A mixed tentative agreement with no guarantees against outsourcing has some workers vowing to fight on rather than ratify the pact.
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UAW Members’ Resolve Stiffens as GM Strike Continues
The longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970 is reawakening a spirit among union members about what it means to take collective action.
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Over 49,000 GM Workers Head Out on Strike
The biggest Auto Workers strike since the financial crisis could serve as a renewal for a union battered by corruption scandals.
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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.
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Will Trump’s Labor Board Say Workers Have No Right to Float a Balloon?
The NLRB’s top attorney is gunning for unions’ inflatable rat—but may miss and hit the restrictions on workers’ right to free speech.
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The Return of the Strike
This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?
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On Strike in the Windy City
Pictures from the brewing standoff between Chicago teachers and Rahm Emanuel.
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Is the Strike Dead?
The workers who lost the 1892 Homestead Strike would find the situation today all too familiar: employers using strike replacements to destroy labor’s most potent weapon.