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From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin

Workers at Whole Foods in Philadelphia have been organizing for over a year. They've teamed up with UFCW and filed papers to unionize with the NLRB.

Just released National Labor Relations Board data shows a large increase in U.S. union elections and wins, as a three year labor movement surge continues.

Unions need to plan a response now.

James Goodwin, the policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, explains what the “bleak” world of labor under Project 2025 would look like.

The National Labor Relations Board has taken a more forceful pro-labor stance as strikes and organizing efforts ramped up. Potential new leadership and a series of court decisions threaten those efforts.

Unions are filing more petitions to hold elections with the NLRB and winning them at higher rates, under a Biden NLRB committed to enforcing labor law. However, recent Supreme Court decisions will hurt worker organizing, as would a Trump NLRB.

A Department of Labor rule going into effect June 28 adds new protections for “worker self-advocacy” and hinders the ability of American employers to intimidate or retaliate