The justices fail to understand that workers — almost every worker — is at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace than the average American.
The eminently reasonable demands of Chicago teachers for a safe return to work have been met with a lockout and media attacks. They deserve our solidarity.
With issues like pay, benefits, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum staffing levels, schedule flexibility, mental health, and workplace safety becoming increasingly urgent in the pandemic, women have emerged as union leaders as never before.
Workers at Cascade Behavioral Health walked out in August following an attack by a patient that injured 11 staff. The National Labor Relations Board concluded this was legal—possibly the first time it has condoned a safety strike in the health care.
The capitalist system doesn’t just drive wealth inequality—it is designed to exploit and undermine the working class and to protect the power and economic interests of the wealthy.
The workers laboring outside in this extraordinary heat are on the front lines of the climate crisis.
The pending rulemakings involve legal questions that are frequently tested in Dept. of Labor investigations and in class actions pitting plaintiff’s attorneys and unions against management: contractor status, joint employment and tipped wages.
Six workers were killed in a chicken plant in Gainesville, Ga. The community is demanding answers.
If CTU were to strike over reopening schools, it would be a safety strike.
Many workers are turning to unions as they say say employers and government systems that are meant to protect them have failed.
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