The reality of labor weakness and social media strength makes what organizers call an “air war” compelling. But if not accompanied by resources for worker organizing and leadership development, all the money in the world won't produce worker power.
The Campaign Workers Guild has seen a roughly 110 percent increase in the number of campaigns that have signed card check agreements with the union since late April, according to union leaders.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act, pending in the Senate, could compel employers to bargain with their unionized workers.
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence
The Rockstar Game Workers Union has members across the developer's UK offices.
Maximum Leverage drops readers directly onto the shop floor, arms locked with fellow hard-pressed workers, uniformed goon squads closing in fast, and never retreats.
A last-minute deal headed off a planned strike at Samsung, the Korean electronics giant. The unions have shown that a sustained campaign backed up by the willingness to strike can extract concessions, even from one of the world’s most powerful firms.
Late last month, WoTC employees from the Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their intention to form a union, giving the company until May 1 to recognise it voluntarily. Neither Hasbro nor Wizards of the Coast did so.
A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.
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