A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns
SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.
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These Teachers Will Have to Cross Party Lines to Get a Union
Can educators in California’s largest nonunion public school district—in a county that flipped to Trump—upend a 65-year tradition?
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President Musk Declares War on American Workers
MAGA voters thought they elected an America First government. Tech billionaires think they are running the show.
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The Amazon Strike, the Bezos-Musk-Trump Dinner, and the O’Brien Bet
With their more than half a trillion dollars, Bezos and Musk join forces to make sure Trump doesn’t support even a scintilla of worker power.
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These Nurses Got a Union—but Say They Can’t Get a Contract Without a Strike
Six hundred New Orleans nurses join a national surge in pre-contract strikes.
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Why Workers Deserted a Neoliberal Democratic Party
Herewith, a union leader’s suggestions on why they left and how to win them back.
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Subminimum Wages Stay on the Books in Massachusetts
A loss for fair wages, a win for the restaurant industry
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Labor in the Trump Years
Trump, Musk & Co. are gunning for unions. Herewith some strategies for survival.
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Establishing Workers’ Right Not to Hear Bosses’ Propaganda
The NLRB rules that management may not compel employees to attend its anti-union meetings.
