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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America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.