet’s Workers United received assistance from Starbucks Workers United organizers.