The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
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What the UC Strikers Need to Do Differently
Today on TAP: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.
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Coalition Asks: Where Is Biden’s NLRB?
There were high hopes when a Democratic majority returned to decide labor law, but more than a year in, critical rulings have not been issued, a group of labor lawyers and organizers say.
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Workers on Solar’s Front Lines
Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.
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The Rail Impasse: Your Questions Answered
This is about Wall Street demands for giant profits. Bad labor law gives Democrats few options, but there remain steps that President Biden can take.
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Revolution at the UAW
Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.
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Why I’m on Strike at the University of California
On how to stop a history of recurrent exploitation
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The Best Tax System on Earth
What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands
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A New Union Rises in the South
The Union of Southern Service Workers is organizing food service, retail, and health care workers through direct action against low wages and historical racism.
