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Rank-and-File Power Is Essential to Rebuilding the Labor Movement »

September 7, 2022 | Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle

Union democracy—defined as rank-and-file power—is the essential ingredient for restoring the power of the labor movement.

Wisconsin Nurses Set to Strike, As Employer Claims It's Banned from Bargaining »

September 7, 2022 | David Nack and Michael Childers

Nurses at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, will strike for three days next week. The strike comes in response to the hospital administration's continuing refusal to recognize the nurses’ union and growing frustration over compensation issues and deteriorating working conditions.
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Viewpoint: Confronting the Nature of Work »

September 1, 2022 | Michael D. Yates

The word “work” has been associated historically with “compulsion, torment, affliction, and persecution.” Why is this? The answer lies in our economic system.

Rail Workers Reject Contract Recommendations, Say They're Ready to Strike »

September 1, 2022 | Joe DeManuelle-Hall

Railroad unions continue their slow creep along the path to a settlement—or strike—in contract negotiations covering 115,000 workers. On August 16, the Presidential Emergency Board convened by President Biden issued its recommendations for a settlement.

Mexican Auto Parts Workers Win a Union of Their Own, Defeating Company Attempts to Impose One »

September 1, 2022 | Luis Feliz Leon | Dan DiMaggio

Three miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, auto parts workers in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, voted yesterday to join an independent union, defeating company attempts to usher in an employer-friendly, politically c
A group of Chipotle workers and supporters gather around a coffee table at a house to discuss their campaign.

How Zoomers Organized the First Chipotle Union »

August 31, 2022 | Jonah Furman

Chipotle workers in Lansing, Michigan, formed the fast food chain’s first recognized union in the U.S., voting 11-3 on August 25 to join Teamsters Local 243.

How Intermodal Yard Workers Doubled Their Pay »

August 30, 2022 | Caitlyn Clark

Like many of his co-workers, Levi Kamel was nearly ready to quit. But before he did, he decided to try one thing: win a union.
Two young women in Starbucks Workers United T-shirts stand outdoors, holding up cardboard signs, mouths open to yell or chant.

Interview: Starbucks Workers Are in the Fight of Their Lives for a Contract »

August 25, 2022 | Daisy Pitkin

Starbucks Workers United just marked the one-year anniversary of its first organizing committee meeting. In that time, the new union has won union elections at 225 stores, covering more than 6,000 workers.

Trader Joe's Union Campaign Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back »

August 25, 2022 | Jonah Furman

Trader Joe’s workers in Minneapolis won their union in a landslide vote August 12, making theirs the second store to go with the new, independent Trader Joe’s United. The win raises the question of whether the grocer, with its 530 locations and progressive image, could be the next Starbucks.

Young workers in Starbucks aprons and SBWU logo shirts stand in a semicircle, all in calm postures mostly with hands clasped at rest in front of them. In the center is the manager in a white shirt, talking into a cell phone.

'Milk Was Still Steaming, We Just Walked Out': Scenes from a Summer of Strikes in a South Carolina Starbucks »

August 22, 2022 | Aneil Tripathi

Starbucks barista was Aneil Tripathi’s first job, at 17. Now 19 and a shift supervisor, he helped organize a union in his store in Anderson, South Carolina.
A group of black and white workers wearing purple SEIU T-shirts march.

Nine For-Profit Nursing Homes Pull A Simultaneous Strike—And Another Is on the Way »

August 22, 2022 | Angela Bunay

One thousand workers at nine for-profit nursing homes in Western New York held one-day strikes July 12 and 13. It’s the first time that 1199SEIU (United Healthcare Workers East) has held a coordinated strike across different nursing home employers in the region.
Crowd in UPS brown uniforms stands outdoors looking resolute, some holding signs. One sign visible reads "Make UPS Deliver!"

UPS Says No to Air Conditioning, But Here’s a Surveillance Camera »

August 18, 2022 | Elliot Lewis and Matt Leichenger

On June 25, 24-year-old UPS driver Esteban Chavez Jr. collapsed in the back of his truck while working, and died. Temperatures in the Los Angeles area that day were in the high 90s.
Strikers in red march with printed picket signs. In the center is a Black woman with a serious expression. Her sign reads "Kaiser, don't deny my patients mental health care. KaiserDontDeny.org."

Kaiser Clinicians Strike against ‘Separate and Unequal’ Mental Health Care »

August 16, 2022 | Cal Winslow

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike.
Eleven smiling people pose outside. Some are holding up silkscreened T-shirts with Tender Claws union logo showing a claw. Many are raising one fist, and one is pointing at another person in the group.

Video Game and Tech Workers ‘Drop the U-Word’ »

August 12, 2022 | Robin LoBuglio

At noon on July 17, my co-workers and I at the video game studio Tender Claws stepped away from our desks.

Immigrant Detainees Strike Over $1-a-Day Pay, Working Conditions »

August 9, 2022 | Alejandra Quintero

At two federal detention centers in California, more than 50 immigrant workers are on strike over unsafe working conditions and low wages.

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