John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about “your attendance.”
“The only way to make a change is to pressure these people into understanding that we aren’t … animals to control at their will.”
Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group – but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort
The roots of the modern US right lie in the California fields of the 1930s, where large growers ferociously resisted farmworker organizing. It’s a reminder that opposing working-class power has been central to the US right from the very beginning.
Tucker's strategy for psyching suckers
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The American Bar Association and corporate interests are trying to block a rule that would expose their anti-labor activities.
Unionizing animators at Floyd County Productions say the company has failed on multiple accounts to live up to its progressive values.
Unions need labor law reform through the PRO Act. But even if that bill remains off the table in the near future, Joe Biden can use executive orders immediately to roll back corporate union-busting like Amazon carried out in Bessemer, Alabama.
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