Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
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Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years. A New Bill Could Change That.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act, pending in the Senate, could compel employers to bargain with their unionized workers.
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Locked-Out Refinery Workers Say BP Is Trying to ‘Starve Us,’ Crush Union
In Whiting, Indiana, 800 workers have been locked out for four months, and they say the survival of their union is at stake.
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The Court Equivocates on Whom to Deport
Birthright citizenship appears to be OK, but refugees from ‘shithole countries’ gotta go.
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In Massachusetts Today, Uber and Lyft Drivers Went Union
Under a recently enacted state law, independent contractors can bargain collectively—and now, they will.
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Amazon and Trump’s NLRB: So Happy Together!
Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.
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Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints
The agency tasked with protecting workers is making it harder for them to submit complaints and letting employers break the law.
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Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
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Starbucks Workers Tell Bosses: No Contract, No Coffee
Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food companies are demonstrating their resolve.
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Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union
Like several successful campaigns before it, Step Up organizes workers to improve their jobs, but stops short of calling for a union. The approach, “premajority unionism,” is a natural fit for places like the South, with histories of public hostility to unions.