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Despite aggressive anti-union climates, union membership grew in a number of southern states last year. We offer three articles on this trend: one on the south generally, one on Virginia and one on Texas.

A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.

“While working Americans struggle to put food on the table, Trump has found another way to cut costs for the ultra-wealthy,” said one House Democrat. “Same story, different day.”

An interrogation of organized labor’s lily white and non-southern based ideal of who and what constitutes “American Labor’s” past and present

The lack of antitrust action has destroyed an iconic Wisconsin industry and the jobs of its packinghouse workers. The end of Cargill is a canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy.

This proposed NDA is another attempt by the administration to purge the civil service of nonpartisan career employees and replace them with loyalists who won’t speak out against waste, fraud, and abuse.

After failing to gut a bill that legalized collective bargaining for state and local government workers, she opted to veto it.

Late last month, WoTC employees from the Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their intention to form a union, giving the company until May 1 to recognise it voluntarily. Neither Hasbro nor Wizards of the Coast did so.

For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers