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Activision refused to pay on-the-clock employees for any time spent in negotiations

A Canadian Tradition Taken to New Extremes

“RIGHT-TO-WORK” IS ON the BALLOT.

As a Starbucks worker in Oklahoma City, I’m fighting together with our union to ensure that COVID safety is a top priority.

Staff at the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) in Ohio on October 27 voted overwhelmingly to unionize as the Columbus Museum of Art Workers United (CMAWU) under the aegis of AFSCME Ohio Council 8.

The university’s statement affirms it will honor Local 33’s petition for an official election via secret ballot while maintaining a commitment to academic supervisors’ freedom to express opinions on unionization.

What do we know about how strikes are measured and why workers strike?

Unions aren’t just vehicles for transforming society — they also transform lives, as workers and organizers learn how to build an organization that can overthrow the authoritarian dictatorship of the boss and create a beloved community.

Rail workers are preparing to vote down an agreement that narrowly averted a work stoppage in September.

Teamsters won their strike at America's largest wholesale food distributor with an old-fashioned militant tactic: the mass picket line. “It was old school—unions shutting the thing down,” said a UPS driver. “It’s a magical feeling, the solidarity and the power that comes with it; the connection that’s made by standing together shoulder to shoulder, holding the line."