The ProPublica Guild walked out for a one-day Unfair Labor Practice strike on April 8. With 99% of members voting, 92% voted to authorize strikes unless management agrees to a fair contract. Union President John Schleuss explains the issues at stake.
Unionized journalists at Politico won a landmark arbitration demonstrating how collective bargaining agreements protect workers from unethical AI in the workplace.
Worker-led and initiated organizing is certainly positive, as labor writer Eric Blanc points, but this emphasis is one piece of a much larger analytical framework for success in organizing.
Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.
While locked in a contentious battle over tech staffers unionizing, Times management’s counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the union.
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