Many public-interest attorneys also represent corporations against their workers.
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Posted inWorking in America
In California, Child Care Providers Vote to Unionize
43,000 workers who care for the kids of state-subsidized poor families have gone union in the nation’s largest organizing victory in many years.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Deeply Entrenched Corruption Will Hinder USMCA
The case of an imprisoned and then exiled labor attorney in Mexico speaks to the continued oppression of workers by multinational corporations.
Posted inTAP
Who Should Say When a Workplace Is Safe? The Workers, That’s Who.
Today on TAP: L.A. County empowers workers’ councils
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why Mainstream Unions Shouldn’t Represent the Cops
Bargaining for the police and for African Americans is an exercise in self-negation.
Posted inWorking in America
Reaching Out to the White Working Class
Working America—the AFL-CIO’s campaign among non-union swing voters—has long prioritized discussions on voters’ doorsteps. This year, it may have to find new approaches.
Posted inWorking in America
Cleveland’s Plain Dealer: 50 Years of Union Busting
The Plain Dealer union didn’t die because of industry changes—Advance Publications killed it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Revolt of the Judges
The Trump administration has ordered immigration court judges to reject more applicants and speed up trials—and it wants to bust the judges’ union.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Great American Pastime: Squeezing Workers
At all levels, baseball owners are using the COVID-19 crisis to force long-desired concessions on everyone involved with the sport.
