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California Allows Child Care Workers to Unionize

by Rachel M. Cohen October 4, 2019

Newly signed legislation gives bargaining rights to 40,000 workers—presaging the largest unionization drive in many years.

Working in America

D.C. Janitors Fight to Keep Up With Soaring Costs of Living

by Isaac Scher October 3, 2019

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.

Day One Agenda

Help 800,000 Workers Join a Union

by Rachel M. Cohen September 27, 2019

One policy could facilitate a voice for the fastest-growing, and one of the lowest-paid, occupations in the U.S.

TAP

How Grad Students Can Unionize Despite Trump’s NLRB

by Harold Meyerson September 25, 2019

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 […]

Working in America

UAW Members’ Resolve Stiffens as GM Strike Continues

by Mike Elk September 24, 2019

The longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970 is reawakening a spirit among union members about what it means to take collective action.

TAP

Why the Striking Autoworkers Need to Win Big

by Harold Meyerson September 17, 2019

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 […]