What are the checks and balances for Big Tech? What forces and people can keep them honest? The obvious answer is: their employees.
Even in Trump country, pro-union sentiment is rising. But can labor and its allies turn that sentiment into power?
A union can now be found guilty of violating the duty of fair representation (DFR) for losing track of a grievance or failing to promptly return a member’s phone calls about it.
Persistently large wealth inequality leaves many African-Americans--as well as Latinos and some parts of the Asian-American communities--in a very precarious economic situation and poorly prepared for retirement.
Unions are taking a stand to protect TPS holders with the message that immigrant rights are worker rights.
Tech has resisted unionization for decades — will that change?
A fresh round of lawsuits paid for by labor opponents pick up where the Supreme Court left off when it blocked a key source of funding.
Non-white workers build more wealth as union members
Job tenure, benefits create access to saving and investment
The problem facing working people in the U.S. is not just lack of jobs, but lack of good jobs. UE's Director of Communications takes a look at what kinds of policies produce good jobs, UE's history of fighting for good jobs and a democratic economy,
U.S. workers have not given up on unions-a survey of the workforce found interest in joining unions to be at a four-decade high. But few workers who don’t belong to unions will get to join one, since fewer than 1% will experience an organizing drive.
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