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.
Movements, Parties, Strategies, and the Nicaragua Debate
A broader appeal by Question 1 in Massachusetts could have resulted in a win for nurses and patients.
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says the midterm elections showed how unions are dismantling a broken system that expects workers to work harder and longer and produce more wealth than ever before—but take home the same or even less.
The documentary film Nae Pasaran pays tribute to the Scottish trade unionists working at the Rolls-Royce plant in East Kilbride in 1974 who refused to carry out repairs to Chilean air force jet engines, eventually rendering them obsolete.
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