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Big Union Win

Scott Jaschik Inside Higher Ed
The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling last week that could clear the way for much more unionization of faculty members at private colleges and universities.

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Labor's New Reality -- it's Easier to Raise Wages for 100,000 than to Unionize 4,000

Harold Meyerson Los Angeles Times
Unions historically have supported minimum wage and occupational safety laws that benefited all workers, not just their members. But they also have recently begun investing major resources in organizing drives more likely to yield new laws than new members. Some of these campaigns seek to organize workers who, rightly or wrongly, aren't even designated as employees or lack a common employer, such as domestic workers and cab drivers.

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Organizing The Organized Is Now Key To Union Survival

Steve Early CounterPunch
Virtually all labor organizations face the expanded challenge of recruiting and maintaining members in already unionized workplaces where the decision to provide financial support for the union has, for better or worse, become voluntary.

'Moral Week Of Action' Takes Off

Terrance Heath Campaign for America's Future
A “Moral Week of Action” demands that Republicans “repent and repeal” their public policy attacks on the human and civil rights of North Carolinians

Minority Union at Volkswagen, For Now

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
The brand new Local 42 has already begun signing up and swearing in members who work at the VW plant looking toward winning a majority.
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