A recent proposal to ban noncompete agreements begins to reverse the erosion of worker power in America.
unions
Will SCOTUS Revoke the Right to Strike?
A case argued this week could give worker-phobic Republican justices a chance to force workers to stay on the job.
House GOP Tries to Cancel Congressional Staff Unions
But it’s not clear whether they can do it.
The Labor Board Gets a Raise
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
