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UAW President Shawn Fain announced a deal with Ford. The contract gains are substantial.

GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.

Workers from coast to coast are preparing to stage an unfair labor practice strike in response to what they see as unfair bargaining from Kaiser to resolve the staffing shortage.

Labor historians said they could not recall an instance when a sitting president had joined an ongoing strike, even during the tenures of ardent pro-union presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

The Big 3 automakers have made record profits in recent years. Now, union workers are calling for big raises, an end to tiers, a shorter work week and a just transition.

The US’s air traffic control workforce is overstretched, which has led to a big rise in airplane “near misses.” The crisis has roots in Ronald Reagan’s crushing of the 1981 PATCO strike and in the neoliberal attack on public services he helped spear

With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.

In this op-ed, an intern for the Pittsburgh Union Progress talks about her experience at a strike paper.