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Nurses in rural northern Michigan made history August 9-10 when we won labor’s biggest organizing victory since “right to work” took effect in the state in 2013.
The results astounded everyone who thought they knew the Missouri labor movement: more than 300,000 signatures to repeal “right to work.”
The richest university in the world, with an endowment of $36 billion, is asking the National Labor Relations Board to change how union elections are run. Harvard University sees itself in the vanguard of resistance to the Trump administration.
Bernie Sanders introduced a Medicare for All bill on September 13 in the Senate, backed by 15 co-sponsors.
UPDATE, February 2018: As we feared when we published the below article in September 2017, the Trump NLRB wasted little time before overruling the Lutheran Heritage standard.
We asked Labor Notes staffers and friends which labor books are on their nightstands these days. Here's a sample.
How do you say “troublemaker” in Spanish?
In the 1800s unions and cooperatives were part of the same movement. Today once again, unions are collaborating with cooperatives to save jobs, create new ones, and organize new members.
It's a truism that for unions to preserve their gains they must organize the South—but as the recent failures at Volkswagen,
When confronted with a concessionary demand at the bargaining table, what if you filled the room with rank-and-file members? What would happen?
For the third time in eight years, public sector workers in Connecticut have voted for concessions. State employees have sacrificed a total of $7 billion to close budget deficits in 2009, 2011, and now 2017.
Message to the airlines: you can’t have it all. Control of the skies and aviation safety is a public service.
When the Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU) was just a year old and growing, the transit authority announced the biggest service cut since the 1980s.
Imagine being arrested and detained for months just for showing up to work.
In July 2016, personal trainers in Toronto at GoodLife Fitness, Canada's largest fitness company, voted to unionize with the Canada Council of Workers United, forming the first fitness sector union in North America.
