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.
A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.
Death & Co.’s recent union drive could have made history. But the failed effort underscores the challenges that come with unionizing bar staff, even as restaurants, cafés and hotels see an uptick in labor organizing.
Costco workers in Norfolk, Virginia, recently unionized, defying the company’s reputation as one that cares about workers. In an interview, a Costco worker says he and his coworkers are tired of being treated with disrespect on the job.
The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.
Saving the planet isn't a matter of winning an argument. It’s about what trade unionists know only too well: power and money. And we know how to fight power and money.
Worker Power is a new political organization with deep roots in the work of UNITE HERE Local 11, the hospitality workers local in Southern California & Arizona. They are bringing union organizing tactics to door-knocking and political power building.
Hospitality workers enjoy unusual clout in Nevada, where the powerful Las Vegas culinary union is rallying members to tip close races.
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