Indigenous peoples are often among the workers most discriminated against and in the most precarious jobs, but they have an ally in the trade union world to help defend their rights and improve their social and working conditions.
Legislation gives incentives to companies to manufacture electric vehicles without protections for workers, according to autoworkers union head Shawn Fain.
Workers are suffering the impacts of climate change in myriad ways. Who is at increased risk, and what can be done to reduce suffering?
One thing is clear from the Teamsters’ recent tentative agreement for UPS workers: thanks to members’ organizing, it is far and away the best contract ever negotiated at the company. The problems UPS workers will have to solve now are good problems.
Appalachians built their identities around an industry that’s nearly dead. Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s new documentary film King Coal asks: What happens when the king dies and there’s no heir apparent?
A New York City organizer said that "we're out here using the visibility we have to help Starbucks customers and people that like the company know that the company is preventing the workers from fighting for better pay and working conditions."
UE has called for a shift to zero-emissions locomotives. The union also supports public ownership (or nationalization) of the railway industry, arguing that the profit motive is a key barrier to vitally needed improvements.
About 11,000 city workers took to the picket lines on Tuesday in the first work stoppage in the country's second-largest city in more than 40 years.
This week, the UAW presented proposals to automakers in contract negotiations covering some 150,000 workers. Autoworkers want big raises, an end to tiers, and the right to strike over plant closures — and conditions appear favorable for them to win.
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