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Ford Motor Company announced that they would be building a new LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. “Because of the foresight of collective bargaining, the UAW will be able to organize this new facility using a card check to prove majority interest.”

If the effort to organize the Buffalo facility succeeds, it would become Tesla’s first unionized workplace. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed opposition to unions in the past.

“The US labor movement is largely unprepared for—if not downright skittish about—taking up the question of how to contest a fundamental assault on democracy.”

The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Union Kitchen last fall, detailing 26 violations of labor laws protecting unionizing workers.

The call from congressional lawmakers comes amid a surge in child labor violations—and as Republican state lawmakers seek to roll back over a century of child labor protections.

The lack of a labor perspective in the reporting out of industrial accidents leaves the public in the dark about just how dangerous and stressful railroading has become as Wall Street has increasingly put the squeeze on the railroading workforce.

Since the 1980s, the nation had gone from close to 50 Class 1 railroads down to seven with monopoly power akin to 19th-century robber barons. Through their “precision scheduling railroading,” these monopolists are putting worker safety and the community well-being at risk.

Harvard Academic Workers-United Automobile Workers stated that it seeks to unionize the over 6,000 University’s non-tenure-track faculty.

Over decades, a boutique of consultants, industrial psychologists, and specialist lawyers--spending an estimated $340 million a year--has played a significant role in subduing the labor movement, and has helped keep U.S. unions pinned down to this day.

Glacier Northwest vs. Teamsters could drastically change how unions are able to strike. Here’s how Starbucks Workers United is preparing.