A class action case charges that chicken farmers are so beholden to middlemen that they are effectively employees of the company.
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What Amazon and Starbucks Don’t Let Us Know
There are gaping holes in what the law requires employers to reveal about their campaigns to keep their workers from unionizing.
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By Helping Self-Organized Workers, Labor Can Save Itself
Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.
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What Amazon Will Do Next. What Unions Must Do Next.
The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.
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The Rank-and-File Organizers Who Took On Amazon
Amazon’s heavy-handed tactics triggered an explosion of organizing from inside its Staten Island warehouse, leading to a union victory.
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A Dangerous Place to Be Latino
Texas, the only state without universal workers’ comp, leads the nation in workplace injuries and deaths. It’s Latino workers on unregulated construction sites who fare the worst.
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A Generational Worker Revolt Hits Its Stride
At Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse, workers have broken through corporate America’s unified, furious opposition to giving employees a voice on the job.
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The Ironworkers Resurrecting ‘Joy Silk’
After months of complaints over basic safety standards, a majority of workers in a fabrication plant demanded union recognition, but the company refused and retaliated.
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The Memo Writer
Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, has outlined an agenda that would transform the American workplace.
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Activision Workers Fight to Unionize
The popular gaming company, in the midst of a $70 billion merger with Microsoft, is resisting a unionization effort in its Raven Software division.
