The federal government says new labour rules will reduce intervention in strikes, but they could weaken workers’ bargaining power.
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Rather than chasing dollars, gig workers are micro-entrepreneurs who perform a strict ‘mental audit’ of every single task to see if it’s worth their time.
The Ludlow strike was one of the most bitter and violent in U.S. labor history.
AI tools can now generate movie scenes, resurrect lost footage and replace entry-level jobs – forcing Hollywood to rethink creativity, labor and authorship.
As nurses in Pittsburgh and nationwide spotlight staffing shortages, better pay and workplace safety, labor negotiations have intensified. Here’s what’s at stake.
This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most American workers.
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
An estimated 8% of US doctors had joined a union in 2024, up from 5.7% a decade earlier.
Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.
Pro wrestling’s failed unionization effort – and Hogan’s alleged role in undermining that campaign – is part of a broader story about the erosion of labor’s power since the 1980s.
A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.
An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media helped the workers on strike to get their message out.
Its actions are in keeping with Project 2025, which questions whether any public-sector unions should exist.
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.
A pro-business National Labor Relations Board under President Trump could embolden Whole Foods and other companies to delay negotiations with unionized workers.
Thanks to a new ruling, reality TV contestants could begin to earn money and get treated better by production companies.
Restoring the defined-benefit pension plan the workers gave up in 2013 was a rallying cry. But the union didn’t get it back even though it did win a significant pay increase.
The agreement labor leaders and management reached will suspend the strike until at least Jan. 15, 2025. There will be more time for additional collective bargaining and negotiations.
The union averted a small-scale strike at a Ford factory, but tensions with Stellantis have not eased.
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