Labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon explains how the union drive succeeded and what’s next.
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The Accidental Revolution
Democrats got one thing right—the American Rescue Plan. It might just realign U.S. politics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Life in the Real Economy
Two new studies—one on poverty wages, one on the declining share of revenues going to workers—are at once authoritative and mind-boggling.
Posted inTAP
The Restoration of Workers’ Legal Rights Has Begun
Today on TAP: A case just put before the NLRB asks it to overturn past anti-worker rulings.
Posted inWorking in America
What Amazon and Starbucks Don’t Let Us Know
There are gaping holes in what the law requires employers to reveal about their campaigns to keep their workers from unionizing.
Posted inWorking in America
By Helping Self-Organized Workers, Labor Can Save Itself
Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.
Posted inTAP
Abruzzo Again!
Today on TAP: The NLRB’s general counsel asks the Board to ban ‘captive audience’ meetings, in which workers are compelled to hear employers’ anti-union rants.
Posted inWorking in America
What Amazon Will Do Next. What Unions Must Do Next.
The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tug Life
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
Posted inWorking in America
The Rank-and-File Organizers Who Took On Amazon
Amazon’s heavy-handed tactics triggered an explosion of organizing from inside its Staten Island warehouse, leading to a union victory.