A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, ASU's Center for Work & Democracy, & Jacobin reveals that politicians with union backgrounds campaign more aggressively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them.
There’s anger in the land
Just like everyone has their own holiday traditions and celebrations, we have our individual differences across SMART. But no matter what those differences are, we are a union family.
Together, let’s stand united, all of us having each other’s backs.
Striking baristas are not merely up against the executives of a coffee store behemoth, but a broader constellation of corporate power fully networked into Starbucks’s top leadership.
The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally ended the right to collective bargaining for TSA’s transportation screening officers in a press release last week.
4,300 workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, vote on whether to be represented by the union CAUSE.
Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline.
Unions are filing more petitions to hold elections with the NLRB and winning them at higher rates, under a Biden NLRB committed to enforcing labor law. However, recent Supreme Court decisions will hurt worker organizing, as would a Trump NLRB.
After organizing a stewards network, engaging in strikes, and building multiracial solidarity, workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in central England are deciding whether to form a union. Results are expected on July 17.
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