That North Carolina has failed its labor force so comprehensively ever since the 1930s is a stain on our state’s moral character. As Robert Reich has observed, what is the point in having an economy unless most people benefit from it?
Wisconsin's elimination of collective bargaining rights sparked a nationwide attack on labor that fueled the rise of right-wing populism and helped elect Donald Trump.
Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
In Montana, union members from around the state came to the Capitol to pressure lawmakers into voting against the bill. However, a Right to Work bill continues forward in New Hampshire
Del. Lee Carter says “right to work” is rooted in racial segregation and has lost support among everyday Virginians. But statehouse Democrats are reluctant to back a repeal because they’ve been bombarded by anti-union messaging from business groups.
The company has also sent anti-union text messages to workers and posted anti-union banners in its facilities in the lead-up to a union election at its Bessemer, Alabama facility.
No Evil Foods created products like El Zapatista and Comrade Cluck, but workers say its conduct doesn’t live up to its leftist branding.
One of the most significant bills to strengthen workers’ abilities to organize in the past 80 years passed the House on Thursday, the latest sign of momentum for the labor movement.
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize-and many paid with their lives. The massacre helped keep unions out of the South at just the moment it was industrializing. Today the workforce remains predominantly non-union.
Organized labor hopes the huge Missouri win will help stop the spread of the anti-union laws. “I want people across the country to know that you don’t need to sell out,” Rashida Tlaib said. “You don’t have to change who you are to run for office...”
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