Today on TAP: With organizing campaigns and strikes on the rise, Congress finally proposes to increase funding for the NLRB—for the first time since 2014.
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Unionized Starbucks Stores Go on a Weekend Strike
The action is over selective closures of union stores, as well as retaliatory behavior against unionized employees.
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Splitting the Strikers at UC
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
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What’s Wrong at the Times
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
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Bernie to Biden: You Can Give Rail Workers Sick Days
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
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What the UC Strikers Need to Do Differently
Today on TAP: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.
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The Rail Impasse: Your Questions Answered
This is about Wall Street demands for giant profits. Bad labor law gives Democrats few options, but there remain steps that President Biden can take.
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Revolution at the UAW
Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.
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Why I’m on Strike at the University of California
On how to stop a history of recurrent exploitation
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The Academic Proles on the Barricades
Today on TAP: Some progress in the University of California strike, but nowhere near enough. And by the way, where’s Gavin?
