The strike has put 1 percent of the city’s workforce on the picket lines, and they want more than higher pay and smaller class sizes—they want a better life for their communities.
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Will the UAW Vote Down the GM Contract?
A mixed tentative agreement with no guarantees against outsourcing has some workers vowing to fight on rather than ratify the pact.
Posted inWorking in America
Hard Lessons From the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse
In an industry with lax enforcement of safety standards and where the companies in charge are let off the hook, worker deaths are all too common.
Posted inWorking in America
California Allows Child Care Workers to Unionize
Newly signed legislation gives bargaining rights to 40,000 workers—presaging the largest unionization drive in many years.
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D.C. Janitors Fight to Keep Up With Soaring Costs of Living
Up and down the East Coast, SEIU’s janitorial contracts are expiring. D.C.’s janitors expect a better one—and if they don’t get it, they’ll strike.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Help 800,000 Workers Join a Union
One policy could facilitate a voice for the fastest-growing, and one of the lowest-paid, occupations in the U.S.
Posted inTAP
How Grad Students Can Unionize Despite Trump’s NLRB
Last Friday, in one of its least unexpected diktats, the National Labor Relations Board, now controlled by Trump appointees, indicated that it’s going to revoke the right of graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities to bargain collectively. (Whether grad students can unionize at public universities is up to the […]
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UAW Members’ Resolve Stiffens as GM Strike Continues
The longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970 is reawakening a spirit among union members about what it means to take collective action.
Posted inTAP
Why the Striking Autoworkers Need to Win Big
Anyone who understands the need for the United States to reduce its stratospheric levels of economic inequality and to give its workers a boost into the middle class has to be rooting for the United Auto Workers members on strike now at General Motors. Those workers sacrificed a good share of their incomes to help […]
