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Organized labor could learn a thing or two from the recent activism of young immigrants.
Until now, disunity had dogged the postal unions. Management used the separate bargaining to push concessions onto them one by one, and the unions worked at cross purposes in their lobbying too.
A threat to strike over grievances won victories for student workers at the University of California Santa Cruz on workload and two-tier.
Usually elected officials are reluctant to buck the biggest employer in town, but in Richmond, California, the mayor and the city council majority have taken a bold approach with Chevron, suing the oil giant for harming local citizens.
Browse the full schedule and get ready to learn, share, and recharge in Chicago April 4-6.
An activist slate pledging to reenergize teachers to fight attacks on public schools has just won leadership of the second-largest teachers local in the country, in Los Angeles.
Missing from the film is the spark of slave revolt that Solomon Northup portrayed so vividly in his book. He predicted "a terrible day of vengeance, when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”
In Chicago, worker center organizers and advocates for rape victims have come together to combat sexual violence in the workplace.
Our new book, How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers, shows how activists transformed their union. This excerpt tells a little about their internal organizing.
While the federal government mulls a $10.10 minimum wage, Seattle is poised for $15. And in case the city council compromises too far, labor and community groups are preparing to get the job done by ballot initiative.
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 10 marzo, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of March 10, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.
Edward Albee's play "The Death of Bessie Smith" portrays a segregated hospital in 1937. Staged inside an empty Brooklyn hospital wing, it's drawing attention to the "medical apartheid" hospital workers say persists today.
An inspiring new short film is a tool to introduce younger women to the labor movement.
Hundreds of immigrants at a Tacoma, Washington, detention center began a hunger strike Friday in response to substandard living conditions at the hands of the for-profit center’s overseers.
Oops! Evaluation scores used to determine which teachers are retained, rewarded, and even fired were miscalculated, D.C. teachers learned.