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.
It’s too reductive to simply smear scabs as sellouts. It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.
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.
The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tenn., were fired.
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.
Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
Racism can be a workplace issue, even at Home Depot.
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.
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, the normal workweek would decrease to 15 hours. Why was he wrong?
Because the economy gained 3 million jobs in 2023, unions had to draw hundreds of thousands of new members just to hold their ground.
Two labor scholars argue that the balance of power between workers and employers, which has been tilted toward employers for nearly a half-century, is beginning to shift.
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