On Labor Day, a Major Strike Looms
A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour workweek with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis,...
View ArticleA New Dawn on Labor: 'Working People Are Reclaiming' Power
So far this year, more than 230 strikes involving upward of 320,000 workers in the United States have unfolded, along with big victories for unions. This is no fluke, but instead signs of a reawakening...
View ArticleUAW Contract Deadline Nears: 'Nobody's Coming to Save Us'
The head of the United Auto Workers union said Wednesday that a strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers is imminent, with negotiations ahead of Thursday's 11:59pm contract deadline not making the...
View ArticleBiden Makes Big Announcement on UAW Strike
The United Auto Workers strike expanded on Friday , with union workers walking out of dozens of additional parts-distribution centers across the nation amid sluggish negotiations with Ford, General...
View ArticleOn Tuesday, an 'Absolutely Unprecedented' Move by Biden
President Biden's decision to stand alongside United Auto Workers picketers Tuesday on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers underscores an allegiance to labor unions that appears to be...
View ArticleNext Strike Begins, With 75K Workers in 5 States
Picketing began Wednesday morning at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 health care workers went on strike in Virginia, California, and three other states over wages and staffing shortages,...
View ArticleTeachers in This State's Largest City Hit the Picket Line
Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon's largest city. Concerns over large class sizes,...
View ArticleAfter Months of 'Tense Negotiations,' Good News for Vegas
Over seven months of tense negotiations, mandatory daily room cleanings underscored the big issues that Las Vegas union hotel workers were fighting to address in their first contracts since the...
View ArticleToday at Starbucks, a 'Red Cup Rebellion'
Thousands of workers at more than 200 US Starbucks stores plan to walk off the job Thursday in what organizers say is the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company's stores....
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