In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together.
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The Auto Workers Go All In
By devoting $40 million to its campaign to organize non-union auto plants, the UAW is challenging not just corporate America but also labor’s status quo.
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What (Not Who) Will Follow Mary Kay Henry?
The groundbreaking president of SEIU is stepping down, at a time when the possibilities for organizing American workers may be rising.
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Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, face a coordinated attack on their organizing, but have learned from two prior losses.
Posted inTAP
Pro-Union Joe and Grad Student Misgivings
Today on TAP: Some UAW teaching assistants object to their union’s endorsement of Biden. That’s understandable but idiotic.
Posted inTAP
The Momentum From the UAW’s Victorious Strike Continues
Today on TAP: In Alabama and Tennessee, workers are signing up with the union at VW, Hyundai, and Mercedes.
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Biden, the UAW, and the Teamsters
Today on TAP: Those two unions and that president (if re-elected) hold the greatest promise for reviving working-class power.
Posted inPolitics
Oklahoma Senator Driven to Violent Frenzy by Teamsters President
A Capitol Hill hearing highlights how much labor unions have won this year, as well as the Republicans who are furious over it.
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How Autoworkers’ Democratic Tactics Reversed a Humiliating Loss
As part of the UAW’s tentative agreement with Stellantis, an idled factory in Belvidere, Illinois, will restart production.
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UAW Makes the Brave New Economy a Lot More Worker-Friendly
GM’s promise to cover its EV battery factories under the national master agreement gives workers a share of the gains from going electric.
