The UAW Members United slate won three regional director positions and could eventually win the other four top officer positions it contested, including the presidency.
Paul Schrade, 1924 - 2022, devoted his life to building an America and a California that enjoyed broadly shared prosperity and racial egalitarianism. It’s that for which he should be remembered.
Adjunct faculty at the New School in New York City enter their second week of a strike. The university advertises itself as socially conscious but has not raised adjunct pay since 2018, resulting in an effective 18% pay cut adjusted for inflation.
Workers at the only ‘big four’ publisher to have a union authorize indefinite strike over low wages and diversity
The United Auto Workers and climate groups join together to push the USPS to buy electric postal vehicles to replace their old, gas-guzzling fleet.
After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.
“This is the single biggest new union filing in any industry, definitely this year if not this decade,” said UC Berkeley student researcher Tanzil Chowdhury. “Seventeen thousand new workers just joined the labor movement, which is historic.”
We know the union-busters' playbook. But the players and their reach are less well known.
The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide.
From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.
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