Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the U.S., and is a “right-to-work” state with only 4 percent of its workers in unions. But since July 13, Highway 80 near Jackson has been lined by chanting picketers. They’re on strike at JTRAN
Growing divide across US as membership increasing – and wages higher – in states that protect workers’ rights.
Trade-offs between the human right to work and the human right to a healthy environment need to be avoided when applying "just transition" logic.
Republican lawmakers have passed new laws on union elections for companies that receive state incentives.
Michigan became the first state in decades to repeal its right-to-work laws, which stifle workers by making it harder to collectively bargain for their wages, benefits and working conditions.
Should the UAW's southern organizing drive succeed, then its 2023 work stoppage will stand with the great strikes of 1937 and 1946 as a social and political achievement of epic proportions.
From Florida to Alaska, workers are facing legal efforts to weaken their power by targeting union certification and dues.
Michigan’s repeal of its “right-to-work” law could be a huge boon to labor — not because a flood of new members will instantly join unions, but because the entire country is hearing the message that the state will not tolerate flagrant union busting.
A newly Democratic state government votes to restore some democracy in the workplace.
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