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Teamsters Local 210, which represents New York City-based SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity workers, pledges to work with other organizations to "ensure reproductive health care access for Teamster members who live in New York and those traveling here for care."

The union push comes as public opinion about organized labor is the most positive in decades. A Gallup poll last year found that 68% of Americans approve of unions, the highest share since 1965.

The Supreme Court’s attack on abortion rights will strengthen employers seeking to maintain their unilateral power over workers within and outside the workplace. Luckily, the labor movement knows that abortion rights are workers’ rights.

Three Georgia Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, and other efforts are afoot to organize lower-wage workers.

In a country whose last dictatorship ended in 1983, a politician saying he wishes he had a Gestapo has underscored the link between aggressive “business-friendly” politics and violation of the right to freedom of association.

With 1199SEIU being the largest union in New York City, it is not too surprising that both Chris Smalls and Anjelika Maldonado’s mothers were 1199 members.

Workers in Ithaca say closure represents pure opposition from Starbucks, whose CEO says he will "never embrace the union."

Frederick Douglass gave this speech in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. Some now give this speech the title, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

Amazon is posing as a friend to veterans who need jobs when they return home from military service — while mistreating those veterans just as brutally as any other Amazon worker.

Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.