The union’s organizing summit in North Carolina was part of its $200 million investment to mobilize working people to vote ahead of the 2024 election.
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Massachusetts Ballot Measure Criticized for Creating Gig Worker ‘Company Unions’
Uber and Lyft are not opposing Question 3, which would give some bargaining rights to drivers but keep them as independent contractors without full labor protections.
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Amazon Delivery Drivers Sign Union Cards
The e-commerce giant has been ruled a joint employer with its delivery service providers, and now workers are seeking to organize with the Teamsters.
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How to Respond to a Blackmailing CEO
U.S. Steel’s David Burritt threatens to flatten Pittsburgh. Where’s the (Democratic) indignation?
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Workers Say Plant Eligible for $2 Billion in Public Funds Is Union-Busting
Eos’s Pittsburgh-area battery plant got subsidies aimed at ‘good clean jobs.’ Its workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing.
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The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024
Growing among professional workers, but still stuck when it comes to organizing nearly everybody else
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How Much Will the CHIPS Act Help the Workers Who Make Them?
The Commerce Department’s standards don’t require companies receiving billions in public funds to allow their workers to unionize.
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A Landmark Federal Ruling Against Union Busting Has Boosted Organizing
Union elections are up in the year since the labor board created new penalties for law-breaking employers. But an appeal could reverse the decision.
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How Tim Walz Saved Workers’ Lives and Limbs
The Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee has won extraordinary advances in worker safety in Minnesota.
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Shawn Fain Explicates ‘Scab’
And other observations by the UAW’s president