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North Carolina Nurses Seek Their First Union »

May 27, 2020 | Jonathan Michels

UPDATE, September 18: In a mail-in ballot election, registered nurses at Mission Hospital voted 70 percent in favor of joining National Nurses United.

They Won a New Union While Working from Home »

May 27, 2020 | Annie Martin

When the Orlando Sentinel’s newsroom employees won our election in May with 81 percent voting for The NewsGuild, the organizing committee had not seen our co-workers in person for nearly two months. The election was conducted entirely by mail.

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Workers Will Take the Brunt of This Recession—Just Like the Last One—Unless We Say No »

May 27, 2020 | Samantha Winslow

One reason today's horrific recession feels so familiar is that we're still digging out of the last one.

Nurses in Michigan protesting lack of PPE and calling for the nationalization of the healthcare system

In a Pandemic, Finding New and Old Ways To Fight New and Old Foes »

May 26, 2020 | Jane Slaughter

Workers this spring were forced to find new ways to assert their rights when faced with a deadly foe and employers indifferent to their lives.

VIDEO: Ford Workers Shut Down the Line at Dearborn Truck Plant »

May 22, 2020 | Chris Brooks

A video taken by an auto worker and obtained exclusively by Labor Notes shows a rowdy and chaotic scene inside Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan Truck Plant on Wednesday as workers refused to work after a co-worker tested positive for COVID-19.

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Help Us Save the Postal Service »

May 22, 2020 | Jamie Partridge

Read more here about the crisis in the postal service.

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Can We Save the Postal Service? »

May 22, 2020 | Alexandra Bradbury

The U.S. Postal Service is in deep trouble. The postal Board of Governors has asked Congress for $75 billion to keep the agency afloat; without it, the outgoing Postmaster General said, USPS could “run out of cash” by September.

Follow the Money: Employers Are Behind the Rush to Reopen »

May 21, 2020 | Chris Brooks

The federal government squandered the time the states spent in lockdown. We still face a national shortage of COVID-19 test kits and PPE and there is no nationwide testing or contact tracing program.

You've Got the 'Rona But You Fail the Test »

May 19, 2020 | Sonya Huber

What will happen to all the people who catch the coronavirus but never get a positive test? As states gear up to send workers back to work, the number of infections will skyrocket.

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Hundreds of Apple Workers on Strike in Washington »

May 18, 2020 | David Bacon

Since this article was written, apple packinghouse workers at two more companies have joined the strike: at Hansen Fruit and Columbia Reach. Six worksites in Yakima County have now seen production shut down. The county has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases on the West Coast.

How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis »

May 15, 2020 | Alejandro Reuss

Part 2 of a joint series in Labor Notes and Dollars & Sense on the economics of the coronavirus crisis. Part 1, “Not Simply a 'Natural Disaster,'” is here.

New Postmaster General Is an Expert Job-Killer »

May 15, 2020 | Joe Piette

Much of the criticism of new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has centered on his $2 million in contributions to the Trump campaign and other Republican causes since 2016. DeJoy is in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte.

Not Simply a ‘Natural Disaster’ »

May 14, 2020 | Alejandro Reuss

Part 1 of a joint series in Labor Notes and Dollars & Sense on the economics of the coronavirus crisis. Part 2, "How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis," is here.

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Call Center Workers Strike for Telework in Portugal »

May 13, 2020 | Isabel Roque

Portuguese call center workers forced to come to work during the pandemic struck in March, demanding to switch to teleworking at home without loss of pay.