How employers punish workers for forming unions
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Las Vegas, NV – Citing federal law allowing boycotts for the purpose of forcing an employer to honor their duty...
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump fashions himself a friend of union workers. He has bragged about having good relationships with...
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
After long last, unions got a big win today in Wisconsin as Judge C. William Foust tossed out Governor Scott...
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Thirty-four members of the Senate Democratic caucus including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Al Franken...
A new study from the International Monetary Fund concludes that unions reduce inequality and foster a healthier economy for everyone,...
In a rare move for a major presidential candidate, Democratic hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined a picket line with...
Republicans love to try out new attacks on new groups of American citizens, but when push comes to shove, they’ll...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 25, 2015 · Last modified November 9, 2015
A group of Target pharmacy employees in Brooklyn, NY voted to unionize, making them the first union in Target’s century-long...
The nation’s growing support for unions is a huge sign of encouragement for those who have watched the attempts to...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 30, 2015 · Last modified November 9, 2015
McDonald’s, Burger King and every other company that relies on a franchise business model just suffered the legal setback they’ve...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 19, 2015 · Last modified November 9, 2015
More evidence that America is becoming more liberal can be found in a new poll that revealed growing public support...
Last year, Vanessa Pettit and many of her colleagues at the Guitar Center store in Independence, Missouri, declared their intention...
The home health aide in scrubs pushing a client’s wheelchair up the ramp from street to sidewalk may appear to...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 30, 2015 · Last modified November 13, 2015
When is disruption not just a super cool buzz word but something that’s actually, well, disruptive? That would be when...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 27, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
After impounding the ballots for more than a year, federal officials last week tallied the votes in an acrimonious union...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 10, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
by onepercenttakers · Published February 25, 2015 · Last modified November 19, 2015
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 29, 2014 · Last modified November 21, 2015
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
For the third Black Friday running, America’s largest retailer is expected to face labor protests at locations across the country....
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.