Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to ratify their first union contract last week, securing pay bumps, job protections and a rare win for the United Auto Workers union in the South.
No matter how you slice the demographics, aside from Democratic and Republican Party operatives, a new working-class political party independent of the Democrats and Republicans is really popular.
Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
Between October 2023 through November 2025, the California Agriculture Labor Relations Board has certified the United Farm Workers to represent hundreds of workers statewide, according to state records.
Under recently retired Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy, labor's efforts to grow the leadership and membership from the bottom up helped bring about successful organizing campaigns for local affiliates in the past few years.
About 560 Starbucks locations have voted for union representation since the first vote to unionize four years ago, according to the union Starbucks Workers United.
While Michigan has seen an uptick of union organizing petitions, new challenges and political strain are on the horizon, including budget cuts, unfair labor practices and new anti-labor laws.
In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.
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