This is the first strike at East Coast ports since 1977. About 45,000 workers have walked off the job.
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US workers in general are finding themselves in an increasingly precarious position.
Union voters are particularly significant in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada, three swing states where the share of voters who belong to unions is above average.
Both sides took this marriage for granted until Southern Democrats, concerned that labor unions would organize Black workers across the South, joined pro-business Republican colleagues in Congress.
Some of the most essential but least protected workers in a $200 billion industry want to ensure that AI won’t do away with their jobs.
It’s not certain that the ruling will make it harder for fired union organizers to get their jobs back, a labor law professor explains.
The loss in Alabama doesn’t mean the UAW is done winning in the South.
Biden is arguably the most pro-union occupant of the White House since the New Deal.
The Mercedes auto workers will vote on union membership in mid-May.
Despite making similar efforts for decades, the UAW union had never before managed to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in a Southern state like Tennessee.
The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tennessee, were fired.
Despite intermittent efforts over the past three decades, the UAW union has been unable to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in states such as Alabama and Tennessee.
On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions, sparking America’s labor movement. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.
Because the economy gained 3 million jobs in 2023, unions had to draw hundreds of thousands of new members just to hold their ground.
Wooing those workers will be expensive and require a lot of creativity, since many of them are employed in ‘right-to-work’ states.
Rank-and-file union members employed by the automakers have to ratify the new contracts before they become official.
A memorial at the site of the 1911 fire remembers those who died; a cadre of young Jewish women helped push for change in the wake of the tragedy.
Beyond higher wages and improved benefits, the terms of the Kaiser settlement would ensure better staffing, which the unions have argued is critical for providing quality patient care.
Workers are objecting to staffing levels they say endanger patient care and are refusing their employer’s offer that includes raises that they say are too low due to inflation.
History suggests that there’s risk of overplaying one’s hand when new technology is lurking.
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