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.
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...”
After an all out effort by the labor movement, voters in Missouri rejected "right to work" legislation by a 2-1 margin. This reprised a labor victory from 40 years ago when voters rejected similar anti-worker legislation.
I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public sector unions by letting workers receive the benefits of representation without contributing toward the cost.
But I’ve got a unique vantage point: I work in the same building as the plaintiff.
Union organizers in states like Tennessee are hoping to change that. Since 2010, the number of union members in Tennessee has grown from 115,000 to 155,000. Still, only 5.7 percent of Tennessee workers are members of a union.How To Patrick Green, even one new member is a big deal. Green is a president of Local 1235, which is part of the Amalgamated Transit Union in Nashville, Tennessee. In the three years that he has been leading the union, the local’s membership rate went up by 36 percent, despite being in a right-to-work state.
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