In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
As the world churns
If Trump wants to prove that he is really on the side of American workers, however, he’s going to have to do more than one cabinet nomination.
Liberal pundits have puzzled over increasing support for Trump by immigrants and people of color. To understand the trend, we should look to economic issues and the way institutions like unions and churches affect political socialization.
Children's book teaches role of unions, unity and struggle - just what we need for these times. Written by a labor attorney and author, for young readers aged 7-12, just in time for the holidays.
Race riots were a sadly persistent theme of American history. But this one was a bit different.
Changes would likely make it more difficult for workers to form unions and negotiate workplace improvements, but the labor movement may withstand those headwinds since many of the factors that have driven its growth remain in place, experts said.
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
What explains Kamala Harris’s poor numbers with voters who belong to unions? The decline in real wages for union members under Biden may have something to do with it.
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