“Biden’s American Rescue Plan, signed in March, put $350 billion into state, county and local governments, a big boost for public sector workers who are the heart of modern American unions,” writes Juan Williams. […]
Sixty-eight percent of Americans approve of labor unions. Though statistically similar to last year’s 65%, the current reading is the highest Gallup has measured since 71% in 1965. […]
The AFL-CIO has chosen Liz Shuler, its acting president since the death of Richard Trumka this month, to lead the federation until it holds elections next year. Shuler had served as secretary-treasurer, the AFL-CIO’s […]
Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, reviewing census data, looked at the 25 states that ended benefits early, in June. Dube found that the share of adults with a job […]
When the Metropolitan Opera’s stagehands finally returned to work last week after an agonizingly long furlough that was followed by a seven-month lockout as they negotiated a new contract with pay cuts […]
The Department of Labor recovered $78,613 in back wages for 27 butcher shop workers to resolve a wage dispute. “These essential workers deserve to take home every penny of their hard-earned wages. […]
“Employers never let a crisis go to waste,” writes Alexandra Bradbury in Labor Notes. “The [chicken processing] speedup demand was never really about Covid—a fact underlined by Trump’s attempt to make […]
A chorus of calls for mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations – and the possibility that the industry soon might make them a requirement – prompted SAG-AFTRA to adopt new guidelines for employers who want to require […]
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents over one million workers in North America in industries including parcel delivery and freight, voted to make it a priority to organize Amazon workers […]
We are at a crossroads that will determine how the nation’s workers can protect their own rights as the defense bar is working feverishly to erect barricades to the few remaining legal avenues workers have left […]
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