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BREAKING: Draft Legislation in New York Would Put Gig Workers into Toothless 'Unions' »

May 21, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

An effort backed by the New York State AFL-CIO would create a new bargaining scheme for app-based workers without addressing the question of whether or not these workers are legally “employees.”

Can a Driver Uprising Make Food Apps Deliver? »

May 20, 2021 | Luis Feliz Leon

Jonán Mancilla is standing on a Manhattan street corner under the awning of a shuttered salon, handing out stickers to his fellow food delivery drivers.

Conservative Talking Heads Love Coal Miners—Until They Go on Strike »

May 19, 2021 | Jacob Morrison

A supposed defense of coal miners, their families, their way of life, and their culture has been front and center of the Republican agenda ever since the push for decarbonization began.
A group marches down the street behind a banner reading "UC Scam Diego: Affordable Housing Now."

Out of the Pandemic: UC Student Researchers Emerge United »

May 18, 2021 | Ahmed Akhtar and Jess Banks

Graduate student employees have fought for decades to form unions.
Picketers (Black and white, men and women) marching in front of a post office. Signs say "U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale," "Postmaster DeJoy Is Destroying Our Post Office," "Save Our Public Postal Service: Forever Essential." Also visible are copies of the flyer "Dump DeJoy and His 10-Year Plan."

Detroit Postal Workers Push to Dump DeJoy and His Ten-Year Plan »

May 12, 2021 | Jane Duggan

Last fall, the Detroit local of the Postal Workers (APWU) stepped out with a rally and flyer calling on workers to defend democracy and warning of a possible coup.
Masked people (Black and white, men and women) holding signs. Most prominent is a handwritten sign: "#Save the Post Office." Preprinted signs say "Stand with Postal Workers" and "Senators, do the right thing! Save USPS"

The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail Is a Fig Leaf for Privatization »

May 7, 2021 | Dennis O’Neil

The battle over the future of the Postal Service, which was a focus of American political life last year, is still on.
Duke University Press Workers Union posing in matching black T-shirts on grass.

Duke University Press Workers Organize with NewsGuild »

May 4, 2021 | Joe Stapleton

Update May 5: The Duke University Press Workers Union officially filed for an election on May 3.—Eds
Crowd of teachers and supporters protesting in Amman in front of building, some with raised arms, on July 29 2020

Jordanian Teachers Union Leaves Behind Legacy of Wins »

May 3, 2021 | Ty Joplin

One of the Middle East’s most active and militant labor unions has come and gone.


The Jordan Teachers’ Syndicate (JTS) was outlawed and dissolved by the government in July 2020. It represented around 140,000 teachers in the small country of 10 million people.

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Steward's Corner: Outwitting Management’s Anti-Union Games »

April 29, 2021 | Terrence T. McDonald

Amazon’s anti-union campaign in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse shined a national spotlight on the tactics that companies deploy to fight union drives.

Can Postal Vehicles Help Us Fight Climate Change? »

April 28, 2021 | David Yao

The question of whether the Postal Service acts as a business or as a public service is playing out once again—this time in the discussion over fighting climate change.

TV Review: The Class Struggle at Superstore »

April 27, 2021 | Eric Dirnbach

The hit NBC show Superstore ran for six seasons before being cancelled after star America Ferrera departed.

Don’t Compromise on Farmworker Rights »

April 26, 2021 | Saurav Sarkar

I covered the immigrant “mega marches” as a freelance reporter in 2006.
Amazon van exiting a building, about to turn onto a city street, with pedestrian crossing in front

Interview: 'Things Shouldn't Be Like This': Why One Amazon Driver Walked Out on Easter »

April 23, 2021 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

Working conditions at Amazon have been under a spotlight for months—not only for workers in the company’s warehouses but also for its delivery drivers, who face

A group of people stands outside the St. Paul Labor Center, fists raised. It is dark out, and they are backlit.

The National Guard Came to St. Paul to Repress Protests. We Kicked Them Out of Labor’s Hall. »

April 21, 2021 | Anders Bloomquist

Within days of the police killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright, the streets of the Twin Cities metro area were once again filled with National Guard units.
Workers—in their soiled work clothes—line up to vote at a table in a 1941 union election.

Lessons from Labor History for Organizing Amazon »

April 19, 2021 | Toni Gilpin

The results of the recent unionization election at Amazon’s Bessemer facility were, to put it mildly, disappointing: 738 votes in favor of the union; 1,798 against; with turnout (perhaps as significant a marker) lackluster at just over 50 percent.

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