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.
The battle cry of democracy is heard far and wide
Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."
People are hungry for truth telling, but truth telling has a smaller audience because it’s not within people’s realm of comfort or familiarity. That’s how the Right came to dominate, by continuously telling their story. They didn't water it down.
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
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