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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Posted inWorking in America
Election Deniers in the C-Suites
Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.
Posted inWorking in America
Caltech’s Postdocs and Grad Workers Seek Union Recognition
Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia.
Posted inWorking in America
How Amazon’s Outsourcing Facilitates Union Busting
Employees at the company’s Queens warehouse actually work for a third-party subcontractor. This fissured workplace is an obstacle to collective-bargaining rights.
Posted inWorking in America
A Gaming Company’s Workers Unionized. But the Union Busting Didn’t End There.
TCGplayer, a subsidiary of eBay, has stalled negotiations on a first contract, despite the union winning an election in March.
Posted inWorking in America
Federal Agencies Can Disable Employer Debt TRAPs
Advocacy groups offer a road map for how agencies can use existing authority to ban contracts that force workers to pay employers if they leave their job.
Posted inWorking in America
The Big Barrier to the UAW’s Non-Union Auto Plant Drive
It’s U.S. labor law, which allows companies to union-bust and endlessly delay consequences. Case in point: a Tesla worker illegally fired six years ago and still not back on the job.
Posted inWorking in America
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.
Posted inTAP
How to Roll the Union On
Today on TAP: Building on workers’ historic victories in auto plants, delivery trucks, hospitals, campuses, and (maybe) Hollywood
Posted inLaw and Justice
Lawyers, Not Persuaders
The anti-labor law firm Littler Mendelson’s reputation is a premier example of the limitations in existing labor law.
