The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of millions of workers to the nation—and to the workers themselves. But are unions seizing this opportunity to build a new kind of power?
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Posted inWorking in America
How One Local Union Is Doubling Wages for America’s Airport Workers
In a time of labor stagnation, a union has committed massive resources to workplace and political organizing—and has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of low-wage workers.
Posted inWorking in America
Like Uber, but for Gig Worker Organizing
Drivers and delivery personnel for app-based employers keep getting squeezed. Now they’re fighting back.
Posted inWorking in America
Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making
While European workers have helped shape their nations’ coronavirus policies, most of their U.S. counterparts have no unions to give them a voice.
Posted inCoronavirus
Union Wins $3 Billion to Protect Airport Workers
SEIU persuades Congress to dedicate funds in the stimulus legislation to keeping 100,000 airport workers solvent.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fund the Front Lines
Despite more than a decade of underfunding public health and safety, those workers have stepped up to meet the crisis. Government must help them with emergency and long-term support.
Posted inWorking in America
The Postal Workers Strike, 50 Years Later
Two hundred thousand militant postal workers forced the Nixon administration to grant them labor rights. Today, the Trump administration is attempting to take them away.
Posted inWorking in America
The Coronavirus Is Jump-Starting Union Organizing at Delta
Organizers started a union drive for flight attendants at Delta last November. Uncertainty about the pandemic is stoking a desire among workers for labor protections.
Posted inTAP
More on the Culinary Workers and Medicare for All
Today on TAP: The practical challenge of UNITE HERE’s health plan
