Workers—organized, militant and backed by a contract—can reveal what the fair-trade label often hides.
If the shutdown resumes, we urge federal workers to stay away from work and their allies to occupy airports on 2/16.
A national growers’ lobby has sued the U.S. Department of Labor to freeze the wages of H-2A workers at a level barely above minimum wage.
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This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?
Amazon workers announce the launch of a union push in response to working conditions as company says it does not recognize allegations
Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?
Continuing our dependence on unaccountable corporations, without the ability to enforce job guarantees, making competitiveness the only test of worthwhile activity, looking to ‘better’ free trade agreements, are dead ends -- death by a thousand cuts.
The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract.
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
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