How union workers are breaking new barriers
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Watch: Bernie Sanders blasts Starbucks CEO for ‘waging’ a ‘vicious and illegal union-busting campaign’
On Wednesday morning, March 29, the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) held a hearing of Starbucks’ labor...
Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize
In December 2021, Winifer Pena Ruiz got a new job at a Chipotle in the Bronx. She was an aspiring...
Starbucks Union Workers Have a Holiday Wish: Don’t Buy Starbucks Gift Cards
Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) has a birthday on Friday, and is holding ten rallies across the country to celebrate with the...
Over 100 Starbucks Stores Go on Strike to Protest Company Union Busting
Workers for more than 100 Starbucks locations nationwide are staging a strike on the company’s “Red Cup Day” on Thursday...
Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers
After years of struggle, America’s labor unions enjoy greater public approval than at any time in more than 50 years....
Behind Starbucks union-busting stands CEO who got $940,000,000 richer during pandemic
An analysis released Wednesday shows that the multi-billionaire chief executive spearheading Starbucks’ aggressive and unlawful union-busting campaign has gotten $940...
Starbucks creating ‘culture of fear’ as it fires dozens involved in union efforts
More than 85 workers at Starbucks who were heavily involved in union organizing efforts at giant coffee chain have been fired over...
Judge Orders Starbucks To Reinstate 7 Fired Union Supporters In Memphis
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Starbucks must offer reinstatement to seven workers in Memphis who were fired...
Why Trader Joe’s employees are fighting to unionize
There was a big lie that modern corporations sold to American workers in the late 20th century and into the...
‘They don’t care about us’: US Starbucks workers allege they were fired for union activity
Nine Starbucks workers at three stores in Denver, Colorado, who were fired shortly after their stores voted to unionize allege they were...
Unionized employees are leading the fight for safer workplaces
A worker at the International Paper mill in Prattville, Alabama, was performing routine maintenance on a paper-making machine in mid-June...
Apple Store Workers In Maryland Become First To Unionize
Workers at an Apple store outside Baltimore have formed the tech giant’s first retail union in the U.S., marking another...
The Role Of Unions In Electrifying Everything
As a result of human economic activity, the planet confronts a climate emergency. Bold and conclusive solutions are required to...
Democrats Demand Funds for Underfunded Labor Board
As labor uprisings heat up and spread across the country, a group of House Democrats is calling for an increase...
Apple Store Workers in Atlanta File for Union Election
Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday,...
‘David Beats Goliath’: Workers in New York Vote to Form Amazon’s First-Ever Union in US
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant’s first-ever union in the...
Airport Workers Protest Across US Demanding ‘Living Wage’ and Right to Union
Contracted airport workers—including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, security officers, and wheelchair agents—in more than 20 U.S. cities staged coordinated demonstrations Wednesday...
Coal miners union urges Joe Manchin to support the protections BBB offers them
When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his allies defend his opposition to parts of President Joe Biden’s economic...
Country’s largest coal miners union urges Manchin to support Biden’s Build Back Better agenda
The largest coal miners union in the United States is pushing back against Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) adamant opposition toward...
‘Give Workers a Fair Shake,’ Sanders Implores CEOs in Speech to Kellogg’s Strikers
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed a Michigan rally of striking Kellogg’s union workers and their supporters, calling on all...
Why Amazon is terrified of its U.S. workers unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that a historic union vote held earlier this year among Amazon...
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...
The Amazon Union Election Is Unusual. Amazon’s Robust Anti-Union Campaign Isn’t.
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
President Joe Biden offers support to Amazon workers in a pro-union video
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Trump’s NLRB Moves to Make Unionizing ‘Nearly Impossible for Workers’
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
AFL-CIO Chief: Trump Has Opposed Every Increase in the Minimum Wage
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’ — and that should scare Trump: Robert Reich
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
How workers are winning $15 an hour: by acting like a union
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Union Workers Launch #BoycottTrump Protest After His Refusal to Negotiate at Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV – Citing federal law allowing boycotts for the purpose of forcing an employer to honor their duty...
For Republicans It’s “Anti-Labor Day”
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
Trump’s Vegas Hotel Spent Half A Million Dollars To Stop Maids From Unionizing
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump fashions himself a friend of union workers. He has bragged about having good relationships with...
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
Judge Tosses Out Scott Walker’s Unconstitutional Anti-Union Law
After long last, unions got a big win today in Wisconsin as Judge C. William Foust tossed out Governor Scott...
Why Organized Labor is More Important Than Ever
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
Millennials are Revitalizing Organized Labor
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Senate Democrats Push For Unionization Of Senate Workers
Thirty-four members of the Senate Democratic caucus including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Al Franken...
How Unions Fight Inequality and Strengthen Democracy
A new study from the International Monetary Fund concludes that unions reduce inequality and foster a healthier economy for everyone,...
