A spate of acquisitions, including Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, marks a flashpoint among organizers looking to make inroads in a mostly nonunion industry.
Workers at a “high-incident” Starbucks in Eugene, Oregon, are often expected to manage in-store conflicts and crises on their own. They say they're unionizing in response to the company not training or compensating them well enough for the task.
Labor leader Tony Mazzocchi believed unions could inspire their members to engage in a broader political movement of working people. His Local 149 did just that in the 1950s — and in a suburban environment where no one thought it possible.
The new unit, which is organized by the NewsGuild, is now the largest unit of tech workers with bargaining rights in the country.
Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the South?
The labor movement has lost one of its greatest organizers. On February 15, 2022, Edward Kay—known as Eddie—passed away at the age of 89. He will be greatly missed.
The primary, leading aspect for change in the US labor movement should be recovering lost bargaining power through organizing the unorganized, including through cross-border campaigns.
Between 2019 and 2021, the overall percentage of U.S. union members stayed flat. But the percentage of workers ages 25-34 who are union members rose from 8.8% to 9.4%, or around 68,000 workers, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The dirty tricks that bosses play on workers will continue until there is a fundamental change in US Labor Law. Most fundamental would be the repeal of Taft - Hartley and corporate “personhood.” The law favors the powerful.
Curtis's beliefs in a cooperative society and bottom up organizing learned from Moses and Ella Baker and a life-time of organizing and struggle, have been embraced by many contemporary movements for social justice today.
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