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 […]
“What is Juneteenth?” writes Virginia Myers for The American Federation of Teachers. “Raphael Bonhomme had never even heard of it until he transferred to Howard University. And now he’s teaching it to third graders. […]
“For the past few months, Republicans have been waging a ferocious political battle to end federal unemployment benefits,” writes Sonali Kolhatkar in CounterPunch, “based upon stated desires of saving […]
MSNBC President Rashida Jones said in a statement that she respected her employees’ decision to organize, but that MSNBC won’t recognize the union unless employees vote for it in a National Labor Relations […]
Staffers at 11 Southern California newspapers, including The Orange County Register, voted Friday to unionize, joining a wave of newsrooms turning to organized labor amid job cuts and uncertainty in the newspaper […]
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