For labor unions across the Nordics — a region encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — the tussle with Tesla and Elon Musk, a vocal critic of unions, is existential.
Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
Pending cases could boost the potency of worker strikes, expand the scope of labor law protections, and make other changes that bolster worker and union power.
A split over the stewardship of the union’s high-profile president, Christian Smalls, has led a rival faction to file a lawsuit seeking an election.
This marks the first time Starbucks has settled with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of violating labor law in connection with the union campaign.
Alexis Rizzo was one of the first members of Starbucks Workers United; she was recently fired in retaliation, but her fight isn’t over yet.
With Glacier, eight justices sabotaged the most powerful weapon unions have: the strike.
For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.
Activists known as “salts” have been a key to recent successful organizing campaigns. And they say they’re just getting started.
By organizing today’s “unorganizable” Southern workers, the Union of Southern Service Workers seeks to follow in their footsteps of downtrodden workers excluded from the New Deal's National Labor Relations Act of 1935 who fought for recognition.
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