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The announcement comes almost two years after the fund was touted as a major win in the 2023 strike-ending contract and includes provisions for background actors, stunt riggers and stand-ins.

In preparing to strike, United Teachers Los Angeles learned how to build broad backing for common-good goals and prepare for nonviolent action to achieve them — lessons that can be used in the fight against rising authoritarianism.

In 1970, US postal workers won collective bargaining rights with an illegal strike. If lawsuits to stop Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce fail, that kind of militancy may be the only way for federal workers to retain their own union rights.

Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Strike threat looms.

Judge says coffee giant has no standing in appeal of NLRB finding that it fired two workers for trying to unionize