The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally ended the right to collective bargaining for TSA’s transportation screening officers in a press release last week.
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.
In a Monday memo, the Office of Personnel Management said allowing government employees to telework is a “management right” that lays outside of the bargaining table.
Teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied against a proposed bill in Utah that will ban public sector unions from collective bargaining. Lawmakers ignored workers and moved forward with their bill.
Women in unions are paid higher wages and experience smaller wage gaps than non-unionized women. Unionized women who work full time are typically paid 19% more than women who are not in a union, resulting in them making roughly $10,000 more a year.
Boeing was never cuddly, but old-timers remember a company led by engineers with an uncompromising focus on quality. In recent decades, leaders have shifted attention to stock buybacks and schemes to squeeze concessions out of workers and taxpayers.
In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together. In a joint announcement Starbucks and Workers United agreed “to begin discussions on a foundational framework designed to achieve…collective bargaining agreements.”
An outright crisis is emerging for public sector unions. Some fear that with the new union law in effect the working class in Florida faces a bleaker future.
Labor and community organizations who have been aligning for years are escalating their fights at the same time.
Since 2021, 483 Starbucks stores in 46 states that have filed to unionize; of those, 385 stores in 43 states have won union elections, a nearly 80% win rate. The company continues to fight with illegal and stall tactics but workers keep organizing.
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