Despite facing higher hurdles than their U.S. counterparts, they’re in the vanguard of campus worker activism.
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How About Some NAFTA Rights for U.S. Workers?
The Trump administration’s efforts on behalf of Mexican labor belie an aggressive anti-worker project at home.
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Sanders and Warren Take Aim at Taft-Hartley
Both candidates favor repealing much of the law that slammed the brakes on unions’ growth.
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How Grad Students Can Unionize Despite Trump’s NLRB
Last Friday, in one of its least unexpected diktats, the National Labor Relations Board, now controlled by Trump appointees, indicated that it’s going to revoke the right of graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities to bargain collectively. (Whether grad students can unionize at public universities is up to the […]
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The Trump NLRB’s Anti-Labor Day
The National Labor Relations Board is not just changing rules but reversing long-standing precedents.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Trumpistas Seek to Deflate Labor’s Friend
The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s NLRB Is Picking a Fight with Graduate Students
And graduate students are looking to fight back.
Posted inWorking in America
With Uber’s Stock Tanking, Trump’s NLRB Rides to Its Rescue
The Board chose today to release a month-old memo saying Uber drivers can’t unionize.
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With Uber’s Stock Tanking, Trump’s NLRB Rides to Its Rescue.
“Uber Has Poisoned an IPO Market That Was Sick Anyway,” a Wall Street Journal headline proclaimed this morning. When the market closed Monday, two days after the company had first listed its stock, Uber’s shares had declined by 18 percent from its IPO listing of $45. To deter Uber’s owners from hurling themselves off […]
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To Block One Decertification Vote, a Teachers Union May Undo Charter Teachers’ Right to Unionize Nationally
By bringing its case to Trump’s NLRB, New York’s teachers union could threaten charter teachers’ rights in a host of states.