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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Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico
1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
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Biden’s Agencies Rule: One for the Workers, One Not
Today on TAP: The NLRB goes after employer lawbreaking, while the FTC—just this once?—disregards workers’ concerns.
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Can Progressives Govern From the Minority?
Greg Casar, a former city council member from Austin, Texas, says yes.
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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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Coalition Asks: Where Is Biden’s NLRB?
There were high hopes when a Democratic majority returned to decide labor law, but more than a year in, critical rulings have not been issued, a group of labor lawyers and organizers say.
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Workers on Solar’s Front Lines
Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.
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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.
