Capital flight is playing a major role in the UAW negotiations, with U.S. plants at risk of losing work to Mexico being used as leverage.
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Artificial Intelligence Emerges as a Union-Buster
How one employer used AI against workers even when the technology fell short
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A Labor Day Like No Other
With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.
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Union and Queer
The growing solidarity between labor and the LGBTQ+ community
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Biden Administration Seeks to Expand Overtime Pay to Millions of U.S. Workers
If you earn less than $55,000 a year and work more than 40 hours a week, you could be eligible for time and a half.
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UAW Brokers a Tentative Agreement With GM Battery Maker Ultium Cells
While the agreement gives Ultium Cells workers a raise of more than 20 percent, membership overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike of the Big Three automakers after September 14.
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Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead
A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.
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The Conflicted Analysis of What an Auto Workers Strike Would ‘Cost’
General Motors and Ford are clients of Anderson Economic Group, which released a study about a potential strike’s cost to ‘the economy.’
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What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
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Striking Workers Face Another Opponent: U.S. Labor Laws
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
