Despite facing higher hurdles than their U.S. counterparts, they’re in the vanguard of campus worker activism.
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The Emerging Democratic Support for Teachers Unions
A presidential forum in Pittsburgh last week cemented a unified endorsement of public education—at least in public.
Posted inWorking in America
The Little Union That Could … Shut Down This Week’s Democratic Debate
Los Angeles’s hotel and restaurant local is no giant, but it has blazed trails for the entire American labor movement.
Posted inWorking in America
Killing NAFTA Softly
Despite continual rumors that a deal on the update to the North American trade agreement is imminent, House Democrats and Trump are far apart.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Filipino Workers Who Refused to Break a U.S. Strike Now Jailed for Union Activism
The Duterte regime plants ‘evidence’ on call center union members who declined to scab when U.S. workers walked off the job.
Posted inWorking in America
Divided Auto Workers Vote to Accept GM Contract
Rank-and-file members of the UAW approve the agreement, but with major opposition from workers whose plants may yet be closed.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Why We Wear Red on Thursdays’
Unlike other unions over the last 30 years, CWA has continued to strike—and continued to win. Their enduring preparedness starts with something as simple as wearing red.
Posted inWorking in America
Threatening to Disrupt, D.C. Janitors Win Better Working Conditions
The victory sets a standard that their union hopes to match as contracts expire up and down the East Coast.
Posted inWorking in America
Sanders and Warren Take Aim at Taft-Hartley
Both candidates favor repealing much of the law that slammed the brakes on unions’ growth.
Posted inWorking in America
Where Are the Workers When We Talk About the Future of Work?
CEOs, Silicon Valley investors, and techno-academics talk to themselves about new technologies, but workers must have a say in these debates as well.
